Larson, Anna Skolnik, Ava Bhatti, Alexandra Mitrovich, Rachel
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Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
Routine vaccination has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with 37% of countries reporting continuing disruptions to vaccination services into 2021. These programs have been faced with the challenges of achieving high vaccination coverage rates (VCRs), as well as identifying and vaccinating those who missed recommended doses since the...
Montalvo Zurbia-Flores, Gerardo Rollier, Christine S Reyes-Sandoval, Arturo
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Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
Despite the existence of a highly efficient yellow fever vaccine, yellow fever reemergence throughout Africa and the Americas has put 900 million people in 47 countries at risk of contracting the disease. Although the vaccine has been key to controlling yellow fever epidemics, its live-attenuated nature comes with a range of contraindications that ...
Kelly, Clare B Hemat, Shafiqullah Naziri, Malalai Yousufi, Khaksar Edmond, Karen M
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Archives of disease in childhood
To understand the reach of the community health worker (CHW) programme in remote and non-remote districts of Afghanistan. Using data collected from the Ministry of Public Health's National Health Management Information System, we conducted a population-based study from 2018 to 2019 in 401 districts across 34 provinces of Afghanistan. We assessed th...
Lempert, Lauren Kass Bialous, Stella Glantz, Stanton
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Tobacco control
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued orders in July 2020 authorising Philip Morris Products S.A. to market its heated tobacco product (HTP) IQOS inside the USA with claims that it reduces exposure to some dangerous substances. FDA's 'reduced-exposure' orders explicitly prohibit the marketing of IQOS with claims that IQOS will reduce har...
Ravindran, T K Sundari Ippolito, Angelo Raffaele Atiim, George Remme, Michelle
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Global public health
While the United Nations has long implemented strategies to tackle deep-rooted gender-based inequalities and discrimination in its programmes and policies, there is limited evidence on successful strategies to foster institutional structures and practices that promote gender equality or institutional gender mainstreaming. This paper explores and an...
Pankow, James F Luo, Wentai McWhirter, Kevin J Gillette, Samantha Cohen, Joanna E
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Tobacco control
Tobacco companies are offering cigarettes with 'concept' descriptor names that suggest sensation and/or flavour properties (eg, Marlboro 'Velvet Fusion'). Little has been known about the identities and levels of flavour chemicals in such cigarettes. Thirty-three filter cigarette variants from 27 packs (including two sampler packs with four variatio...
Omaiye, Esther E Luo, Wentai McWhirter, Kevin J Pankow, James F Talbot, Prue
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Tobacco control
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently banned flavours from pod-style electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), except for menthol and tobacco. JUUL customers have quickly discovered that flavoured disposable e-cigarettes from other manufacturers, such as Puff, are readily available. Our goal was to compare flavour chemicals, synthetic coo...
Omaiye, Esther E Luo, Wentai McWhirter, Kevin J Pankow, James F Talbot, Prue
BackgroundThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently banned flavours from pod-style electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), except for menthol and tobacco. JUUL customers have quickly discovered that flavoured disposable e-cigarettes from other manufacturers, such as Puff, are readily available. Our goal was to compare flavour chemicals, syn...
Bliznashka, Lilia Perumal, Nandita Yousafzai, Aisha Sudfeld, Christopher
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Archives of disease in childhood
To assess the associations between diet, stimulation and development among children 36-59 months of age in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). We pooled Demographic and Health Survey data on 12 126 children aged 36-59 months from 15 LMICs. Child diet indicators included dietary diversity score (DDS, range 0-7), minimum dietary diversity...
Gempeler, Andrés Griswold, Dylan P. Rosseau, Gail Johnson, Walter D. Kaseje, Neema Kolias, Angelos Hutchinson, Peter J. Rubiano, Andres M.
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Frontiers in Medicine
Background RT-PCR testing is the standard for diagnosis of COVID-19, although it has its suboptimal sensitivity. Chest computed tomography (CT) has been proposed as an additional tool with diagnostic value, and several reports from primary and secondary studies that assessed its diagnostic accuracy are already available. To inform recommendations a...
