Highlights • High HPV vaccination coverage is critical for preventing cervical cancer worldwide. • School-based programs effectively deliver vaccines to adolescents attending school. • We propose ways to ensure ...

There is a growing recognition that the provision of surgical services in low-income countries is inadequate to the need. While constrained health budgets and health worker shortages have been blamed for the low rates of ...

Trends in primary liver cancer (PLC) incidence rates will generally reflect temporal changes in exposure to aetiological agents. Worldwide, and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular, the great majority of PLCs are ...

Although the private sector’s engagement in sustainable international development is receiving increasing emphasis, its role in knowledge brokering has probably not yet received enough attention. Drawing on the Glegg and ...

Adjustment to life on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and living with HIV as a long-term chronic condition, pose significant medical, social and economic challenges. We investigated children’s role in supporting HIV-positi ...

Though prevention and treatment depend on individuals knowing their HIV status, the uptake of testing remains low in Sub-Saharan Africa. One initiative to encourage HIV testing involves delivering services at home. However, ...

The scale-up of antiretroviral therapy is progressing rapidly in Africa but with a limited evidence-base. We re- port the baseline results from a large pragmatic cluster-randomised trial comparing different strategies of ...

Objective: Evidence of condom effectiveness for HIV and sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention is based primarily on high-risk populations. We examined condom effectiveness in a general population with high HIV ...

To evaluate the burden of TB-HIV (tuberculosis-human immunodeficiency virus) co-infections and their predictors in an urban hospital-based HIV programme. DESIGN: Prospective observational study. METHODS: Clinicians screened ...

Assessment of safety is an integral part of real-time monitoring in clinical trials. In HIV prevention research, safety of investigational products and trial participation has been expanded to include monitoring for ‘social ...