The Lancet Global Health: July 2024, Volume 12, Issue 7

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The July 2024 issue of The Lancet Global Health include the following 26 articles:
(with a curated selection of 10 articles* available for download)

• Access to and quality of elective care: a prospective cohort study using hernia surgery as a tracer condition in 83 countries
• Aligning meta-regression analyses of cost-effectiveness evidence to policy makers' needs
• Analysis of opioid analgesic consumption in Africa *
• Balancing global access to opioids *
• Cost-effectiveness of interventions for HIV/AIDS, malaria, syphilis, and tuberculosis in 128 countries: a meta-regression analysis *
• Decolonising global health: why the new Pandemic Agreement should have included the principle of subsidiarity *
• Diagnostic yield as an important metric for the evaluation of novel tuberculosis tests: rationale and guidance for future research *
• Digital solutions for rare diseases in global health
• Doxycycline for the treatment of nodding syndrome: a randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial *
• Erasing stigma around rare diseases *
• Factors associated with skilled birth attendance in 37 low-income and middle-income countries: a secondary analysis of nationally representative, individual-level data
• For and with people: announcing the Lancet Global Health Commission on people-centred care for universal health coverage and a call for commissioner nominations
• Geospatial disparities in breast cancer care in sub-Saharan Africa: time to act
• Geospatial disparities in survival of patients with breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa from the African Breast Cancer-Disparities in Outcomes cohort (ABC-DO): a prospective cohort study
• Global health for rare diseases through primary care
• Hernia repair as a tracer for elective surgical care
• Neurodevelopment in preschool children exposed and unexposed to Zika virus in utero in Nicaragua: a prospective cohort study
• Nodding syndrome and doxycycline: promising findings with open questions *
• Short-term aid or long-term gains? Harnessing Sudan's humanitarian response for the resilience of its health system
• Skilled birth attendance: safeguarding mothers and newborns
• The drug drought in maternal health: an ongoing predicament
• The surge of mpox in Africa: a call for action *
• The west Africa Ebola virus disease outbreak: 10 years on *
• Trade-offs between clinical performance and test accessibility in tuberculosis diagnosis: a multi-country modelling approach for target product profile development
• When sex is demanded as payment for health-care services
• Why are the Sustainable Development Goals failing? Overcoming the paradox of unimplementability