This week, MSF contributes to an article in Australasian Psychiatry, describing the emergence of pervasive refusal syndrome in children seeking asylum on Nauru, Australia. The authors discuss the challenges faced by clinicians in a situation where medical and legal obligations can often conflict. MSF is also mentioned in an editorial in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, which calls for collective international action to protect the children of Islamic State fighters from a worsening situation in Al Hol camp, Syria.

In The Lancet, a study provides global-level estimates of vaccine confidence across 149 countries between 2015 and 2019, and provides insights into worldwide variations and country-dependent factors that affect vaccine decisions. The results highlight the need for regular monitoring to detect emerging trends and prompt new approaches to build vaccine confidence.

Finally, an article in Global Public Health, co-authored by MSF, explores the association between non-partner sexual violence experience and access to toilets in young women in deprived communities of South Africa. Women using shared toilets were more likely to report experience of non-partner rape, suggesting that private, secure toilets may play a role in preventing non-partner sexual violence.

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Maternal and child health

Australasian Psychiatry • Article ***MSF AUTHOR***: Pervasive refusal syndrome in child asylum seekers on Nauru

The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health • Editorial ***MENTIONS MSF***: The abandoned children of the Islamic State

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine • Article ***MENTIONS MSF***: Children in Immigrant Families: Advocacy within and beyond the Pediatric Emergency

The Lancet • Article : Valaciclovir to prevent vertical transmission of cytomegalovirus after maternal primary infection during pregnancy: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial and comment Secondary prevention of congenital cytomegalovirus infection

The Lancet • Review : Complicated pneumonia in children

The BMJ • Editorial : Evidence based care for pregnant women with covid-19

The BMJ Opinion • Blog : Efficient, timely, and funded living evidence syntheses on maternal and newborn health during the pandemic

BMJ Global Health • Article : Population impact and effectiveness of sequential 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate and monovalent rotavirus vaccine introduction on infant mortality: prospective birth cohort studies from Malawi

BMJ Global Health • Article : Does adherence to evidence-based practices during childbirth prevent perinatal mortality? A post-hoc analysis of 3,274 births in Uttar Pradesh, India

Tropical Medicine & International Health • Article : Examining the distribution of benefits of a free Maternal and Child Health programme in Enugu State, Nigeria: a benefit incidence analysis

Research and reporting

International Journal of Forecasting • Review ***MENTIONS MSF***: Forecasting in humanitarian operations: Literature review and research needs

The BMJ • Article : When to replicate systematic reviews of interventions: consensus checklist

Infectious diseases

Hawaii Journal of Health and Social Welfare • Article ***MENTIONS MSF***: The Challenges of Hepatitis B Treatment in the US-Associated Pacific Islands

The Lancet Global Health • Other : Certifying the interruption of wild poliovirus transmission in the WHO African region on the turbulent journey to a polio-free world

The Lancet Infectious Diseases • Article : Safety and immunogenicity of co-administered hookworm vaccine candidates Na-GST-1 and Na-APR-1 in Gabonese adults: a randomised, controlled, double-blind, phase 1 dose-escalation trial

Global health

The Lancet • Comment : Lebanon's humanitarian crisis escalates after the Beirut blast

The Lancet • Editorial : Global collaboration for health: rhetoric versus reality

The Lancet Global Health • Article : Projected health-care resource needs for an effective response to COVID-19 in 73 low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

BMJ Global Health • Other : Global strategies and local implementation of health and health-related SDGs: lessons from consultation in countries across five regions

Vaccines

The Lancet • Article : Mapping global trends in vaccine confidence and investigating barriers to vaccine uptake: a large-scale retrospective temporal modelling study and comment It is time to get serious about vaccine confidence and comment Heidi Larson: shifting the conversation about vaccine confidence

The Lancet • Comment : Legal agreements: barriers and enablers to global equitable COVID-19 vaccine access

JAMA • Viewpoint : Fairly Prioritizing Groups for Access to COVID-19 Vaccines

Non-communicable diseases

The Lancet • Series : Primary prevention of asthma: from risk and protective factors to targeted strategies for prevention

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology • Viewpoint : Gestational diabetes: opportunities for improving maternal and child health

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine • Comment : Reducing the burden of asthma: time to set research and clinical priorities

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine • Comment : More options for managing severe asthma in adults

The BMJ • Article : Association between high blood pressure and long term cardiovascular events in young adults: systematic review and meta-analysis

The BMJ • Review : Hepatorenal syndrome: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management

The BMJ Opinion • Blog : Responding to non-communicable diseases during and beyond the covid-19 pandemic

BMJ Global Health • Article : The cost-effectiveness of hypertension management in low-income and middle-income countries: a review

BMJ Global Health • Article : Systematic review of frameworks used to conceptualise health pathways of individuals diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases

Zika

PLOS NTDs • Article : Zika virus transmission by Brazilian Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus is virus dose and temperature-dependent

Sexual and reproductive health

Global Public Health • Article ***MSF AUTHOR***: Non-partner sexual violence experience and toilet type amongst young (18–24) women in South Africa: A population-based cross-sectional analysis

The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health • Viewpoint : Sexual health education for adolescents and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities: recommendations for accessible sexual and reproductive health information

The Lancet Digital Health • Article : Improving the health of young African American women in the preconception period using health information technology: a randomised controlled trial

Outbreaks

The Lancet Global Health • Article : Projected health-care resource needs for an effective response to COVID-19 in 73 low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

The Lancet Infectious Diseases • Correspondence : SARS-CoV-2 transmission via speech-generated respiratory droplets

The Lancet Infectious Diseases • Editorial : Curing COVID-19

The Lancet Planetary Health • Comment : Responding to COVID-19 requires strong epidemiological evidence of environmental and societal determining factors

The BMJ • Article : Risk stratification of patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol: development and validation of the 4C Mortality Score

The BMJ • News : Long covid: How to define it and how to manage it

The BMJ • Feature : Covid-19 exposes the high cost of India’s reliance on private healthcare

The BMJ • Other : Should countries aim for elimination in the covid-19 pandemic?

BMJ Global Health • Analysis : Predicted COVID-19 fatality rates based on age, sex, comorbidities and health system capacity

NEJM • Editorial : Audio Interview: Guidelines for Covid-19 Vaccine Deployment

NEJM • Perspectives : Covid-19 Molecular Diagnostic Testing — Lessons Learned

JAMA • Viewpoint : COVID-19 and the Path to Immunity

PLOS Medicine • Article : Adverse outcomes and mortality in users of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2: A Danish nationwide cohort study

Conflict and Health • Comment : Addressing COVID-19 in humanitarian settings: a call to action

Innovation

BMJ Innovations • Letter : Clinicians embracing social media in the response against COVID-19

BMJ Innovations • Review : Communication tools in the COVID-19 era and beyond which can optimise professional practice and patient care

Neglected tropical diseases

PLOS NTDs • Viewpoint : A bug’s life: Delving into the challenges of helminth microbiome studies

Transactions of RSTMH • Article : Demographic and climatic factors associated with dengue prevalence in a hyperendemic zone in Mexico: an empirical approach

Bugbitten • Blog : An outbreak of intestinal schistosomiasis: What lies ahead for Malawi?

HIV and tuberculosis

The Lancet HIV • Article : Perceived HIV stigma and HIV testing among men and women in rural Uganda: a population-based study

PLOS Medicine • Article : Providing TB and HIV outreach services to internally displaced populations in Northeast Nigeria: Results of a controlled intervention study

BMJ Global Health • Article : Understanding why at-risk population segments do not seek care for tuberculosis: a precision public health approach in South India

Tropical Medicine & International Health • Article : National tuberculosis prevalence surveys in Africa, 2008–2016: an overview of results and lessons learned

Malaria

Malaria Journal • Article : Costing malaria interventions from pilots to elimination programmes

Malaria Journal • Article : Effectiveness of peer-learning assisted primary school students educating the rural community on insecticide-treated nets utilization in Jimma-zone Ethiopia

Malaria Journal • Article : Implementation of a malaria sentinel surveillance system in Togo: a pilot study