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Image: The first issue of The Lancet Regional Health Africa journal cover. Credit: David Sacks - Getty Images.

🆕 Out now: the inaugural issue of The Lancet Regional Health – Africa, a Gold Open Access journal.

"As a journal, we stand for the decolonization of health and medical research in Africa."

Explore the full issue 👉 spkl.io/63320AIdt8

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Thank you to The Lancet Global Health's statistical and peer reviewers in 2025 The following individuals reviewed at least one paper for The Lancet Global Health in 2025, including those who co-reviewed with a colleague. We sincerely thank every one of them and hope to engage fu...

A sincere thank you to everyone who peer reviewed content for our journal in 2025, who we've listed here by name! You do so much to help us all improve research worldwide www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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The effect of Indigenous American genomic ancestry on type 2 diabetes in Mexico: an analysis of 134 548 individuals from the Mexico City Prospective Study The percentage of inherited AMR ancestry is strongly associated with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in this admixed Mexican population. These findings suggest that most of the Mexican population has ...

Published in @thelancetph.bsky.social

The effect of Indigenous American genomic ancestry on type 2 #diabetes in Mexico: an analysis of 134 548 individuals from the Mexico City Prospective Study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#T2D #Mexico
#OpenAccess

#MedSky #EndoSky

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From emergency to integration: research as the bridge in mpox control The lifting of the status of mpox as a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS) is a major epidemiological and political milestone.1 However, this change in status should not be confuse...

A bumper crop of mpox content - 1 comment and 4 research articles 👇

From emergency to integration: research as the bridge in mpox control

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Safeguarding women and girls in the age of AI As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become increasingly embedded in global health research and practice, they offer new opportunities to address gaps in women's health, including maternal health and gender equity. Additionally, as shown by Peige Song and colleagues in this issue, AI could help identify and prioritise research directions that address the needs of marginalised groups. Yet these technologies may also be misused to amplify harm and perpetuate inequities. The recent Grok AI scandal, involving the non-consensual creation and dissemination of explicit sexual images of women and girls through generative AI, is a clear warning of the misuse of AI.

As AI technology becomes more embedded in everyday life, they offer opportunities to address gaps in women’s health, but also pose significant harm when misused.

A @lancetgh.bsky.social Editorial discusses how to safeguard women and girls in the age of AI: spkl.io/63328AxHOA

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Three generations of women. Copyright: JOHN BIRDSALL SOCIAL ISSUES PHOTO LIBRARY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Our latest Editorial reflects on recent advances in women's health, as highlighted in our #InternationalWomensDay Infographic, but notes that we must remain aware of the risks of regression or misuse.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IWD

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4 days ago

On International Women's Day, we have published an Infographic that celebrates a decade of practice-changing research in women's health and looks forward to a new era of dedicated advocacy.
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#IWD @thelancet.com

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Figure 1 from the article, which outlines the policy areas and interventions which need change to adapt environments to enable healthy diets and active living, to create knowledge, motivation, and skills for healthy behaviour, and to transform the health system to respond to the obesity crisis

For #WorldObesityDay, two recent pieces in @lancetgh.bsky.social:
First, a Health Policy online today #OpenAccess outlines how countries signed up to the WHO Acceleration Plan to Stop Obesity can integrate and scale chronic obesity care within their health systems:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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1 week ago

A Panel from the Comment, which reads:

Panel
Future directions
Recommendations
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Increase awareness among health-care professionals, media, and wider society of the serious health needs that GLP-1 receptor agonists exist to address, reframing public understanding of these as essential medicines to reduce multimorbidity and premature mortality
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Include GLP-1 receptor agonists for use on obesity as a standalone condition (not solely as a comorbidity) in global technical guidance and the WHO Essential Medicine List
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Advocate for inclusion of GLP-1 receptor agonists in national essential medicines lists and health insurance (universal health coverage) packages
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Develop a global strategy to accelerate access to affordable newer treatments where more appropriate to lower-income and middle-income countries' (LMICs') health systems
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Lobby global health funders and national ministries of health and finance to allocate funding to enable capacity strengthening for health-care professionals on obesity care
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Include obesity within undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing medical curricula

And we also have a Comment on GLP-1 receptor agonists and how they might fit into the wider obesity agenda, looking at their potential role in LMIC health systems and ensuring equitable access

#WorldObesityDay

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For #WorldObesityDay, two recent pieces in @lancetgh.bsky.social:
First, a Health Policy online today #OpenAccess outlines how countries signed up to the WHO Acceleration Plan to Stop Obesity can integrate and scale chronic obesity care within their health systems:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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2 weeks ago

A paragraph from the article, which reads:
Under the America First Global Health Strategy, however, health cooperation is explicitly subordinated to geopolitical calculation. As the State Department makes clear; “the President and Secretary of State retain the right to pause or terminate programs which do not align with the national interest”.3 In this context, political divergence or non-compliance does not unfold gradually. It occurs abruptly, unevenly, and often without institutional recourse. The suspension of crucial HIV funding to South Africa illustrates this shift. Citing diplomatic positions on major conflicts, land expropriation laws, and alignment with alternative geopolitical blocs, the USA has shown how political alignment now overrides epidemiological logic.4 Disease burden, programmatic performance, and technical capacity provided no insulation. A high-capacity health system was exposed to withdrawal without buffers, timelines, or negotiated safeguards. For many low-income and middle-income countries, the central risk is no longer inefficiency or reform failure. It is abandonment.

A new Comment in The Lancet Global Health lays out the necessary strategic shifts to protect global health in the era of "America First", covering:

- Institutional cooperation
- Legal counterweights
- Redefining the role of multilateral institutions

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Protecting global health in the era of the America First Strategy As Washington recasts its global health agenda, the America First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS) presents itself as a corrective to decades of aid dependence.1 Open-ended assistance is replaced with t...

"The policy challenge is therefore not how to restore a depoliticised global health order, but how to protect health systems in an environment in which leverage determines engagement and continuity." powerful piece in @lancetgh.bsky.social from Nelson Evaborhene www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Prevalence estimates of small vulnerable newborns in China (2012–22): a modelling study Although the prevalence of SVNs in mainland China has stabilised overall, a reversal occurred after 2018, with western provinces showing substantially higher levels than central and eastern provinces....

New modelling study on small vulnerable newborns (SVNs) in China 2012-2022 draws on data from over 14 million livebirths across 30 provinces to show stable but persistently high national SVN prevalence with marked subnational heterogeneity - read #openaccess here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Gaps in government recognition of the service needs of women who experience intimate partner violence: a comparative case study analysis of policies and implementation across eight countries Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a substantial health and human rights concern. Governmental policies to address IPV are well-documented, but most available evidence on implementation focuses on spe...

On violence against women, a large gap between laws & their implementation exists. Yet we have few tools to measure it. Our @lancetgh.bsky.social article draws on admin & survey data on IPV survivors to assess the “recognition gap” across countries www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @giga-hamburg.de

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Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict: new primary evidence from a population-representative field survey This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...

Published today in @lancetgh.bsky.social: New primary estimates of the death toll in Gaza conducted via a household survey approximate mortality totals 34.7% above Gaza Ministry of Health figures, from the start of the conflict in Gaza up to Jan 2025: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict: new primary evidence from a population-representative field survey This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...

Published today in @lancetgh.bsky.social: New primary estimates of the death toll in Gaza conducted via a household survey approximate mortality totals 34.7% above Gaza Ministry of Health figures, from the start of the conflict in Gaza up to Jan 2025: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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3 weeks ago

A Guardian article discussing a study on mortality in Gaza we published last night which you can find here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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3 weeks ago

The Lancet Global Health editors on conferences, implementation, and 2026 Podcast Episode · The Lancet Global Health in conversation with · 02/16/2026 · 29m

🎙️ Our podcast this month features your TLGH editorial team! Zoë, Pingyue, Gavin, and Shangrong discuss the problems with conferences in HICs, equitable research partnership, and the research we'd like to see in 2026!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2y7y...

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The Lancet Global Health editors on conferences, implementation, and 2026 Podcast Episode · The Lancet Global Health in conversation with · 02/16/2026 · 29m

🎙️ Our podcast this month features your TLGH editorial team! Zoë, Pingyue, Gavin, and Shangrong discuss the problems with conferences in HICs, equitable research partnership, and the research we'd like to see in 2026!
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2y7y...

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3 weeks ago

"Implementing digital health and AI for programme screening, diagnosis, and treatment in global eye health"

Eye health a top 10 research priority for data science and AI globally, rising to #3 in the rankings among LMIC experts! 👀

Scoring highly on "potential for translation and implementation".

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3 weeks ago

Investment In Malaria Venture Yields 13x Health Benefits - Health Policy Watch Every $1 invested in the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) between 2000 and 2023 yielded $13 in monetised health benefits, according to a study published in

Every $1 invested in @mmv.org generated $13 in health benefits, new @lancetgh.bsky.social study. ⬇️

1.6M deaths averted.
87M DALYs saved.
19 malaria medicines delivered.

Smart investment saves lives. 💊🌍

✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social
@lseblogs.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
📖⬇️ & 🔁🙏

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The Lancet Global Health | LinkedIn The Lancet Global Health | The world-leading global health journal | The Lancet Global Health focuses on improving health for disadvantaged populations worldwide, from entire economic regions to margi...

If LinkedIn is your thing, we've just launched a new resource for keeping up to date with The Lancet Global Health over there! www.linkedin.com/company/lang...

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Avoidable deaths through the primary prevention, early detection, and curative treatment of cancer worldwide: a population-based study Nearly half of deaths among people diagnosed with cancer globally could be avoided through primary prevention and improvements in early detection and curative cancer treatment. Global efforts are need...

📢Nearly half of deaths among people diagnosed with cancer globally could be avoided through primary prevention and improvements in early detection and curative treatment📢

Read more in our latest study, just out in @lancetgh.bsky.social
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Table 3 from the paper, which contains too much text to put here, but if you click through to the paper your screen reader should be able to unpack it for you

The issue also features a Health Policy paper on AI, and how stakeholders in different settings think AI usage could be useful to health, "Research priorities for data science and artificial intelligence in global health: an international consensus exercise" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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3 weeks ago

A paragraph from the Editorial, which reads:
Although AI has the potential to identify neglected health issues and improve access to care, it can also reinforce existing biases and introduce new threats. Grok's misuse is one example of broader risks that under-regulated technological advancement can pose to women's dignity, safety, and wellbeing in patriarchal societies. As Bakelmen and Buse point out in this issue, AI-generated images risk repeating harmful stereotypes and denying people control over their portrayal. As highlighted by UN Women, AI technologies are increasingly used to facilitate and amplify online abuse against women, including harassment, stalking, and the non-consensual sharing or manipulation of intimate images. The scale and speed at which AI can generate and spread harmful content exacerbate digital violence against women and girls. Such misuse aggravates discrimination, inflicts psychological and social harm, and endangers the dignity and safety of women. AI's ease of creating abusive imagery raises urgent ethical concerns, such as privacy violations and non-consensual content, underscoring the need for robust governance and effective safeguards. These challenges are particularly worrisome for women and girls in low-resource settings, where legal and technical protections may be weakest.

Our new Open Access issue is online today! We lead off with an Editorial from our editors highlighting the dangers that AI poses to women around the world, titled "Safeguarding women and girls in the age of AI", ahead of #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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3 weeks ago

Our new @lancetgh.bsky.social piece on The tuberculogenic environment — the sum of influences, vulnerabilities, policies, life conditions, and health factors that sustain the tuberculosis pandemic in vulnerable communities

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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1 month ago

Modelled eCSC6/18 among people aged 50 years and older globally and by WHO region in 2000–30.

Figure from eCSC publication with seven plots, one for each WHO region and one global. Each plot shows predicted trend lines for eCSC between 2000 and 2030 in men (blue) and women (red). There are no trend lines for the European region. All WHO regional plots also show empirical eCSC estimates per year as blue dots.

📢 New eCSC paper out in @lancetgh.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

👁️ Progress towards the 2030 global target is lagging, more investment in quality cataract services is needed urgently.

👁️ Launched at same time as @who.int guidance on cataract care quality: iris.who.int/handle/10665...

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A panel from the article which reads:
Contrasting foundational and Indigenous approaches in implementation science
Potential issues with foundational approaches to implementation science
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Emphasis on evidence-based practice over practice-based evidence
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Externally driven and deficit-oriented
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Equity emphasised only recently
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Technical and jargon-heavy
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Poor alignment with Indigenous ways of knowing
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Insufficient attention to social determinants
Alternative Indigenous approaches to implementation science
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Affirming and valuing local practice-based evidence and traditional knowledge
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Community driven and strengths-based, with a focus on Indigenous leadership
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Equity and sovereignty embedded as core guiding principles
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Accessible and community-centred, with the use of shared terminology
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Integrating and building on Indigenous research methods, ontologies, and epistemologies
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Holistic frameworks addressing upstream social determinants of implementation success

From our most recent issue, please take a look at this fascinating Viewpoint on using Indigenous principles to decolonise implementation science, embracing differing epistemologies and community-driven approaches www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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From our most recent issue, please take a look at this fascinating Viewpoint on using Indigenous principles to decolonise implementation science, embracing differing epistemologies and community-driven approaches www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Colourful i-Base graphic. The main text reads: ‘Catastrophic’ US cuts to global aid will mean 23 million avoidable deaths in 4 years. At the top is i-Base’s website address: I hyphen base dot info. A smaller rectangle in the bottom right, reads: HIV news. 2026. There are various dotted patterns. The colours used in the image are two shades of khaki brown, dark purple, light blue, khaki green, magenta, pink, turquoise, orange, dark green, mustard and white.

US funding cuts set to cause 23 million excess deaths in the poorest countries by 2030:

i-base.info/htb/53179

New @lancetgh.bsky.social paper predicts that 5.4 million of these will be children under 5.

#HIVsky #IDsky #GlobalHealth #GlobalAid #HIV #InfantMortality #malaria #LMICs #USAID #PEPFAR

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