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Journal articlePatel A, Jofre-Bonet M, Hauck K, et al., 2025,
Broadening the lens: a commentary on Sheard and Cauana-Finkel's account of women's progress in UK academic health economics
, Social Science and Medicine, Vol: 382, ISSN: 0277-9536 -
Journal articleKang H, Lim A, Auzenbergs M, et al., 2025,
Global, regional and national burden of chikungunya: force of infection mapping and spatial modelling study
, BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH, Vol: 10, ISSN: 2059-7908 -
Journal articleStone J, Mutai KK, Artenie A, et al., 2025,
The impact of cuts in the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief funding for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in sub-Saharan Africa: a modelling study
, The Lancet HIV, Vol: 12, Pages: e712-e721, ISSN: 2352-3018BackgroundIn January, 2025, the US Government issued a directive, pausing all foreign aid programmes. This directive included a 90-day pausing of all US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) funding for HIV oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) except for pregnant and breastfeeding women, with a return to funding for PrEP looking increasingly unlikely. We aimed to estimate the impact of a funding pause for PrEP on HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa.MethodsIn this mathematical modelling study, we developed a static HIV transmission model incorporating PrEP, parameterised with estimates of population size, HIV prevalence and incidence, and PrEP effectiveness for different subpopulations (including key populations) in each PEPFAR-funded sub-Saharan African country. Key populations were men who have sex with men, female sex workers, transgender women, and people who inject drugs. We used PEPFAR reporting on numbers of people in different subpopulations returning for oral PrEP for each country in July to September, 2024, as the estimated number using oral PrEP provided by PEPFAR. For each country and subpopulation, we modelled the relative and absolute increase in new primary HIV infections resulting from removing this funded PrEP for a year and the number of secondary infections that could result from these primary infections during the next 5 years.FindingsTowards the end of 2024, 719 384 individuals who were not breastfeeding or pregnant, including 205 868 people from key populations, received PEPFAR-funded PrEP across 28 sub-Saharan African countries. The estimated proportion of HIV-negative key population individuals receiving PEPFAR-funded PrEP (ie, the coverage) ranged from 2·6% (95% uncertainty interval 2·0–3·4) in people who inject drugs to 5·0% (4·5–5·9) in female sex workers. Estimated coverage among non-key population men was less than 0·1% (<0·1 to <0·1) and in wo
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Journal articleKamgno J, Adeleke M, Basáñez M-G, et al., 2025,
Vector-borne helminthiases: a road map for current and future research to support control and elimination in sub-Saharan Africa.
, Lancet Infect Dis, Vol: 25, Pages: e555-e604 -
Journal articleDorigatti I, Gaythorpe KAM, Cox VM, et al., 2025,
Priorities for modelling arbovirus transmission under climate change
, TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE, Vol: 31, Pages: 885-894, ISSN: 1471-4914 -
Journal articleWatson OJ, Tran TN-A, Zupko RJ, et al., 2025,
Global risk of selection and spread of <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> histidine-rich protein 2 and 3 gene deletions
, NATURE MEDICINE, Vol: 31, ISSN: 1078-8956 -
Journal articleStover J, Sonneveldt E, Tam Y, et al., 2025,
Effects of reductions in US foreign assistance on HIV, tuberculosis, family planning, and maternal and child health a modelling study
, LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH, Vol: 13, ISSN: 2214-109X -
Journal articleDjègbè NDC, Da DF, Somé BM, et al., 2025,
Exploring near-infrared spectroscopy ability to predict the age and species of Anopheles gambiae sensu lato mosquitoes from different environmental conditions in Burkina Faso
, Malaria Journal, Vol: 24, ISSN: 1475-2875BackgroundNear infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has shown ability in previous studies to predict age and species of laboratory-reared and wild mosquitoes with moderate to high accuracy. To validate the technique as a routine tool, it is necessary to assess NIRS accuracy on these variables under different environmental conditions susceptible to affect the mosquito cuticle and interfere with the machine accuracy. This study investigated the influence of environmental conditions on NIRS accuracy to determine the age and species of Anopheles gambiae sensu lato (s.l.).MethodsEnvironmental conditions of three important seasonal periods in Burkina Faso covering the onset, the peak and the end of the rainy season were mimicked in the laboratory using incubators. Emerged An. gambiae s.s. and An. coluzzii from laboratory colonies were reared in each period using temperature and relative humidity for predicting mosquito species by NIRS. Wild An. gambiae s.l. (n = 3788) were caught during the 3 different periods described above and analysed by NIRS to predict Anopheles species. Furthermore, first generation of wild Anopheles (n = 1014) was used to assess NIRS ability to classify mosquito age in each environmental condition. All data analysis were performed using a binomial logistic regression model.ResultsNIRS discriminated between laboratory-reared Anopheles with 83% of accuracy independently of any environmental condition. Similar trend was found in wild-caught Anopheles. NIRS accuracies varied slightly in laboratory Anopheles (77–85%) and more strongly in their field counterparts (67–84%). In both cases, models developed from the season of interest were more accurate than models trained with insectary conditions or from a different period of the year, indicating temperature and humidity can impact NIRS accuracy. Models derived from laboratory-mosquitoes reared under fluctuating environmental conditions predicted field-derived mosquito spec
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Journal articlede Souza Santos AA, Ribeiro Pessanha Leal JG, Sabino EC, et al., 2025,
Dataset on Brazilian Municipal Health Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic
, SCIENTIFIC DATA, Vol: 12 -
Journal articleGalue J, de Souza WM, Torres-Cosme R, et al., 2025,
Contrasting Ecological Patterns of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis and Madariaga Viruses in Small Mammal and Mosquito Populations from Two Enzootic Regions of Panama
, VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES, ISSN: 1530-3667
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