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The Lancet Global Health

• [Health Policy] A landscape analysis of the vaccine ecosystem in Africa: research and development funding, clinical trials, regulation, and manufacturing readiness November 1, 2025
  Vaccines are vital for global health, and despite bearing the highest burden of infectious diseases, Africa manufactures less than 1% of its vaccine needs. This Health Policy paper offers an overview of Africa's vaccine ecosystem, examining research and development funding, clinical trials, regulatory maturity, and manufacturing readiness with publicly available data. Funding for research and […]
  Catherine Fleck-Vidal, Amelie Le Moal, Ondari D Mogeni, Douglas Shaffer, Vincent Canouet, Nicaise Ndembi, T Anh Wartel, Laura Plant, Jerome H Kim
• [Editorial] Postpartum haemorrhage: aligning for renewed action November 1, 2025
  October 5 marked the first World Postpartum Haemorrhage Day. Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of maternal mortality globally, despite being largely preventable. Addressing it will be key to achieving the currently unreachable Sustainable Development Goal of reducing the maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100 000 livebirths. In recognition of this fact, […]
  The Lancet Global Health
• [Comment] NCD risk factors in low-income populations in India November 1, 2025
  Multiple surveys in India over the past three decades have reported increasing burden of non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors and chronic diseases.1 Some studies have reported that NCD risk factors are increasing among low socioeconomic status populations.2,3 The India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative reported that the epidemiological transition index (ratio of NCDs to communicable, maternal, […]
  Rajeev Gupta, Indu Mohan
• [Comment] Malaria burden in a region under long-term chemoprevention November 1, 2025
  Despite the implementation of effective control strategies, malaria continues to confer high morbidity and mortality in Africa.1 Among the factors that can explain the persistence of the disease in the continent is the asymptomatic carriage of the parasite, particularly during the dry season.2,3 In Senegal, the most regions with the greatest endemicity are located in […]
  Doudou Sow, Amélé Nyedzie Wotodjo
• [Comment] Endemic melioidosis in Africa: Mali study sounds the alarm November 1, 2025
  In this issue of The Lancet Global Health, the study by Sabine Lichtenegger and colleagues1 provides the first large-scale clinical and genomic confirmation of endemic Burkholderia pseudomallei transmission in Mali, Africa, expanding on previous evidence from Gabon. By documenting 31 paediatric cases, 14 (45%) of which occurred in infants aged 12 months or younger, with […]
  Qianfeng Xia, Hua Wu