The severity and immediacy of climate change hardly need emphasising. July 2026 saw the hottest sea temperatures ever recorded, and was the second-warmest July ever. The wildfires burning through miles of North America and Europe are growing more extreme in terms of size, frequency, and intensity. On average, the world is already at 1·4°C above […]
Gage A, Conrad M, Knight M, et al. Measuring antenatal care timing and content across 131 low-income and middle-income countries, 1995–2023: a systematic analysis of trends. Lancet 2026; 14: e702–13—In figure 2 of this Article, the ranges provided in the keys for panels A and B were incorrect and have been updated. This correction has […]
The expansion of biomedical HIV prevention during the past decade represents one of the major public health successes of the HIV response. Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly effective, and modelling studies support the cost-effectiveness of easy-access, risk-informed PrEP in epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa.1 Although more than 3·5 million people received PrEP globally at least […]
Online PrEP and PEP can avert substantial HIV infections, even with low population coverage. PEP was responsible for most intervention health benefits, likely due to high observed demand for PEP compared with PrEP in the pilot study. Leveraging private retailers can be efficient for scaling up HIV prevention in an era of shrinking donor funding.
We welcome scientific dialogue by Mark Schiffman and Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer regarding cervical cancer screening technologies. The central challenge in global cervical cancer control is not identifying the screening test that performs best under ideal conditions, but determining strategies that can most rapidly and equitably reduce mortality at the population level. Technologies conceived and optimised in […]
Matthew P Horning, Jessica Trenc Joseph, Groesbeck Parham