Articles

Diversity and solidarity in global health

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The Lancet Global Health, Volume 9, April 2021

This Comment article supports SDGs 3, 10, and 17 by highlighting the need for full inclusivity and representation, and the involvement of a diverse range of stakeholders and voices, in order to successfully design solutions to global health problems and to reform the systems that are exacerbating global health inequities.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 17: Partnership for the goals

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Diversity and inclusion; Information for integrated Decision-Making & Participation; Multi-stakeholder partnerships, Global

Performance of intensive care unit severity scoring systems across different ethnicities in the USA: a retrospective observational study

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The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 3, April 2021

This Article supprts SDGs 3 and 10 by assessing the performance of four severity scoring systems used for case-mix determination and benchmarking in intensive care units to identify possible ethnicity-based bias. The study found systemic differences in calibration across ethnicities.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Diversity and inclusion; Health and wellbeing, North America

Health data poverty: an assailable barrier to equitable digital health care

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The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 3, April 2021

Data-driven digital health technologies have the power to transform health care. If these tools could be sustainably delivered at scale, they might have the potential to provide everyone, everywhere, with equitable access to expert-level care, narrowing the global health and wellbeing gap. Conversely, it is highly possible that these transformative technologies could exacerbate existing health-care inequalities instead.

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SDG:

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Diversity and inclusion; Access to Health Care, Global

Decentralisation, integration, and task-shifting in hepatitis C virus infection testing and treatment: a global systematic review and meta-analysis

Elsevier, The Lancet Global Health, Volume 9, April 2021
Background: Increasing access to hepatitis C virus (HCV) care and treatment will require simplified service delivery models. We aimed to evaluate the effects of decentralisation and integration of testing, care, and treatment with harm-reduction and other services, and task-shifting to non-specialists on outcomes across the HCV care continuum.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and wellbeing; Capacity Building; Supply chain, Global

Does thermal history influence thermal tolerance of the freshwater fish Galaxias zebratus in a global biodiversity hotspot?

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Journal of Thermal Biology, Volume 97, April 2021

Compared to other climate regions of the world, Mediterranean regions are likely to experience more severe effects of climate change as rainfall decreases and temperatures increase. Global climate change models predict a reduction in rainfall and rise in the temperature of rivers in South Africa's Cape Fold Ecoregion (CFE) – a Mediterranean region in the south-west corner of the country.

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SDG:

Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 15: Life on land

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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Oceans & Seas; Thermal Energy, Global

Environmental sustainability and prevention of heavy metal pollution of some geo-materials within a city in southwestern Nigeria

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Heliyon, Volume 7, April 2021

This paper investigated the ways in which air pollution can be reduced through enhanced environmental sustainability by looking at groundwater, soil and stream sediment samples.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 13: Climate action

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Green economy; Health and population, Africa

INTERGROWTH-21 Identifies High Prevalence of Low Symphysis–Fundal Height in Indigenous Pregnant Women Experiencing Multiple Infections, Nutrient Deficiencies, and Inflammation: The Maternal Infections, Nutrient Deficiencies, and Inflammation (MINDI) Cohor

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Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 5, Issue 4, 2021, nzab012, ISSN 2475-2991

This study identified, for the first time, determinants of low Symphysis–Fundal Height (SFH) in the context of multiple infections, nutrient deficiencies, and inflammation in a marginalized community of pregnant indigenous women and recommends the use of low SFH as a screening tool in remote settings for the identification of high-risk pregnancies is a first step to improve maternal and fetal health
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Diversity and inclusion, Global

Spatial phylogenetics of butterflies in relation to environmental drivers and angiosperm diversity across North America

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iScience, Volume 24, 23 April 2021

In this work, the authors take on  a broad-scale quantitative assessment of butterfly biodiversity. They find with some examples of North American butterflies that shared biogeographic histories and trophic associations do not necessarily assure similar diversity outcomes.
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SDG:

Goal 15: Life on land

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Biodiversity and ecosystems, North America

HIV TAT-mediated microglial senescence: Role of SIRT3-dependent mitochondrial oxidative stress

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Redox Biology, Volume 40, April 2021

The introduction of combined antiretroviral treatment (cART) for HIV-1 has significantly reduced peripherary viral levels and extended the lives of patients. However, longer lifespans have led to more age-related health issues, like HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND). This study investigates how the HIV TAT protein mediates microglial mitochondrial oxidative stress, leading to neuroinflammation and microglial aging.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Global

Psychosocial factors of stigma and relationship to healthcare services among adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in Kano state, Nigeria

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Heliyon, Volume 7, April 2021

This study identifies the psychosocial factors of stigma and relationship to healthcare services among adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in Kano state, Nigeria.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Africa

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