BACKGROUND The September 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration is a landmark event in the
history of global health. The declaration raised awareness of “health for all” as a universal …

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) represent the primary cause of morbidity and mortality
worldwide. Specific attention needs to be given in fragile and crisis-affected contexts, where …

Diagnostic testing has become indispensable for diagnosing and monitoring disease, for
providing prognoses and for predicting treatment responses. 1, 2 Today, over 40 000 …

It is not often the world has the opportunity to turn a public health crisis into a good news
story. 1, 2 The development of oral, highly effective, pangenotypic direct-acting antivirals …

Several barriers challenge development, adoption and scale-up of diagnostics in low and
middle income countries. An innovative global health discussion platform allows capturing …

Precise rare-cell technologies require the blood to be processed immediately or be
stabilized with fixatives. Such restrictions limit the translation of circulating tumor cell (CTC) …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for the elimination of cervical cancer as a
public health problem. Cervical cancer screening through human papillomavirus (HPV) …

An accurate, timely diagnosis is the cornerstone of good medical practice. For opportunistic
fungal infections in AIDS and other invasive mycoses, this is dependent on the availability of …

BACKGROUND There are numerous barriers to achieving high-quality laboratory diagnostic
testing in resource-limited countries. These include inconsistent supply chains, variable …

There were approximately 528,000 cases of invasive cervical cancer (ICC) and 266,000 ICC-
related deaths globally in 2012, making it the fourth most common cancer in women and the …