The Lancet Global Health
Apr 2014 Volume 2 Number 4 e182 – 241
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/issue/current
Editorial
Reaching the unreached and expecting the unexpected
Zoë Mullan
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March 24 marked annual World TB Day, this year’s theme being “reach the 3 million” who acquire tuberculosis every year but who do not get diagnosed, treated, or cured. Why do so many patients with this life-threatening infectious disease go under the radar? One reason, as Madhukar Pai and colleagues point out in a Comment this month, is that many people seek advice on their symptoms from care providers who have little to do with the evidence-based policies and procedures set out by national tuberculosis programmes.
Comment
Why are economic growth and reductions in child undernutrition so weakly correlated—and what can public policy do?
Abhijeet Singh
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Child undernutrition in developing countries remains a persistent problem. It contributes importantly to child mortality and carries long-term consequences for malnourished children, including reduced cognitive development, worse economic outcomes, and lower offspring birthweight.1 In 2011, an estimated 165 million children in developing countries were stunted and 101 million children were underweight.2
Comment
Disseminating health research in sub-Saharan Africa through journal partnerships
Kai Ruggeri
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Health research consortia in sub-Saharan Africa present a positive outlook for the region through increased scientific capacity.1 New networks of African–African, African–European, and African–global partnerships provide platforms to advance crucial research domains.2,3 Such networks enable junior African researchers to advance their work, and they also poise the region to provide expertise across many health domains.2 High-income partners also gain by hosting African researchers, increasing international exposure to developing regions, and learning from researchers with few resources.