The Lancet
Apr 02, 2016 Volume 387 Number 10026 p1347-1482 e24
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current
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Editorial
Yellow fever: a global reckoning
The Lancet
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30116-7
Summary
Angola is currently facing its worst outbreak of yellow fever in 30 years. Since December, 2015, when the outbreak was first declared in the capital of Luanda, there have been 178 deaths, more than 1000 suspected cases, and spread to several provinces. Imported cases have now been reported in China, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, posing a global health security risk. A mass vaccination campaign in Luanda began in February, but the emergency stockpile of the vaccine has already been exhausted.
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Comment
Lean economies and innovation in mental health systems
Sara Evans-Lacko, Wagner Ribeiro, Elisa Brietzke, Martin Knapp, Jair Mari, David McDaid, Cristiane S Paula, Renee Romeo, Graham Thornicroft, Lawrence Wissow
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The Lancet Commissions
Public health and international drug policy
Joanne Csete, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Michel Kazatchkine, Frederick Altice, Marek Balicki, Julia Buxton, Javier Cepeda, Megan Comfort, Eric Goosby, João Goulão, Carl Hart, Thomas Kerr, Alejandro Madrazo Lajous, Stephen Lewis, Natasha Martin, Daniel Mejía, Adriana Camacho, David Mathieson, Isidore Obot, Adeolu Ogunrombi, Susan Sherman, Jack Stone, Nandini Vallath, Peter Vickerman, Tomáš Zábranský, Chris Beyrer
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Summary
In September, 2015, the member states of the UN endorsed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030, which aspire to human-rights-centred approaches to ensuring the health and wellbeing of all people. The SDGs embody both the UN Charter values of rights and justice for all and the responsibility of states to rely on the best scientific evidence as they seek to better humankind. In April, 2016, these same states will consider control of illicit drugs, an area of social policy that has been fraught with controversy and thought of as inconsistent with human rights norms, and in which scientific evidence and public health approaches have arguably had too limited a role.
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Case Report
Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with Zika virus infection
Patrícia Brasil, Patricia Carvalho Sequeira, Andrea D’Avila Freitas, Heruza Einsfeld Zogbi, Guilherme Amaral Calvet, Rogerio Valls de Souza, André Machado Siqueira, Marcos Cesar Lima de Mendonca, Rita Maria Ribeiro Nogueira, Ana Maria Bispo de Filippis, Tom Solomon
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