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Impact of diagnostic strategies for tuberculosis using lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan assay in people living with HIV

The aim of this review was to determine whether the use of LF‐LAM testing had an effect on death and other patient‐important outcomes in people living with HIV.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Podcast: Ivermectin for preventing and treating COVID-19

Researchers from the COVID-19 Evidence Ecosystem (CEOsys) project collaborated with the LSTM-based Cochrane Infectious Disease Group (CIDG) to carry out a systematic review, to explore the effects of ivermectin in preventing and treating COVID-19 infection.

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Impact of diagnostic strategies for tuberculosis using lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan assay in people living with HIV

The aim of this review was to determine whether the use of LF‐LAM testing had an effect on death and other patient‐important outcomes in people living with HIV.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Podcast: Ivermectin for preventing and treating COVID-19

Researchers from the COVID-19 Evidence Ecosystem (CEOsys) project collaborated with the LSTM-based Cochrane Infectious Disease Group (CIDG) to carry out a systematic review, to explore the effects of ivermectin in preventing and treating COVID-19 infection.

Point‐of‐care tests detecting HIV nucleic acids for diagnosis of HIV‐1 or HIV‐2 infection in infants and children aged 18 months or less.

This review aims to determine the accuracy of molecular point‐of‐care tests for detecting the main types of HIV infection (HIV‐1/HIV‐2) in infants and children aged 18 months or less.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Primary‐level worker interventions for the care of people living with mental disorders and distress in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Community‐based primary‐level workers (PWs) are an important strategy for addressing gaps in mental health service delivery in low‐ and middle‐income countries.

Cochrane Systematic Review: UPDATE

Cochrane Review: Ivermectin for preventing and treating COVID-19

This is a new Cochrane Review that includes 14 randomized controlled trials with 1678 participants

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Plague Transmission from Corpses and Carcasses

Knowing whether human corpses can transmit plague will inform policies for handling the bodies of those who have died of the disease. Literature was analyzed to evaluate risk for transmission of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, from human corpses and animal carcasses.

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Ivermectin treatment in humans for reducing malaria transmission

This Cochrane review explored whether community administration of ivermectin influences malaria transmission.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Screening tests for active pulmonary tuberculosis in children

The aim of this review is to determine the accuracy of screening tests for active pulmonary tuberculosis in children in high‐risk groups, such as children with HIV and close contacts of people with tuberculosis.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Covid Guidelines India

LSTM contributes to India specific guidelines for the treatment and management of COVID-19

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Podcast: Do probiotics help to treat acute infectious diarrhoea?

First author, Shelui Collinson from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK describes the latest findings from the update of this review .

Anthelmintics for people with neurocysticercosis

The objective of this review was to assess the effects of anthelmintics on people with neurocysticercosis.

Cochrane Systematic Review: UPDATE

WHO guidelines for plague management

WHO guidelines for plague management: revised recommendations for the use of rapid diagnostic tests, fluoroquinolones for case management and personal protective equipment for prevention of post-mortem transmission

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