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WHO Guidelines for malaria

The WHO Guidelines for Malaria bring together the WHO's most up-to-date recommendations for malaria. These guidelines supersede two previous WHO publications: the 'Guidelines for the treatment of malaria, third edition' and the 'Guidelines for malaria vector control'. This version of the Guidelines includes recommendations on two new types of insecticide-treated nets.

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Therapeutics for treating mpox in humans

This new review summarizes evidence on the safety and effectiveness of treatments for mpox in humans,

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

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GRADE guidance 24 optimizing the integration of randomized and non-randomized studies of interventions in evidence syntheses and health guidelines

This is the 24th in the ongoing series of articles describing the GRADE approach for assessing the certainty of a body of evidence in systematic reviews and health technology assessments and how to move from evidence to recommendations in guidelines

Peer-reviewed article

Factors that influence parents' and informal caregivers' views and practices regarding routine childhood vaccination: a qualitative evidence synthesis

What factors influence parents’ views and practices around routine childhood vaccines?

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Testing for saturation in qualitative evidence syntheses: an update of HIV adherence in Africa

When do we have enough qualitative research on a topic?

Peer-reviewed article

Update: Mass drug administration for malaria

Treating everyone for malaria: does it eliminate the disease? Some policy experts recommend giving antimalarial drugs to everyone living in a malarious area at the same time to accelerate elimination of the disease, but this is controversial.

Cochrane Systematic Review: UPDATE

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.

Peer-reviewed article

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

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