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Podcast: How accurate are rapid tests for diagnosing COVID-19?

Several COVID-19 reviews relate to diagnosis. One of these, on the use of rapid point-of-care tests was updated in March 2021. Lead author Jacqueline Dinnes from the University of Birmingham in the UK tells us what they found for antigen tests.

Update (24 Mar 2021): Rapid, point‐of‐care antigen and molecular‐based tests for diagnosis of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection

This is a review update of the original version (published 26 August 2020). The authors now include 64 study reports in 78 study cohorts, evaluating 16 antigen and 5 molecular assays.

Cochrane Systematic Review: UPDATE

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Interventions to improve disposal of child faeces for preventing diarrhoea and soil‐transmitted helminth infection

Assess the effectiveness of interventions to improve the disposal of child faeces for preventing diarrhoea and STH infections.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Public health deworming programmes for soil‐transmitted helminths in children living in endemic areas

To summarize the effects of public health programmes to regularly treat all children with deworming drugs on child growth, haemoglobin, cognition, school attendance, school performance, physical fitness, and mortality.

Cochrane Systematic Review: UPDATE

WHO guidance for refugees in camps: systematic review

The circumstances of people living in refugee camps means that they have distinct medical care requirements. Our objective is to describe clinical guidance in published WHO guidelines that refer to people living in refugee camps; and how evidence and context are used and reported in making recommendations.

Peer-reviewed article

Global health Research Designs and Methods: in conversation with Professor Paul Garner

This Podcast features an interview between Professor Paul Garner with Assistant Global Health Professor Eric Green, who discuss the impact of systematic reviews and Cochrane upon evidence-based medicine and evidence-informed guidelines.

Contact tracing strategies in household and congregate environments to identify cases of tuberculosis in low‐ and moderate‐incidence populations

To assess the effectiveness of novel methods of contact tracing versus current standard of care to identify latent and active cases in low‐ to moderate‐incidence settings.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

WHO interim guidelines for the treatment of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis

This document focuses on the management of patients affected by gambiense HAT and constitutes an update to the WHO therapeutic guidance issued in 2013.

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Larviciding to prevent malaria transmission

Evaluating whether larviciding with chemical or microbial insecticides prevents malaria transmission.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Systematic Review of Genetic Factors in the Etiology of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in African Populations

Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), one of the most aggressive cancers, is endemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, constituting a major health burden.

Peer-reviewed article

Primaquine at alternative dosing schedules for preventing relapse in people with Plasmodium vivax malaria

Primaquine to cure people with Plasmodium vivax malaria: comparing dosing schedules.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

Artemether for severe malaria

Artemether injection for treating people with severe malaria

Cochrane Systematic Review: UPDATE

Rapid initiation of antiretroviral therapy for people living with HIV

To assess the effects of rapid initiation of ART (defined as offering ART within seven days of HIV diagnosis) on treatment outcomes and mortality in people living with HIV (PLWH). We also aim to describe the characteristics of rapid ART interventions used in the included studies.

Cochrane Systematic Review: NEW

A rapid research needs appraisal methodology to identify evidence gaps to inform clinical research priorities in response to outbreaks—results from the Lassa fever pilot

Infectious disease epidemics are a constant threat, and while we can strengthen preparedness in advance, inevitably, we will sometimes be caught unaware by novel outbreaks.

Peer-reviewed article

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