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RESEARCH 
ID: BLT.25.295053
Market landscape of penicillin for syphilis and rheumatic heart disease, WHO South-East Asia Region
-  Gereltuya Dorj, Uhjin Kim, Po-lin Chan, Pradeep Joshi, Abhishek Royal & Karina Razali

ID: BLT.25.294366
Sales of antimicrobials for veterinary use, Bangladesh, 2023
-  SM Sabrina Yesmin, Delfy Góchez, Tanvir Ahmed, Mohammad N Golder, Pondpan Suwanthada, Niels F Fabricius, Mahbub Hossain, ATM Golam Kibria Khan, Romel Mullick, Md Shariful Islam, Umme Habiba, Aninda Rahman, Md Ashraf Hossain & Md Shameem Haidar

ID: BLT.25.295521
Feasibility of paediatric schistosomiasis prevention with praziquantel, Madagascar
-  Valentina Marchese, Diavolana Koecher Andrianarimanana, Sonya Ratefiarisoa, Ariane Guth, Myriam Lassmann, Fiona Franz, Aaron Remkes, Jana Christina Hey, Lara Schramke, André Brito, Tahinamandranto Rasamoelina, Pia Rausche, Olivette Totofotsy, Alexina Olivasoa Zafinimampera, Tiana Randrianarisoa, Haingoniavo Garcia Rambeloson, Elveric Fesia Ratiaharison, Amadou Garba, Irina Kislaya, Clara Fabienne Rasoamanamihaja, Jürgen May, Rivo Andry Rakotoarivelo & Daniela Fusco

ID: BLT.25.295087
How a 10-minute bout requirement for physical activity affects guideline adherence estimates, Germany
-  Julian Brummer, Michael J Stein, Hansjörg Baurecht, Mirko Brandes, Christoph Buck, Antje Hebestreit, Lilian Krist, Michael Leitzmann, Andrea Weber, Volker Harth, Jana-Kristin Heise, Verena Katzke, Thomas Keil, Alexander Kluttig, Claudia Meinke-Franze, Rafael Mikolajczyk, Ute Mons, Katharina Nimptsch, Nadia Obi, Cara Övermöhle, Annette Peters, Tobias Pischon, Börge Schmidt, Matthias B Schulze, Henry Völzke, Stefan N Willich, Florian Herbolsheimer & Karen Steindorf

ID: BLT.25.294889  
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention effectiveness and drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum: a matched parallel cohort study, Kenya
-  Beatrice Rotich, Emmah Kimachas, Joseph Kipkoech, Erastus Kirwa, Christine Markwalter, David Ekai, Ann Mwangi, Suzanne Van Hulle, Diana Menya & Wendy Prudhomme O’Meara

POLICY & PRACTICE   
ID: BLT.25.294650
A scientific advisory body for the International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems
-  Jonathan ML White, Maaya Kita, Eva Krpelanova, Carine Alsokhn, Maria L Costa, Willem Fibbe, Wolfgang Gaebel, Geoffrey M Reed, Dilani Samarawickrema Lokuhetty, Anthony Woolf, Kameshwar Prasad, Meng Zhang, Rolf-Detlef Treede, Christopher G Chute & Robert Jakob on behalf of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee for the International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems

ID: BLT.25.295623
Measurement of maternal mortality, United Republic of Tanzania
-  Ahmad Mohamed Makuwani, Sophia Kagoye, Honorati Masanja, Habib Rutakyamirwa Ismail, Rose Mpembeni, Josephine Shabani, Secilia Kapalata Ng’weshemi, Golden Masika, Leonard Katalambula, Ties Boerma & Claudia Hanson

ID: BLT.25.294844
Capacity for national health policy modelling, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
-  Abdullah Alibrahim & Fadi El-Jardali

ID: BLT.26.295763
When normal ends at the median: a design flaw in child growth charts, India
-  Seetharaman Narayanan, Rajeshwari A Biradar & Yogeswaran Nehru Sivasubramanian

ID: BLT.26.296186 
Accountability for large language models in health care
-  Carlos Fernando Mourão & Luiz Eduardo Juliasse

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD 
ID: BLT.25.294565 
Laboratory tools from the Fleming Fund antimicrobial resistance surveillance programme
-  Cyril Buhler, Ben Amos, N Claire Gordon, Joanna McKenzie, Sriram Raghu, Natalie Moyen, Emmanuel Azore, Stan Fenwick, Manisha Bista, Winfred Amia, Areeya Disratthakit, Sheilla Onasanya, Deborah Nanjebe, Heidi Hopkins, Mathias Besong, Antoinette B Ngandijo, Manish Pathak & Toby Leslie

ID: BLT.25.295599
Health and economic impacts of China’s rural Toilet Revolution
-  Zhenyu Zhang, Qijiong Zhu, Runming Du, Jiarui Wang, Zhisheng Liang, Jingtao Ding, Xiangqun Zheng, Yujun Shen & Zhijie Zheng

ID: BLT.25.295572
An oral health module for use in noncommunicable disease risk factor surveys
-  Nicole Rendell, Habib Benzian, Richard G Watt, Leanne Riley, Eugenio Beltran, Eduardo Bernabe, Jonathan Broadbent, Morẹ́nikẹ́ O Foláyan, Heba Fouad, Nicolas Giraudeau, Nalika Gunawardena, Yuriko Harada, Anja Heilmann, Carolina Hommes, Yuka Makino, Ricardo Martinez, Sudeshni Naidoo, Marco A Peres, Waranuch Pitiphat, Maha El Tantawi, Georgios Tsakos, Elena Tsoy, Renato Venturelli & Benoit Varenne

ID: BLT.25.295594 
Improvements to pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity, Ethiopia
-  Kedir Tahir Hagos, Tsige Gebre-Mariam, David Woo, Abraham Gebregiorgis Kahsay, Mengistab Woldearegay Teferi & Jicui Dong

ID: BLT.25.294262 
Peer-country support for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria programmes, Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger and Togo
-  Casimir Manzengo, Mariama Baissa, Laurent Moyenga, Yeba L Kaaga, Raoul Saizonou, Dismas Baza, Ndoungou S Ba, Rose Diasso-Tingueri, Fatima Aboubakar, Winiga L Koudema, Moussa Bachabi, Dissou Affolabi, Codjo Dandonougbo, Sidzabda CB Kompaore, Dieudonné N Soma, Adjima Combary, Abou Yahaya, Oum R Ganda, Alphazazi Soumana, Anoumou C Dagnra, Abdou G Gbadamassi, Abraham Atekpe, Benita Manzengo, Issa Guire & Omarou Seybou Moussa

PERSPECTIVES   
ID: BLT.25.295382
WHO recommendations for pregnancy and postpartum care should include hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
-  Andrea Solnes Miltenburg, Albert Kihunrwa, Richard Kiritta, Joyce Browne, Benedikte V Lindskog, Johanne Sundby, Joseph R Mwanga & Anne Cathrine Staff

ID: BLT.25.295639 
Occupational heat protection policies
-  Xin Zhou, Shi Huang, Xinman Hu, Weiyi Xu, Yidu Zheng, Hongyuan Li, Haitao Zhao, Xuemei Zhang, Zhen Pu & Ruixiang Lib

ID: BLT.26.295811 
A transdisciplinary research agenda for resilience
-  Anne-Sophie Jung, Victoria Haldane, Cornelia Junghans-Minton, Matthew Harris, Paula de Castro Nunes, Paulo Victor Rodriges de Carvalho, Gustavo Matta & Alessandro Jatobá

ID: BLT.26.295988 
Air pollution across One Health domains
-  David Rojas-Rueda

ID: BLT.26.295804 
Early insights from the Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative
-  Michelle Pentecost

ID: BLT.25.294954 
Establishment of a One Health workforce for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response
-  Ong-orn Prasarnphanich, Carla Berger, Philip AbdelMalik, Uzma Bashir, Raquel Medialdea Carrera, Renee Christensen, Sebastien Cognat, Virginie Dolmazon, Stacie Dunkle, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Melinda Frost, Paula Gomez, Stefany Ildefonso, Gunel Ismayilova, Sylvio Menna, Marion Muehlen, Pryanka Relan, Flavio Salio, Chadia Wannous, Mathieu Boniol & Stéphane de la Rocque

ID: BLT.25.294374 
Epistemic injustice in climate health research
-  Verina Wild, Anthony Capon, Jan-Christoph Heilinger, Cristian Timmermann, Mujahid Torwali & Jakelin Troy

ID: BLT.26.295696 
A case for eliminating Widal testing for enteric fever, India
-  Kamini Walia, Ram Gopalakrishnan, Priscilla Rupali, Camilla Rodrigues, V Ramasubramanian, Veeraraghavan Balaji, Vinod Ohri, Navin Dang, Chand Wattal, Himanshu Reddy, Nitin Bansal & Hina Singh

ID: BLT.26.295870 
Physician assignment of causes of death from verbal autopsies
-  Chalapati Rao, Henry D Kalter, Daniel Chandramohan, Daniel Cobos & Jordana Leitao