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  1. Disposal practices for unused and expired medications among outpatients in three healthcare facilities in Ibadan, Nigeria: a cross-sectional analysis
  2. Who does not want to quit? Determinants of no intention to stop smoking in a population-based sample of current smokers
  3. Self-Rated Health by Time Since Smoking Cessation
  4. A structured training intervention on tobacco harm reduction for mental health workers across two psychiatric hospitals in Malawi: a quasi-experimental pre–post study
  5. Differences in respiratory wheezing between current exclusive e-cigarette users, current exclusive cigarette smokers, and never users of either product: findings from a population-based study
  6. Disposal practices of unused and expired medications among healthcare practitioners in Ibadan, Nigeria: results from a cross-sectional survey
  7. An Equity‐Focused Systematic Analysis of Antimicrobial Resistance National Action Plans in 14 West African Countries
  8. Pre-pandemic diabetes and risk of long COVID: longitudinal evidence
  9. Preoperative smoking cessation interventions and their effects on smoking abstinence and postoperative outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  10. Strengthening antimicrobial resistance surveillance across African military settings
  11. Association between household secondhand tobacco smoke exposure and regular e-cigarette use among adolescents: evidence from a national school-based survey
  12. Socioeconomic deprivation and its association with polypharmacy in England: results from a national cross-sectional survey
  13. Physical disability and risk of incident hypertension: a prospective cohort analysis
  14. Mapping Disease Burden of Major Depressive Disorder and Its Risk Factors in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
  15. Predictors of e-cigarette use among individuals with asthma: findings from a cross-sectional population-based study
  16. Self-medication among pregnant women in Ibadan, Nigeria: an analysis of determinants, knowledge, perception, attitude, and practice
  17. ‘E-cigarette smoking’ is a misleading term: a critical review of its use in academic literature
  18. When meta-analysis misleads: the need for methodological integrity in e-cigarette research
  19. Improved aerobic capacity in a randomized controlled trial of noncombustible nicotine and tobacco products
  20. Economic burden attributable to high BMI-caused cancers: a global level analysis between 2002 and 2021
  21. Closing gender equality gaps in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
  22. Access, Utilization and Barriers to  Malaria Preventive Intervention  for Children under the Age of Five in Flood-Affected Region in South-South, Nigeria
  23. Leveraging artificial intelligence to combat antimicrobial resistance in geriatric care
  24. Left behind no more: ensuring equitable vaccine access to curb mpox in Africa
  25. Antibiotic Use and Misuse in Maritime Settings: Challenges and Implications for Global Antimicrobial Resistance Response
  26. Determinants of knowledge of risks associated with cigarette smoking among adolescents in Scotland
  27. Antimicrobial Resistance on Ships: A Narrative Review
  28. Measuring and addressing violence against women with disabilities in Africa
  29. XEC severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 subvariant in Africa: A rising health alarm
  30. Assessing the knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions toward smoking cessation among medical students in Rwanda
  31. Distribution, Risk Factors and Epidemiological Trends of Pancreatic Cancer Across Countries’ Income Levels: A Comprehensive Analysis
  32. Self-rated health differences between exclusive e-cigarette users and exclusive cigarette smokers: evidence from the 2017–2019 Scottish Health Survey
  33. Antimicrobial Resistance in Slums: A Call for Global Action
  34. Factors contributing to under-5 child mortality in Nigeria: A narrative review
  35. Rethinking Global Health Research: Decolonization and Equity in Epidemiology
  36. The role of artificial intelligence in enhancing healthcare for people with disabilities
  37. Understanding research gaps and priorities for tobacco harm reduction in low-income and middle-income countries
  38. Utilizing Administrative Data to Inform Health Promotion, Policy, and Practice
  39. Top 10 Public Health Challenges for 2024: Charting a New Direction for Global Health Security
  40. Mpox as an emerging health threat for survivors of sex trafficking
  41. Comparing self-rated health among exclusive e-cigarette users and traditional cigarette smokers: an analysis of the Health Survey for England 2019
  42. Antimicrobial prescribing practices and factors associated with antimicrobial prescribing in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Oyo state: A retrospective study
  43. Lady health workers smoking cessation initiative in rural Pakistan
  44. Caught between violence: Mpox virus and the perils of neglect in Africa
  45. Regulation of health professions education and the growth of schools in Somalia
  46. Broadening the Global Mpox Response: A Critical Reflection on Vulnerable Populations
  47. Sex Workers and the Mpox Response in Africa
  48. Loneliness is associated with smoking and alcohol consumption in older adults: Findings from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey
  49. Disease Burden, Risk Factors, and Temporal Trends in Breast Cancer in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Global Study
  50. Prevalence, demographic, socio-economic, and lifestyle factors associated with cigarette, e-cigarette, and dual use: evidence from the 2017–2021 Scottish Health Survey
  51. Public Health Word of the Year 2023 — Conflict
  52. The realities of adolescent sexual behaviours in Nigeria: a narrative review
  53. Sexual and reproductive health rights in the era of artificial intelligence
  54. Leaving no one behind: addressing the sexuality of people with disabilities
  55. Climate change, flooding, and HIV transmission in Africa: Potential relationships and a call for action
  56. Prevalence and Determinants of Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents in Thailand: Evidence From 2021 Global School-Based Health Survey
  57. Predictors and Prevalence of Alcohol and Cannabis Co-use Among Filipino Adolescents: Evidence From a School-based Student Health Survey
  58. Assessment of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in Artificial Intelligence Among Healthcare Professionals in Mogadishu, Somalia
  59. Antimicrobial resistance and people living with disabilities
  60. Harnessing the potential of African youth for transforming health research in Africa
  61. Navigating the digital frontier during the COVID‐19 pandemic and EVALI epidemic: The impact of social media on public health
  62. Somalia’s Medical Education and Regulation: A Review of the Health Regulatory Landscape
  63. Addressing language inequities in global health science scholarly publishing
  64. Knowledge, perception, and willingness of emerging Public Health Advocates to effectively communicate about smoking cessation and Tobacco Harm Reduction in Africa
  65. Exacerbation of food insecurity in Africa: A consequence of the dual threat of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine crisis
  66. Awareness, Coverage, and Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccination among Undergraduate Students in Nigeria
  67. How the World Bank's Pandemic Fund can address health inequities
  68. Drug take-back program: assessment of knowledge, practices, and barriers to safe disposal of unused medication among healthcare students in a Nigerian university
  69. Ten golden rules for optimal antibiotic use in hospital settings: the WARNING call to action
  70. Antimicrobial stewardship: community pharmacists’ antibiotic dispensing practices, knowledge, and perception regarding antibiotics and antibiotic resistance
  71. Exploring electronic cigarette portrayals: a content and thematic analysis of African online news coverage
  72. Beyond rhetoric in the pandemic treaty: Prioritizing equity and inclusion for marginalized populations
  73. The hidden mental health crisis of antimicrobial resistance
  74. The Roles of Pharmacists in Responding to Public Health Emergencies: A Case of COVID-19
  75. Public Health Word of the Year 2022 – New Normal
  76. Knowledge, Perception, and Willingness of Emerging Public Health Advocates to Effectively Communicate about Smoking Cessation and Tobacco Harm Reduction in Africa
  77. The global antimicrobial resistance response effort must not exclude marginalised populations
  78. Taliban's war on educating girls and women must end now: A call for global actions
  79. Top 10 public health challenges to track in 2023: Shifting focus beyond a global pandemic
  80. Balancing the risks and benefits of antibiotic use in a globalized world: the ethics of antimicrobial resistance
  81. Portrayal of electronic cigarettes in the news
  82. Decolonizing Epidemiological Research: A Critical Perspective
  83. The Pandemic Treaty, the Pandemic Fund, and the Global Commons: our scepticism
  84. Monkeypox virus among seafarers is not to be neglected
  85. Strengthening Africa’s capacity for vaccine research: Needs and challenges
  86. The COVID-19 pandemic and health workforce brain drain in Nigeria
  87. Bibliometric analysis of contributions to COVID-19 research in Malaysia
  88. Socioeconomic inequalities in prostate cancer screening in low- and middle-income countries: An analysis of the demographic and health surveys between 2010 and 2019
  89. Fixing Data Gaps for Population Health in Africa: An Urgent Need
  90. Self-medication practices among seafarers: a bibliometric review
  91. Monkeypox outbreak: The need to include prisons in public health response
  92. Mental health implications of monkeypox: An urgent need for action
  93. Nigeria End Malaria Council: What to expect
  94. Navigating the COVID-19 outbreak in Zambia
  95. Perspective Chapter: Tobacco Control in Sub-Saharan Africa – Challenges and Recommendations
  96. Increasing challenges of malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa: Priorities for public health research and policymakers
  97. Undergraduate students’ involvement in research: Values, benefits, barriers and recommendations
  98. Neglecting antibiotic stewardship in prisons: A concern for antimicrobial resistance response
  99. Targeting the wrong enemies: Monkeys are not responsible for the current outbreak of monkeypox
  100. Top ten public health challenges to track in 2022
  101. Addressing the social issues around vaccination could be the pivotal strategy to achieve the 2022 COVID-19 vaccination coverage target
  102. Tobacco control needs a choice-based approach to curb cigarette smoking
  103. Nigeria's scientific contributions to COVID-19: A bibliometric analysis
  104. Why are missed opportunities for immunisation and immunisation defaulting among children indistinguishable?
  105. Factors influencing severity of recurrent malaria in a conflict-affected state of South Sudan: an unmatched case-control study
  106. Revisiting the issue of access to medicines in Africa: Challenges and recommendations
  107. Decisive or impulsive? Re-examining Africa’s lockdown response to COVID-19
  108. Exposure to household air pollution from cooking fuel in Ugandan households and associated household factors: a retrospective analysis of demographic and health survey data
  109. Medical Use of Cannabis in Africa: The Pharmacists’ Perspective
  110. Why many African countries may not achieve the 2022 COVID-19 vaccination coverage target
  111. Impact of Nyiragongo Volcanic Eruptions on the Resilience to the COVID-19 and Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  112. Community engagement in global health research
  113. Challenges facing pharmaceutical care provision in Nigerian tertiary hospitals: A short review
  114. COVID 19 and Neglected Tropical Diseases in Africa: Perspectives from Ghana
  115. Could seafarers serve as medium of transmission of resistant bacteria?
  116. COVID-19 surveillance systems in 13 African countries
  117. The status of neglected tropical diseases amidst COVID-19 in Africa: Current evidence and recommendations
  118. Can Africa achieve herd immunity?
  119. Why climate change can cause new diseases, and what we need to do about it
  120. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on antenatal healthcare services in Sub-Saharan Africa
  121. Leveraging mobile health technology towards Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria
  122. The African continent needs to prioritise planetary health
  123. Dealing with two ‘SARS’ outbreaks in Nigeria: The public health implications
  124. Enhancing preventive medicine over curative medicine: Role of telemedicine
  125. Increasing coverage of vaccination by pharmacists in Nigeria; an urgent need
  126. Prison health during the COVID-19 era in Africa
  127. Uneven power dynamics must be levelled in COVID-19 vaccines access and distribution
  128. How West African countries prioritize health
  129. What sub-Saharan African countries can learn from malaria elimination in China
  130. Self-medication with antibiotics among seafarers: a public health issue
  131. Zoonotic infectious diseases and maritime seaport: areas of concern
  132. Trends in Household Air Pollution Contributed by the Type of Cooking Fuel Used in Ugandan Households from 2000 to 2016 and Associated Household Factors: An Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys
  133. COVID‐19 calls for health systems strengthening in Africa: A case of Nigeria
  134. Ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccines among marginalised populations in Africa
  135. COVID-19 and its impacts: The situation in Niger republic
  136. COVID‐19 and progress towards achieving universal health coverage in Africa: A case of Nigeria
  137. The use of antibiotics in COVID-19 management: a rapid review of national treatment guidelines in 10 African countries
  138. Prevalence, risk factors and impact of cellular immunity on intestinal parasitosis among people living with HIV at Auchi, Edo State, Nigeria
  139. Pharmacoeconomics in Africa: needs, prospect and challenges
  140. Risk communication and community engagement strategies for COVID-19 in 13 African countries
  141. Community distribution of oxygen: a unique COVID-19 intervention
  142. Factors influencing severity of recurrent malaria in a conflict-affected State of south Sudan
  143. Towards improving community pharmacy-based mental health services in Nigeria
  144. Vaccinate people in Africa’s prisons against COVID-19
  145. UK aid and research double accounting hits SDG projects
  146. COVID-19: A novel burden on the fragile health system of Angola
  147. COVID-19 in a shattered health system: Case of Libya
  148. Dam if You Do, Dam if You Don't: Politics and Floods in the Shadow of COVID-19 in Sudan
  149. Psychosocial factors of stigma and relationship to healthcare services among adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in Kano state, Nigeria
  150. Willingness to Vaccinate against COVID-19 among Healthcare Workers: An Online Survey in 10 Countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
  151. Who Will Pay for the COVID-19 Vaccines for Africa?
  152. Towards 90-90-90 Target: COVID-19 and HIV Response in Africa
  153. COVID-19 Highlights the Need for Inclusive Responses to Public Health Emergencies in Africa
  154. Drug supply shortage in Nigeria during COVID-19: efforts and challenges
  155. Drug supply situation in Rwanda during COVID-19: issues, efforts and challenges
  156. Toward pharmacy-based smoking cessation services in Nigeria: Knowledge, perception and practice of community pharmacists
  157. “Annals of Public Health Issues” Has Come to Stay!
  158. COVID-19 and Antimicrobial Resistance: A Review
  159. The challenge of dearth of information in Tanzania’s COVID-19 response
  160. Towards an inclusive health agenda: people who inject drugs and the COVID-19 response in Africa
  161. Volcanic and Limnic eruption: a potential threat to one health
  162. When it is available, will we take it? Social media users’ perception of hypothetical COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria
  163. Key population of HIV should not be forgotten in Africa's COVID-19 response: Nigeria as a case study
  164. Psychosocial Factors of Stigma and Relationship to Healthcare Service among Adolescents Living With HIV/AIDS in Kano State, Nigeria
  165. Identifying the Gaps in HIV Prevention and Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria
  166. Lesson learned from student-led one hundred days awareness on antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria
  167. The impact of COVID-19 on pharmacy students in Sudan: A cross-sectional survey
  168. Sex Workers Should not Be Forgotten in Africa’s COVID-19 Response
  169. COVID-19 in Nigeria: Is the pharmaceutical sector spared?
  170. Drug shortage crisis in Sudan in times of COVID-19
  171. Last fight of wild polio in Africa: Nigeria’s battle
  172. Impact of COVID-19 on Pharmacy Education
  173. Polio in Afghanistan: The Current Situation amid COVID-19
  174. Addressing COVID-19 in Afghanistan: What are the efforts and challenges?
  175. When it is available, will we take it? Public perception of hypothetical COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria
  176. Conflict and COVID-19: a double burden for Afghanistan’s healthcare system
  177. Prospects of BNAbs in Management of HIV/AIDS
  178. Impact of COVID‐19 on access to healthcare in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Current evidence and future recommendations
  179. Nigeria, COVID-19 and the dearth of health workers
  180. Rural communities in Africa should not be forgotten in responses to COVID ‐19
  181. Assessment of Health Budgetary Allocation and Expenditure Toward Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria
  182. Philippines braces for the typhoon season amidst COVID-19
  183. COVID-19 in the Elderly and the Immunocompromised
  184. Proposed model for hospital and community pharmacy services during COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria
  185. COVID-19: Community Pharmacy Practice in Africa
  186. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on medicine security in Africa: Nigeria as a case study
  187. Addressing COVID-19 in Malawi
  188. Mineral composition of two Stylosanthes species oversown in natural pasture: effect of tillage practice and sowing method
  189. COVID-19 Pandemic: Medical and Pharmacy Education in Nigeria
  190. Current efforts and challenges facing responses to 2019-nCoV in Africa
  191. SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing in Africa: needs and challenges
  192. The formidable task of fighting COVID-19 in Sudan
  193. The First Eighty-Four (84) Days of COVID-19 in Africa: Analysis of Incidence and Deaths Associated with COVID-19
  194. Coronavirus disease-19 and access to medicines in Africa
  195. Depression Among Pharmacy Students in Nigeria: Is It a Neglected Issue?
  196. Burden of Tuberculosis and Challenges Facing Its Eradication in West Africa
  197. Letter to the Editor: Pharmacy Education in Africa
  198. Prevalence and Socio-economic Impacts of Malnutrition Among Children in Uganda
  199. Policy Reform Towards Implementing Harm Reduction in Nigeria
  200. Assessment of self-medication practices with antibiotics among undergraduate university students in Rwanda
  201. Systematic Review of Factors Influencing Access to HAART by Pregnant Women Living with HIV