BMJ Global Health

BMJ Global Health is an online journal that provides open access to its content, published by BMJ. It focuses on delivering top-notch, peer-reviewed articles that cater to individuals involved in global health. This includes policymakers, funders, researchers, clinicians, and healthcare workers on the front lines.

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Examining the effect of nearby armed conflict on access to maternal and child health services in Burkina Faso’s primary healthcare facilities

1 week ago | gh.bmj.com | Felix Amberg |Karl Blanchet |Neha Singh |Valéry Ridde

In 2016, terrorist attacks bore immediate impacts on the organisation of care in the capital Ouagadougou with mobilisation of personnel and communication between centres exhibiting effectiveness but challenges with coordination and resource allocation. Terrorist attacks reduced the utilisation of maternal healthcare services at the commune level between 2016 and 2018, including antenatal care visits, facility deliveries and caesarean sections.
Confronting global inequities in palliative care

1 month ago | gh.bmj.com | Anna Peeler |Oladayo Afolabi |Katherine Sleeman |Nahla Gafer

Palliative care has been shown to improve outcomes, yet only about 14% of people around the world who need it receive it, primarily in high-income countries. We describe progress in palliative care development over the last 10 years and identify key systemic barriers to people receiving the care that they need.
Intersectional forces of urban inequality and the global HIV pandemic: a retrospective analysis

2 months ago | gh.bmj.com | Ingrid Katz |Dana Thomson |Kennedy N Otwombe |Sindhu Ravishankar

There is a global rise in growth among urban slum populations in the world, and cities remain the epicentre of the global HIV pandemic. Subnational variation in HIV burden has been well documented with some cities faring better than others. There is a demonstrated link between structural inequalities such as inequalities in education, housing and income, and inequalities in health outcomes.
Advancing global health in an unprecedented (and unpredictable) era

Mar 22, 2025 | gh.bmj.com | Mark G. Shrime

When BMJ Global Health launched 9 years ago, it positioned itself as a forum to address a fundamental, paternalistic information asymmetry in global health.
Gender bias in health financing methods: metrics and data

Mar 6, 2025 | gh.bmj.com | Kalipso Chalkidou |Richard J. Sullivan

Introduction‘[power’s] success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms’. The lancet commission: Women, power and cancer investigates, exposes and challenges the prevailing asymmetries of power in relation to cancer in three domains: Decision-making, knowledge and economics.
Shifting official development assistance during COVID-19: earmarking, donor concentration and loans

Nov 1, 2024 | gh.bmj.com | Liana R. Woskie |Clare Wenham

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For which entrustable professional activities must medical students be prepared if unsupervised patient care without further training is an expectation? An international Global South study

Oct 1, 2024 | gh.bmj.com | Daniel Nel |Marije Hennus |Susanne Peters |Gustavo Salata Romao

DiscussionWorldwide, medical students must be trained to meet the expectations of competent practitioners ready for license.
Innovative transfusion strategies for blood deserts in disaster settings

Oct 1, 2024 | gh.bmj.com | Shreenik Kundu |Ayla Gerk |Robert Glatter |Dan Poenaru

SurgeryBlood disordersPublic HealthGlobal HealthConflicts and natural disasters create ‘blood deserts’ with unmet blood transfusion needs. WHO guidance and the emergency, critical and operative care resolution stress the need for coordinated emergency responses. ‘Walking blood banks’ and drone delivery systems offer innovative solutions for blood supply gaps.
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): the evolution of a global health and development sector

Oct 1, 2024 | gh.bmj.com | David Bradley |Joe Brown |Sara de Wit |Euphrasia Luseka

This research aimed to identify core orienting themes of the WASH sector, as legacies of past processes, that can provide insights for future WASH. We combined documentary analysis with expert interviews to explore how the WASH sector has been shaped over the past 70 years by both internal changes in the sector and the external forces of the global political economy and development apparatus, and how in turn this has impacted on national agendas.
Learning from the Montreal Protocol to improve the global governance of antimicrobial resistance

Sep 1, 2024 | gh.bmj.com | Tina Nanyangwe-Moyo |Gabriel Fezza |Steven Hoffman |Arne Rückert

Governance principles and lessons for AMRRecognising structural imbalances in power, resources and capabilities, equity-promoting provisions in the protocol were key to facilitating cooperation and assistance between developed and developing nations and promoting shared responsibility in research, technology development and knowledge sharing.18Inclusive negotiations (interests): Reconciling conflicting interests of countries at the negotiating table was crucial for the protocol’s success.