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Available online 16 April 2026:

RESEARCH 
ID: BLT.25.293642 
Hepatitis A virus endemicity and vaccine policy, India
-  Avinash R Deoshatwar, Anisha Pulinchani, Basavaraj Mathapati, Madhu Sudan, Suman Manohar Mhatre, Anuradha Patil, Supriya Hundekar, Ganesh Chandra Sahoo, Ashish Kumar, Sahil Sharma, Amrit Virk, Mushtaq Khan Kayamkhani, Suresh Choudhary, Preet Khona, Jagadish Nuchin Nuchin, Gopal Dutt, Prashant Kumar, Ragini Mishr, Laisram Raichandra Singh, Johnson Moirangthem, Mruga Dave, Abhijeet V Jadhav, Shrinivasa B, Vidya Arankalle & Kavita S Lole

ID: BLT.25.294507 
Carbon emissions associated with antenatal testing for hepatitis B prophylaxis eligibility, the Gambia
-  Alassane Ndiaye, Florian Motyl, Sainabou Drammeh, Bakary Dibba, Alexandra Famiglietti, Maya Whittaker, Kévin Jean, Maud Lemoine, Sylvie Boyer, Dramane Kania, Alice Nanelin Guingané, Naofumi Hashimoto, Yasuhito Tanaka, Wataru Sugiura, Kris Murray, Christopher Vandi, Umberto D’Alessandro, Florence Guivel-Benhassine, Hélène Da Conceicao, Guillaume Pakula, Gibril Ndow & Yusuke Shimakawa

ID: BLT.25.294978 
Governance of artificial intelligence for health system, WHO European Region
-  Keyrellous Adib, Nicholas Letchford, Hanna Emilia Dunning, Nagui Salama, Yiannos Tolias, Jerome De Barros, Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Hans Henri P Kluge & David Novillo-Ortiz

ID: BLT.25.293829 
Maternal and neonatal outcomes in a cohort of pregnant women during conflict, Gaza Strip
-  Zeina Jamaluddine, Reham Jaffal, Sanaa Al Najjar,b Mahmoud Al Kahlout, Tamam Abu Zeid, Hala Mughari, Ghada Al Jadba, Rami Habash, Bassam A Abu Hamad, Akihiro Seita & Oona Maeve Renee Campbell

ID: BLT.25.294190 
Data gaps affecting health-related sustainable development goal indicators
-  Keyrellous Adib, Nagui Salama, Nicholas Letchford, Stefania Davia, Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Hans Henri P Kluge & David Novillo-Ortiz

ID: BLT.25.294361 
Cost of adapting the International Guide for Monitoring Child Development, Guatemala and India
-  Scott Tschida, Anuj Mundra, Revan Mustafa, Amruta Bandal, Magdalena Guarchaj, Karyn Choy, Priyamvada Das, Sara Hernandez, Ashwini Kalantri, Abhishek V Raut, Anushree Sane, Roopa Srinivasan, Vibha Krishnamurthy, Ilgi Ertem, Subodh S Gupta, Peter Rohloff & Chunling Lu

ID: BLT.25.294847
Diplomatic roles of regional coordinators for WHO Member States
-  Nikica Daraboš, Monica Stanovic & Danira Matijaca

POLICY & PRACTICE   
ID: BLT.25.294139
Ethical and social difficulties of addressing environmental harms related to health research
-  Gabrielle Samuel & Federica Lucivero

ID: BLT.25.293259
Geographic priorities in the global action plan for wasting: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Malawi
-  Adriana Newman, Indi Trehan, Masresha Tessema, Kenneth M Maleta, Hama A Diallo, Moses Ngari, Daniel Muhinja & Kirkby D Tickell

ID: BLT.25.294599
Policy analysis and expert consultation on cross-border telehealth services
-  Caroline Perrin Franck, Salim Azzabi, Joscelyn Magdeleine, Pierre Sauvé, Derrick Muneene & Alain Labrique

ID: BLT.25.294093
Application of tobacco control experience to alcohol consumption
-  Prashant Kumar Singh, Chandan Kumar & Shalini Singh

SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS   
ID: BLT.25.293555
Online sources of health-related traditional knowledge: content for a traditional medicine library
-  Carmen VM Abdala, Mariana C Schveitzer, Ricardo Ghelman, Mirelys Puerta-Diaz, Maria S A Sousa, Viswajanani J Sattigeri, Geetha K Gopalakrishna Pillai, Maki Kajiwara, Shyama Kuruvilla & João P Souza

ID: BLT.25.294408
Interventions to reduce antimicrobial use in livestock: a systematic review and evidence map
-  Fiona Emdin, Kayla Strong, Jaskeerat Singh, Daniela Corno, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Heather Ganshorn, Arne Ruckert, Jeremy M Grimshaw & Mathieu Poirier

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD 
ID: BLT.24.293024 
National guideline development and adaptation, Egypt
-  Mehrnaz Kheirandish, Malika A Tamim, Arash Rashidian, Riham El-Asady, Naeema Al Qasseer, Gasser Gad El-Kareem, Mohamed Mostafa Lotayef, Mohammed Mourad Youssif, Elie A Akl, Nathan Ford & Paul Garner

PERSPECTIVES   
ID: BLT.25.294704 
A positive focus on the mental health of parents
-  Indrani Paul, Richard Appiah, Nitika Pant Pai & Marilyn N Ahun

ID: BLT.25.294480 
Justice in priority-setting for research on health and climate change
-  Soumyadeep Bhaumik

ID: BLT.25.294114 
Towards elimination of Chagas disease
-  Debbie Vermeij, Carlos M Morel, Claudia Chamas, Luiz V P Mendes & Andrea Silvestre-Sousa

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.25.295448
Equitable provision of tuberculosis prevention and care for vulnerable populations
-  Kerri Viney, Farai Mavhunga, Annabel Baddeley, Avinash Kanchar & Tereza Kasaeva

ID: BLT.26.296138
Commitment to reducing the burden of pre-eclampsia
-  Jeremy Farrar, Ayman Abdelmohsen, Helga Fogstad, Janet Ginnard, Angel Mwiche, C Danilo Nápoles Méndez, Qurrat ul Ain, Petr Velebil, Anna af Ugglas, Shyam Desai, Paul Guerby, Frank Louwen, Angela Makris, Amilia Afzan Mohd Jamil, Graeme Smith, Sindhu K Srinivas & Peter von Dadelszen