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Available online 22 September 2025:

RESEARCH 
ID: BLT.24.292682 
Water quality and child undernutrition: evidence from 29 low- and middle-income countries
-  Dung Duc Le & Long Thanh Giang

ID: BLT.24.292706 
Associations between digital maturity in health and primary health care performance, 109 countries
-  Lena Kan, Yoko Shimada, Abdulaziz Mohammed Hussenm, Arisa Shichijo Kiyomoto, Shivani Pandya, Patricia Mechael, Binyam Tilahun, Meredith Kimball, Marelize Gorgens, Malarvizhi Veerappan, Ethan Wong & Smisha Agarwal

ID: BLT.25.293226 
A simulation-based policy analysis of anticipatory action for cholera outbreaks, Democratic Republic of the Congo
-  Pei Shan Loo, Jefferson K Rajah, Hugo Jose Herrera de Leon, Birgit Kopainsky & Leonardo Milano

ID: BLT.24.292448 
Crowdsourced image-based surveillance for neglected tropical diseases, Nigeria
-  Uchechukwu Madukaku Chukwuocha, Ayoola Oluwaseun Bosede, Christopher Sule Oyamienlen, Joshua Chisom Ogboeze, David Chinecherem Innocent, Chidera Chisom Obasi, Akajiaku Chukwunyere Chukwuocha, Obiageli Nebe, Sammy Olufemi Sam-Wobo, Chinyere Nneka Ukaga, Ikechukwu Nosike Dozie & Bertram Ekejiuba Nwoke

POLICY & PRACTICE   
ID: BLT.24.292177
Ethical clinical trial design and differences in treatment effects
-  Roger J Lewis, Kert Viele, Margareth Ndomondo-Sigonda, Samba Sow, Elvis Temfack & Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft

ID: BLT.25.293460
Parkinson disease treatments on national essential medicines lists, African Region
-  Natasha Fothergill-Misbah, Rodrigo Cataldi, Mark Stothard, Neerja Chowdhary, Njideka Okubadejo, Bernadette Cappello, Richard Walker & Tarun Dua

ID: BLT.25.293437
Regulatory frameworks and evidence requirements for traditional, complementary and integrative medicines; Australia, Canada, China, Republic of Korea, the United States of America and the European Union
-  Qi Chen, Hao-Jin Cheng, Zhao-Xiang Bian, Ai-Ping Lyu, Yue Yang & Kam Wa Chan

ID: BLT.25.293414
Policy implications of WHO’s global traditional medicine strategy 2025–2034
-  Yuk Ming Alice Wong, Sangyoung Ahn, Aditi Bana, Pradeep Kumar Dua, Rudi Eggers, Shyama Kuruvilla, Yachan Li, Qin Liu, Yunhui Shen & Sungchol Kim

ID: BLT.25.293487
Traditional knowledge on health: balancing innovation, ethics and intellectual property
-  Sumeet Goel, Motlalepula Matsabisa, Fei Jiao, Caio Portella, Vijayalakshmi Asthana, Nilce Ekandzi, Manjeet S Saluja, Stefan Germann & João P Souza

ID: BLT.24.292882
Indigenous rights, health and traditional medicine systems
-  Nicole Redvers, Kelly Menzel, Danya Carroll, Carol Zavaleta, Sylvia Kokunda, Daniel M Kobei & Juan Nelson Rojas

ID: BLT.25.293411
Data on the use of traditional and complementary medicine, WHO Region of the Americas
-  Natalia Houghton, Herfina Nababan & Ernesto Bascolo

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW   
ID: BLT.25.293465
Integration of traditional and complementary medicine into primary health-care systems, a systematic review
-  Minmin Wang, Zuokun Liu, Yinuo Sun, Yuyang Zhang, Abdul Ghaffar & Minghui Ren

ID: BLT.24.291941
Use of snake antivenom in the Region of the Americas: a systematic review
-  Clara Guerra-Duarte, Viviane Pauline de Sousa, Gladstony de Oliveira-Sousa & Marcos Paulo Gomes Mol

PERSPECTIVES   
ID: BLT.25.293646 
Integration of mental health services with HIV prevention, treatment and care
-  Erin K Ferenchick, Zeinab Hijazi, Anurita Bains, Savvy K Brar, Ani Shakarishvili, Paul Bolton, Neerja Chowdhary, Tarun K Dua, Jerome Galea, Yves Miel Zuniga, Gavin Reid & Scott Laurence Chiossi

ID: BLT.24.292888 
Artificial intelligence in traditional medicine: policy and governance strategies
-  Sameer Pujari, Rajeshwari Singh, Goh Cheng Soon, Tanuja Nesari, Ricardo Ghelman, Yu Zhao, Kanika Kalra, Shada Alsalamah, Richelle George, Shyama Kuruvilla & Alain Labrique

ID: BLT.25.294146 
Implementation of the WHO Pandemic Agreement
-  WooJung Jon