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Available online 26 June 2025:

RESEARCH 
ID: BLT.24.292529 
Screening programmes and breast cancer mortality: an observational study of 194 countries
-  Syed Mahfuz Al Hasan, Debbie L Bennett & Adetunji T Toriola

ID: BLT.24.292748 
Responding to avian influenza in poultry farms in Victoria, Australia
-  K Blaney, L Cardamone, NE Clarke, MJ Hayes, M Muleme, BJ McNamara, E Jalil, S Holwill, CK Lim, H O’Brien, E Layton, A Fidao, S Salmon, R Kinnear, M Ford, MA Hussain & E Athan

ID: BLT.24.292143 
Diagnostic criteria for severe acute malnutrition and fatal outcomes in children aged 6–59 months, Nigeria
-  Emmanuel Grellety, Erica Simons, Mathilde Mousset, Thomas Roederer, Avilah-Phrygie Amakade-Woyengba, Sabino Malwal, Olatunji Joyce Adebayo, Bérengère Guais, Michel O Lacharité, Guyguy Manangama & Nafisa Sani Nass

ID: BLT.24.293307 
Collateral damage from violent incidents: human costs of polio immunization
-  Kamran Badizadegan & Kimberly M Thompson

ID: BLT.24.291815 
Modelling international spread of clade IIb mpox on the Asia continent
-  Toshiaki R Asakura, Sung-mok Jung, Hiroaki Murayama, Cyrus Ghaznavi, Haruka Sakamoto, Ayaka Teshima, Fuminari Miura & Akira Endo

ID: BLT.24.292424 
Caesarean section for stillborn babies, Benin, Malawi, Uganda and United Republic of Tanzania
-  MR Alsina, L Benova, B Kandeya, M Abeid, MCU Agossou, N Orsini, E Chipeta, H Kidanto, AM Pembe, JP Dossou, P Waiswa, A Christou & C Hanson

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD
ID: BLT.24.292204
Measured and self-reported hypertension among women of reproductive age, Gambia, Kenya, Mozambique
-  Laura A Magee, Esperanca Sevene, Anne Rerimoi, Rachel Craik, Ashley Muteti, Marleen Temmerman, Marianne Vidler, Umberto D’Alessandro, Anna Roca, Jeffrey N Bone, Ash Sandhu, Marie-Laure Volvert, Hawanatu Jah, Salesio Macuacua, Angela Koech, Hiten D Mistry, Peter von Dadelszen & The PRECISE Network

POLICY & PRACTICE   
ID: BLT.24.292585
Roadmap towards zero leprosy, Pakistan
-  Anil Fastenau, Ali Murtaza, Abdul Salam, Muhammed Iqbal, Nimer Ortuno-Gutierrez, Fabian Schlumberger, Sophie CW Unterkircher, Elias Treml, Thomas Hambridge, Epco Hasker, Chris Schmotzer & Paul Saunderson

SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS   
ID: BLT.24.292608
Treatment of children and adolescents with post-traumatic stress in humanitarian crises: systematic review and meta-analysis
-  Fiona E Douglas, Chirag Shroff & Richard Meiser-Stedman

ID: BLT.24.293077
Incidence of pregnancy-associated acute kidney injury in low- and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis
-  Phu Nguyen Trong Tran, Anyarin Wannakittirat, Valerie Luyckx, Kate Wiles, Manjusha Yadla, Rajasekara Chakravarthi, Marlies Ostermann, Vin-Cent Wu, Ravindra L Mehta & Nattachai Srisawat

PERSPECTIVES   
ID: BLT.24.293074
Improving the measurement of adult mortality
-  Ashira Menashe-Oren, Martin Nyahoda, Romesh Silva, Martin Bratschi, Ruxana Jina, Philip W Setel, Adam Karpati, Bruno Masquelier, Petra Nahmias, Afsaneh Yazdani, Tanja Sejersen, Haoyi Chenf & Stephane Helleringer