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Available online 1 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

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

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