Global Health Gateway

The Indian gut microbiome

This timely review discusses the status of gut microbiome studies in the Indian population and highlights the unique opportunities and challenges for such research.

Performance management of health care workers in Uganda

A mixed methodology approach highlights the inadequacies in performance targets and management, unclear performance standards and a lack of adherence to scheduled performance assessments in the Ugandan health sector.

An examination of benefit sharing

A critical examination of the discourse on benefit sharing reveals the concept as changing and lacking a definition; to strengthen advocacy and decisiveness in international benefit sharing practice, a legal framework is needed.

Tuberculosis diagnostics study design

Steve Lawn and colleagues discuss best practice in the design, conduct and interpretation of studies into Determine TB-LAM, a commercially available, lateral-flow urine ‘strip test’ assay, for tuberculosis diagnosis.

Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with antiretroviral therapy is thought to help prevent HIV transmission; Jean-Michel Molina and colleagues discuss the controversy surrounding PrEP in Europe, and highlight the issues that need to be addressed.