Resources

Vital Strategies successfully completed implementation of the USAID-funded TREAT TB project, aimed at supporting research to optimize the effectiveness of TB diagnosis and treatment.

The Overdose Prevention Program partnered with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Health in Justice Action Lab, and other stakeholders to deliver a first-of-its-kind training on criminal defense against drug overdose homicide cases in Pennsylvania. The curriculum and presentation materials from the training are available, and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has a useful resource page on drug overdose homicide.

The effects of opioid overdose can be dramatically reduced through increased access to the opioid antagonist naloxone. But naloxone is too often unavailable when and where it is most needed, partly due to its continued status as a prescription medication. This commentary argues that the Food and Drug Administration should reclassify naloxone from prescription-only to over-the-counter status.

This article summarizes lessons learned in the first 2 years of the Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL) hypertension management program, operated in coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners.

Of the approximately 1.4 billion people with hypertension worldwide, only about one in seven has their blood pressure successfully treated and adequately controlled.

Preventable noncommunicable diseases, mostly cardiovascular diseases, are responsible for 38 million deaths annually. A few well-documented interventions have the potential to prevent many of these deaths, but a large proportion of the population in need does not have access to these interventions.

This article highlights how preemption—the ability of a higher level of government to limit the regulatory power of a lower level of government—has both created and alleviated health inequities. It proposes the development of an equity-first preemption framework to establish evidence-based criteria for assessing when preemption will enhance or inhibit equity and a research agenda for developing the evidence necessary to inform and operationalize the framework.