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What systems fix would unlock the biggest equity gains? Should countries target patients with TB or conduct universal interventions? What does self-reliance look like post-aid cuts?

We talk about about global health conferences in high income countries, our equitable partnership declaration form project, implementation science, and what type of research we'd like to see in 2026.

How can clinicians work with communities to implement appropriate interventions? What does effective context-driven, co-created research that respects local knowledge look like? And how can we use qualitative methods to build interventions from the ground up?

Controlling the HIV epidemic depends on shifting from fragmented, donor-led programmes to nationally led, integrated health systems. To accompany a new joint Series of six papers, Peter Hayward, Editor-in-chief of The Lancet HIV, and Gavin Cleaver, Senior Editor at The Lancet Global Health, are joined in conversation by Solange Baptiste, Kenneth Ngure, and Charles Holmes, who worked extensively on the Series.

Acting Senior Editor at The Lancet Global Health Gavin Cleaver speaks with Dr. Nareen Daruwalla about her latest research on the prevention of domestic violence in communities in India.

Meredith Hawkins and Nihal Thomas explain how Type 5 diabetes, which they estimate affects 25 million people worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, is now becoming more widely recognised and better understood.

Chronic respiratory diseases are on the rise in many countries, including low-income and middle-income countries such as Kenya that also have a sizeable burden of tuberculosis. Dr Stephen Mulupi and corresponding author Dr Tom Wingfield discuss the nuances of their cross-sectional survey in public health-care facilities in Meru County, Kenya.

Listen to Senjuti Saha, Deputy Executive Director of the Child Health Research Foundation, describe the results of her potentially policy-changing study on the health-care burden of RSV in Bangladesh to our Editor-in-Chief, Zoë Mullan.

Nina Putnis of The Lancet Global Health talks to Prof. Hasbullah Thabrany and Dr Augustine Asante about Indonesia’s national health insurance scheme and how its benefits and challenges impact especially the country’s poorest. This has important lessons for other Governments across the world also seeking to understand Universal Health Coverage.

Liam Messin of The Lancet Global Health talks to Professor Rizwana Chaudhri and Professor Ian Roberts about their research investigating the association between maternal anaemia and post-partum haemorrhage.