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Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, is joined by Isata Dumbuya and Allison Adamson to discuss the building and launch of the new Paul E. Farmer Maternal Centre of Excellent in Sierra Leone. Isata discusses her journey from working as a midwife in the UK's NHS for decades to returning to Sierra Leone, the sustainability of skills and training in LMICs, and raising the expectations and standards of maternal health in the country, while Allison talks about her architectural role in building the Centre, the unique challenges posed by the project, and training up locals with construction skills for life.

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Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Zoë Mullan, acting deputy editor Pingyue Jin, senior editors Shangrong Han, and Gavin Cleaver.

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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?

Madhukar Pai joins Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, for an in-depth discussion on TB ahead of World TB Day.

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Zoë Mullan, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Global Health, chats with Pingyue Jin, acting deputy editor, Gavin Cleaver, senior editor, and Shangrong Han, senior editor. 
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.

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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?

Dr. Alejandra Paniagua-Avila joins Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, to discuss her work on advancing equity in implementation research with Indigenous populations in Guatemala, published in this month's issue.

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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.

Together they discuss withstanding external funding shocks, meaningful community involvement, and focusing on health equity, as part of a sustainable approach to HIV prevention in Africa.

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Editorial team: Editor-in-Chief Zoë Mullan, acting deputy editor Pingyue Jin, senior editors Shangrong Han, and Gavin Cleaver.

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