Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Nepal, and Rwanda have dramatically reduced adolescent pregnancy. Gavin is joined by Annie Haakenstad and Nyovani Madise to explore what some of the drivers behind the decline might be, what this means for the future of adolescent girls in these countries, and how other countries can emulate their success.

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

Podcast editing: Matteo Simonetti

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An update of the 2015 WHO estimates of foodborne disease shows that in 2021 alone, transmission of 42 different hazards in food caused 866 million illnesses and 1.52 million deaths. So what can be done about this huge burden of illness? How is data like this collated? And what don't we know?

Yuki Minato and Rob Lake, two authors of the papers, join Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, to discuss.

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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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Since the Taliban took control in Afghanistan again in 2021, women have been prevented from studying and therefore from training to provide services to mothers, newborns, and children. Dr. Shatha Elnakib and colleagues used the LiST (Lives Saved Tool) modelling system, to illustrate what effects this might have on the workforce, the acceptability of predominantly-male led MNCH services to service users, and the subsequent effects on maternal and child mortality from a lack of care-seeking. She joins Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, to discuss her study, the current state of MNCH provision in Afghanistan, and also what modelling studies like this one can't capture in the human stories.

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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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