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Available online 5 October 2026:

RESEARCH 
ID: BLT.25.295244  
The international legal framework for transporting infectious substances
-  Markus Huber, Ekin Sahin, Lance D Presser, Kazunobu Kojima & Joanna Salvi Le Garrec

POLICY & PRACTICE   
ID: BLT.25.295599
Health and economic impacts of China’s rural Toilet Revolution
-  Zhenyu Zhang, Qijiong Zhu, Runming Du, Jiarui Wang, Zhisheng Liang, Jingtao Ding, Xiangqun Zheng, Yujun Shen & Zhijie Zheng

ID: BLT.26.295763
When normal ends at the median: a design flaw in child growth charts, India
-  Seetharaman Narayanan, Rajeshwari A Biradar & Yogeswaran Nehru Sivasubramanian

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD 
ID: BLT.25.294262 
Peer-country support for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria programmes, Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger and Togo
-  Casimir Manzengo, Mariama Baissa, Laurent Moyenga, Yeba L Kaaga, Raoul Saizonou, Dismas Baza, Ndoungou S Ba, Rose Diasso-Tingueri, Fatima Aboubakar, Winiga L Koudema, Moussa Bachabi, Dissou Affolabi, Codjo Dandonougbo, Sidzabda CB Kompaore, Dieudonné N Soma, Adjima Combary, Abou Yahaya, Oum R Ganda, Alphazazi Soumana, Anoumou C Dagnra, Abdou G Gbadamassi, Abraham Atekpe, Benita Manzengo, Issa Guire & Omarou Seybou Moussa

PERSPECTIVES   
ID: BLT.25.295382
WHO recommendations for pregnancy and postpartum care should include hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
-  Andrea Solnes Miltenburg, Albert Kihunrwa, Richard Kiritta, Joyce Browne, Benedikte V Lindskog, Johanne Sundby, Joseph R Mwanga & Anne Cathrine Staff

ID: BLT.25.294954 
Establishment of a One Health workforce for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response
-  Ong-orn Prasarnphanich, Carla Berger, Philip AbdelMalik, Uzma Bashir, Raquel Medialdea Carrera, Renee Christensen, Sebastien Cognat, Virginie Dolmazon, Stacie Dunkle, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Melinda Frost, Paula Gomez, Stefany Ildefonso, Gunel Ismayilova, Sylvio Menna, Marion Muehlen, Pryanka Relan, Flavio Salio, Chadia Wannous, Mathieu Boniol & Stéphane de la Rocque

ID: BLT.26.295870 
Physician assignment of causes of death from verbal autopsies
-  Chalapati Rao, Henry D Kalter, Daniel Chandramohan, Daniel Cobos & Jordana Leitao