Desalegn Tadese Mengistu

TL;DR: The findings highlight the large global inequities in congenital heart disease and can serve as a starting point for policy changes to improve screening, treatment, and data collection.

TL;DR: Meningitis burden remains high and progress lags substantially behind that of other vaccine-preventable diseases, and particular attention should be given to developing vaccines with broader coverage against the causes of meningitis.

TL;DR: If current trends in tuberculosis incidence continue, few countries are likely to meet the SDG target to end the tuberculosis epidemic by 2030, and several regions had higher rates of age-standardised incidence and mortality than expected on the basis of their SDI levels in 2016.

TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising evidence on risks and risk-outcome associations as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The findings show that there have been substantial but uneven declines in LRI mortality among countries between 1990 and 2017 and changes in exposure to modifiable risk factors are related to the rates of decline in L RI mortality.