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Item Building back from the ground up: The vital role of communities(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020) Kroon, Max; Doherty, Tanya M.; Reynolds, LouisGlobally the COVID-19 pandemic has destabilised health systems and communities. Governments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) followed the approaches adopted by the Global North and advocated by international bodies such as the WHO, and instituted varying degrees of nationwide stay at home orders (lockdowns) from strict restrictions (such as in South Africa, India and Zimbabwe) to weakly enforced lockdown as in Brazil.1 Many have questioned the appropriateness of these measures in LMIC contexts2 where key preventive behaviours such as social distancing and frequent hand washing are impossible to implement in densely populated informal housing settlements.Item Child mortality in South Africa: Is the Sustainable Development Goal (3.2) target achievable with current efforts?(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2018) Doherty, Tanya; Kroon, Max; Rhoda, Natasha; Sanders, DavidThe two articles by Bamford et al.[1,2] in the recent SAMJ Maternal and Child Health Supplement present trends in inpatient case fatality rates for diarrhoeal disease, pneumonia and severe acute malnutrition (SAM), and a review of under-5 mortality and cause of death using several sources of nationally representative data. While these reviews provide evidence of some improvement, seemingly limited to the impact of prevention of mother-to-child transmission roll-out, we have some comments related to the interpretation of the data.