“…Only six of the fourteen LMICs (Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand) conducted reviews to generate evidence in developing their guidelines, and only five followed up this step by the deliberative process (Cuba, Egypt, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand) (22;25;29;34;35;37). Other countries followed incomplete steps, that is, either a workshop, or international support, or a review (Bhutan, Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, and Mexico) (18–21;31;33;34). Furthermore, while the AGREE enterprise provides a structured, systematic, and standardized methodological framework for developing and reporting HSG (11), we could not identify any country, except Cuba, following it.…”