Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 83, Number 5, May 2005, 321-400

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

Impact of HIV on measles; Setting priorities for drugs; How to define pneumonia; Integrated child health care mustn’t cost more

EDITORIALS

The promise of primary health care
- Marcos Cueto

Health care has to move into the hi-tech age
- Richard Alvarez

Priority medicines and the world
- M.N. Graham Dukes

NEWS

News

In focus: Governments in a dilemma over bird flu

WHO News

How bad is the environment for our health?; Recent news from WHO

RESEARCH

Evaluating the impact of HIV on measles control
- Rita F. Helfand et al.

Financing policies and underutilization of children’s health-care services
- Subhash Pokhrel et al.

Pre-existing morbidity in injured and non-injured populations
- Cate M. Cameron et al.

Diagnosis of radiological pneumonia
- Thomas Cherian et al.

Burden of rabies in Africa and Asia
- Darryn L. Knobel et al.

Does IMCI cost more than routine care?
- Taghreed Adam et al.

POLICY & PRACTICE

The future of the HIV pandemic
- Nicholas C. Grassly & Geoffrey P. Garnett
Commentary: New approaches to effectively programming HIV/AIDS prevention resources - John Stover

Monitoring immunization performance
- Enrique Delamonica, Alberto Minujin, & Jama Gulaid

PERSPECTIVES

Time for an additional paradigm? The community-based catalyst approach to public health
- Anders R. Seim
Availability of miltefosine for the treatment of kala-azar in India
- Shyam Sundar & Henry W. Murray

BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Climate change and human health: risks and responses
- Paul R. Epstein
Toman’s tuberculosis: case detection, treatment, and monitoring
- Antonio Pio
Tobacco: science, policy and public health
Tobacco smoke and involuntary smoking (IARC Monographs, Volume 83)
- Derek Yach

LETTERS

One-journal-for-MEDLINE initiative in Nepal
- Masamine Jimba, Krishna C. Poudel, & Susumu Wakai

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SAGE: requests for nominations

The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) is the principal advisory group to WHO for vaccines and immunization. WHO is soliciting nominations for experts from the African, Eastern Mediterranean, European and Western Pacific regions.

Nominations should be submitted no later than 28 June 2013, following the instructions provided at: http://www.who.int/immunization/sage_nominations