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
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EDITORIALS

The promise of primary health care
- Marcos Cueto
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Health care has to move into the hi-tech age
- Richard Alvarez
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Priority medicines and the world
- M.N. Graham Dukes
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NEWS

News
In focus: Governments in a dilemma over bird flu
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WHO News
How bad is the environment for our health?; Recent news from WHO
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RESEARCH

Evaluating the impact of HIV on measles control
- Rita F. Helfand et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 217kb] | pdf with Arabic summary [pdf 577kb]

Financing policies and underutilization of children’s health-care services
- Subhash Pokhrel et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 320kb] | pdf with Arabic summary [pdf 579kb]

Pre-existing morbidity in injured and non-injured populations
- Cate M. Cameron et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 220kb] | pdf with Arabic summary [pdf 619kb]

Diagnosis of radiological pneumonia
- Thomas Cherian et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 254kb] | pdf with Arabic summary [pdf 655kb]

Burden of rabies in Africa and Asia
- Darryn L. Knobel et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 273kb] | pdf with Arabic summary [pdf 667kb]

Does IMCI cost more than routine care?
- Taghreed Adam et al.
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 226kb] | pdf with Arabic summary [pdf 763kb]

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
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 227kb] | pdf with Arabic summary [pdf 582kb]

Monitoring immunization performance
- Enrique Delamonica, Alberto Minujin, & Jama Gulaid
Abstract [HTML] | Full Text [pdf 297kb] | pdf with Arabic summary [pdf 634kb]

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
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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
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LETTERS

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