Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 84, Number 1, January 2006, 1-80

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

Demand-driven evidence for policy-making; Congenital rubella syndrome in Myanmar; Child health in complex emergencies; tuberculosis and Russian health systems

EDITORIALS

Demand-driven evidence network in Europe
- Anca Dumitrescu et al.

Revisiting Lessons from the Field
- The Bulletin of the World Health Organization

NEWS

News

Was 2005 the year of natural disasters?; New type of R&D cooperation spawns malaria drugs

WHO News

Interview with Dr Margaret Chan; WHO clinical trials initiative to protect the public; Recent news from WHO

RESEARCH

Surveillance for congenital rubella syndrome in Myanmar
- Kyaw-Zin-Thant et al.

Health care expenditure in Burkina Faso
- Tin Tin Su, Bocar Kouyaté, & Steffen Flessa

Flocculant–disinfectant to reduce diarrhoea in children
- Tom M Chiller et al.

Assessing the dental needs of schoolchildren in Thailand
- Sudaduang Gherunpong, Aubrey Sheiham, & Georgios Tsakos

Tuberculosis control and health-systems efficiency
- Katherine Floyd et al.

POLICY & PRACTICE

Ethics and HIV testing
- Stuart Rennie & Frieda Behets

Child health in complex emergencies
- William J Moss et al.

Storage of hepatitis B vaccine
- David B Hipgrave, James E Maynard, & Beverley-Ann Biggs

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

Enhanced disease surveillance through private sector in Pakistan
- Mohammad Imran Khan et al.

BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

La réforme des régimes de soins de santé: cadre international et communautaire, thématiques actuelles
- Jean Perrot

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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