Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 84, Number 12, December 2006, 921-1000

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

Margaret Chan elected as WHO’s new director-general; Southern Africa moves fast to fight XDR–TB; Improving Tanzanian mortality data; Nurses and family planning saved lives in Ghana; New dosing method for antimalarials; Patterns of traffic and spread of SARS in China

EDITORIALS

Accessing and understanding the evidence
- Trevor Duke et al.

HIV/AIDS and the rest of the global health agenda
- Jeremy Shiffman

NEWS

News

Southern Africa is moving swiftly to combat the threat of XDR–TB; For Ireland’s smoke-less pubs it’s business as usual

WHO News

Interview with Susanne Weber-Mosdorf; Recent news from WHO

RESEARCH

Mental illness after Hurricane Katrina
- Ronald C Kessler et al.

Cause-specific mortality in the United Republic of Tanzania
- David Whiting et al.

Reproductive and child health in Ghana
- James F. Phillips, Ayaga A Bawah, & Fred N Binka

Anthropometric data to design age-based drug regimens
- Walter Taylor et al.

Spatial dynamics of a SARS epidemic in an urban area
- Jinfeng Wang et al.

Antenatal services in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Frieda M Behets et al.

Socioeconomic status and health risk in Australia
- Jake M. Najman, Ghasem Toloo, & Victor Siskind

POLICY & PRACTICE

Links between agriculture and health
- Corinna Hawkes & Marie Ruel

PUBLIC HEALTH REVIEW

Responsive parenting: interventions and outcomes
Neir Eshel et al.

PERSPECTIVES

Promoting Self-Testing For HIV in Developing Countries: Potential Benefits And Pitfalls
- Sumesh Kachroo


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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