Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 85, Number 7, July 2007, 501-568

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

Call for papers: upcoming theme issues; In the news; Hib vaccine in Kenya; China continues to battle schistosomiasis; How Brazil reduced smoking; Respiratory infections in Guatemala; A safe, low-cost method to fight lymphatic filariasis; Lessons from the field; How effective are global health partnerships?

EDITORIALS

Childhood pneumonia – preventing the world’s biggest killer of children
- Brian M Greenwood et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044032

How should ethics be incorporated into public health policy and practice?
- Carl H Coleman et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044040

NEWS

News

Changing men’s behaviour can improve women’s health

The quest to be free of malaria

WHO News

Recent news from WHO

Applying science to the diseases of poverty

RESEARCH

Economic evaluation of delivering Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine in routine immunization services in Kenya
- Angela Oloo Akumu et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.034686

Prevalence, intensity and associated morbidity of Schistosoma japonicum infection in the Dongting Lake region, China
- Julie Balen et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.034033

Population-based evidence of a strong decline in the prevalence of smokers in Brazil (1989–2003)
- Carlos Augusto Monteiro et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.039073

Pneumonia case-finding in the RESPIRE Guatemala indoor air pollution trial: standardizing methods for resource-poor settings
- Nigel Bruce et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.035832

POLICY AND PRACTICE

Unfulfilled potential: using diethylcarbamazine-fortified salt to eliminate lymphatic filariasis
- Patrick Lammie et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.034108

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

True outcomes for patients on antiretroviral therapy who are “lost to follow-up” in Malawi
- Joseph Kwong-Leung Yu et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.037739

Antiretroviral treatment roll-out in a resource-constrained setting: capitalizing on nursing resources in Botswana
- K Miles et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.033076

Reducing vector-borne disease by empowering farmers in integrated vector management
- Henk van den Berg et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.035600

PERSPECTIVES

Effectiveness of global health partnerships: will the past repeat itself?
- Nicolaus Lorenz
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.033597

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