Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 86, Number 5, May 2008, 321-416

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Primary health care revolution; Number one killer; Twenty years’ experience; Seeking care too late; Making oxygen available; A lethal combination; Who is at risk and why?; Is the vaccine safe?; Case management at tipping point; Nutrition and pneumonia; Vaccines improve child survival; Antibiotics, oxygen and training; Indoor air pollution; Advances increase inequity

EDITORIALS

A global action plan for the prevention and control of pneumonia
- Brian Greenwood
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053348

Can the burden of pneumonia among HIV-infected children be reduced?
- Prakash Mohan Jeena
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053223

NEWS

News

HIV drives children’s pneumonia in sub-Saharan Africa

Controversial funding mechanism to fight pneumonia

Cuba’s primary health care revolution: 30 years on

An interview with Tabish Hazir: Pneumonia: No. 1 killer of Pakistan’s children.

RESEARCH

Delayed care seeking for fatal pneumonia in children aged under five years in Uganda: a case-series study
- Karin Källander et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049353

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

From research to national expansion: 20 years’ experience of community-based management of childhood pneumonia in Nepal
- P Dawson et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.047688

Implementation of an oxygen concentrator system in district hospital paediatric wards throughout Malawi
- Penny Enarson et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048017

PUBLIC HEALTH REVIEWS

Challenges to improving case management of childhood pneumonia at health facilities in resource-limited settings
- Stephen M Graham et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048512

Acute lower respiratory infections in childhood: opportunities for reducing the global burden through nutritional interventions
- Daniel E Roth et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049114

Vaccines to prevent pneumonia and improve child survival
- Shabir A Madhi et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044503

Safety profile of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines: systematic review of pre- and post-licensure data
- Frank DeStefano et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048025

Community case management of pneumonia: at a tipping point?
- David R Marsh et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048462

Indoor air pollution from unprocessed solid fuel use and pneumonia risk in children aged under five years: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Mukesh Dherani et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044529

Equity and child-survival strategies
- EK Mulholland et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044545

Epidemiology and etiology of childhood pneumonia
- Igor Rudan et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048769

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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