Volume 87, Number 11, November 2009, 805-884

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

United States of America: Rocky road to recovery; Ethiopia: Testing assumptions; China: Economics and infections; Angola: Poor data, wasted money; Swaziland: Avoiding stigma; Brazil: Nicotine replacement; South Africa: Microfinance and health; Funding patterns; Back to basics; Sexually transmitted infections and HIV; Progress and problems; Climate change and population; Respecting rights; Choices for women with HIV; Involving young people; Environment risky for health
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EDITORIALS

Strength in unity
- Michel Sidibé & Kent Buse
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.071621
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Taking the heat out of the population and climate debate
- Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum & Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072652
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NEWS

Integrating sexual health services in Swaziland
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Hospital safety: Texas dodged a bullet
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Brazil and tobacco use: a hard nut to crack
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One stone to kill two birds. An interview with Xiang-Sheng Chen
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Recent news from WHO
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RESEARCH

Sexual and reproductive health in HIV-related proposals supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.059147
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Assessing the incremental effects of combining economic and health interventions: the IMAGE study in South Africa
- Julia Kim et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.056580
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POLICY AND PRACTICE

Reproductive choices for women with HIV
- Rose Wilcher & Willard Cates
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.059360
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Back to basics: HIV/AIDS belongs with sexual and reproductive health
- Adrienne Germain et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.065425
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Progress on scaling up integrated services for sexual and reproductive health and HIV
- Clare Dickinson et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.059279
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Climate change and family planning: least-developed countries define the agenda
- Leo Bryant et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.062562
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Control of sexually transmitted infections and prevention of HIV transmission: mending a fractured paradigm
- Richard Steen et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.059212
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LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

Integrating family planning into Ethiopian voluntary testing and counselling programmes
- Duff Gillespie et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.065102
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Difficulties in organizing first indoor spray programme against malaria in Angola under the President’s Malaria Initiative
- Martinho Somandjinga et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052514
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PERSPECTIVES

Ensuring human and sexual rights for men who have sex with men living with HIV
- Kevin Moody
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.071175
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Young people, sexual and reproductive health and HIV
- Raoul Fransen-dos Santos
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.059915
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More health for your buck: health sector functions to secure environmental health
- Eva A Rehfuess et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.059865
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BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Integrating gender into HIV/AIDS programmes in the health sector: tool to improve responsiveness to women’s needs
- Adrienne Germain
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.071522
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Health and development: toward a matrix approach
- Richard Smith
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.064931
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