Volume 87, Number 2, February 2009, 81-160

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

Germany: measles outbreak investigation; Sudan: lessons learned from a revolving drug fund; Pakistan: why do babies die?; Belize: going digital; India: tracking India’s children; United Republic of Tanzania: failure to follow guidelines; Thailand: public contribution to health agenda; Zimbabwe: solutions for cholera not always simple; Mozambique & the United Republic of Tanzania: preventing malaria in infants; Marshall Islands: confirming measles cases; Conducting trachoma surveys; Plagues of poverty.
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EDITORIALS

The urban animal: population density and social pathology in rodents and humans
- Edmund Ramsden
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.062836
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Evaluating child survival programmes
- Cesar G Victora et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.062828
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Reducing health inequities in a generation: a dream or reality?
- Shankar Prinja & Rajesh Kumar
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.062695
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NEWS

News
An old enemy returns
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Belize health information goes digital
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Thai public invited to help shape health policies
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Recent news from WHO
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Miracle cure for an old scourge. An interview with Dr Dhiman Barua.
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Miracle cure for an old scourge. An interview with Dr Dilip Mahalanabis.
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RESEARCH

Laboratory confirmation of measles in elimination settings: experience from the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 2003
- Terri B Hyde et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045484
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Why first-level health workers fail to follow guidelines for managing severe disease in children in the Coast Region, the United Republic of Tanzania
- Nicholas D Walter et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050740
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Further efforts needed to achieve measles elimination in Germany: results of an outbreak investigation
- Ole Wichmann et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050187
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Pilot testing of WHO Child Growth Standards in Chandigarh: implications for India’s child health programmes
- Shankar Prinja et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051789
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Cost-effectiveness of malaria intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) in Mozambique and the United Republic of Tanzania
- Guy Hutton et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051961
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Neonatal mortality, risk factors and causes: a prospective population-based cohort study in urban Pakistan
- Imtiaz Jehan et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050963
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LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

How to establish a successful revolving drug fund: the experience of Khartoum state in the Sudan
- Gamal Khalafalla Mohamed Ali
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048561
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PUBLIC HEALTH REVIEWS

Trachoma survey methods: a literature review
- Jeremiah Ngondi et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.046326
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Epidermal parasitic skin diseases: a neglected category of poverty-associated plagues
- Hermann Feldmeier & Jorg Heukelbach
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.047308
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BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Food, economics and health
- Arantxa Colchero
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.058438
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