United States of America: Who pays?; Kenya: TB detection and HIV; Pakistan: Higher rates of pneumonia at high altitudes; The Gambia: Measures of access to health care; India: Screening for oral cancer; Sri Lanka: The cost of self-poisoning; Brazil: HIV in older individuals; Africa: Essential medicines for children; Africa: Shortage of health workers; Fiji: Managing skin conditions in children; Out-of-pocket payments; Focus on postpartum haemorrhage; Mosquito wars.
Validation of an Integrated Management of Childhood Illness algorithm for managing common skin conditions in Fiji - Andrew C Steer et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052712
Cost to government health-care services of treating acute self-poisonings in a rural district in Sri Lanka - Kanchana Wickramasinghe et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051920
New methods for estimating the tuberculosis case detection rate in high-HIV prevalence countries: the example of Kenya - John Mansoer et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051474
Cost-effectiveness of oral cancer screening: results from a cluster randomized controlled trial in India - Sujha Subramanian et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053231
Access to health care and mortality of children under 5 years of age in the Gambia: a case–control study - Merrin E Rutherford et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052175
