Volume 87, Number 3, March 2009, 161-244

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

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.
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EDITORIALS

The unexplored story of HIV and ageing
- George P Schmid et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.064030
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Systematic reviews in public health: old chestnuts and new challenges
- Mark Petticrew
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.063719
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Evidence for public health decision-making: towards reliable synthesis
- Elizabeth Waters
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.064022
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NEWS

News
Unprotected sex has no age
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Mosquito wars
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When the patient falls out of bed, who pays?
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Recent news from WHO
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Safe in an emergency. An interview with Mohammad R Al Kashi.
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Safe in an emergency. An interview with Teddy Boen.
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Safe in an emergency. An interview with Tony Gibbs.
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RESEARCH

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
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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
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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
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High incidence of childhood pneumonia at high altitudes in Pakistan: a longitudinal cohort study
- Aamir J Khan et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048264
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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
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Use of active management of the third stage of labour in seven developing countries
- Cynthia Stanton et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052597
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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
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The health worker shortage in Africa: are enough physicians and nurses being trained?
- Yohannes Kinfu et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051599
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What essential medicines for children are on the shelf?
- Jane Robertson et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053645
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Limitations of methods for measuring out-of-pocket and catastrophic private health expenditures
- Chunling Lu et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.054379
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