Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 87, Number 6, June 2009, 405-484

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

United Kingdom: Multilingual resource; Gaza Strip: Mental health after a crisis; Nepal: Measles case–fatality ratio; Senegal: Treating scabies in the community; Indonesia: Home-based births; South Africa: Adherence to treatment guidelines; Namibia, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia & Zimbabwe: Violence affects health choices; Complexities of adolescent pregnancy; Gaps in mental health research; Productivity warrants eyeglasses; Reducing childhood pneumonia deaths; Drug-resistant TB action plan

EDITORIALS

Women’s health in prison: urgent need for improvement in gender equity and social justice
- Brenda J van den Bergh et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.066928

Fair tests of health-care policies and treatments: a request for help from readers
- Andrew D Oxman & Iain Chalmers
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.066787

NEWS

News

Rebuilding lives, healing minds

Adolescent pregnancy: a culturally complex issue

Unique, multilingual resource on testing health-care treatments

Swine flu of 1976: lessons from the past

RESEARCH

Professional assistance during birth and maternal mortality in two Indonesian districts
- C Ronsmans et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051581

Ivermectin versus benzyl benzoate applied once or twice to treat human scabies in Dakar, Senegal: a randomized controlled trial
- Fatimata Ly et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052308

Potential lost productivity resulting from the global burden of uncorrected refractive error
- TST Smith et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.055673

Setting priorities for global mental health research
- Mark Tomlinson et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.054353

Exposure to physical and sexual violence and adverse health behaviours in African children: results from the Global School-based Student Health Survey
- David W Brown et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.047423

Measles deaths in Nepal: estimating the national case–fatality ratio
- Anand B Joshi et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050427

A comparison of two methods for measuring anti-hypertensive drug use: concordance of use with South African standard treatment guidelines
- Thamizhanban Pillay et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.054619

Comparative impact assessment of child pneumonia interventions
- Louis Niessen et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050872

PERSPECTIVES

Apocalypse or redemption: responding to extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
- Ross Upshur et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051698

BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Global institutions: the World Health Organization (WHO)
- John Martin
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.060814

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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