Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 88, Number 11, November 2010, 797–876

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

Africa: preventing malaria in infants; Africa: HIV infection among older adults; Bangladesh: facing food insecurity; China: responding to viral hepatitis; Kenya: hiring more nurses; Mongolia: surviving sepsis; New Zealand: tobacco warnings; South Africa: bridging the gap; Global: cause-of-death data; Global: water science and health; Global: measuring disability; Global: volunteer spirit or exploitation?; Global: ethics of human tissue transplantation

EDITORIALS

Women’s and children’s health: from pledges to action
- Flavia Bustreo & Julio Frenk
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.083485

The impact of cell phones on public health surveillance
- Shaohua Sean Hu et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.082669

Access to essential medicines in national constitutions
- SK Perehudoff et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.078733

NEWS

At last a global response to viral hepatitis

Bridging the gap in South Africa

Antimicrobial resistance: revisiting the “tragedy of the commons”

RESEARCH

Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants: a decision-support tool for sub-Saharan Africa
- Ilona Carneiro et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072397

Developing the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0
- T Bedirhan Üstün et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.067231

The impact of an emergency hiring plan on the shortage and distribution of nurses in Kenya: the importance of information systems
- JM Gross et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072678

Availability and quality of cause-of-death data for estimating the global burden of injuries
- Kavi Bhalla et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.068809

Nationwide survey on resource availability for implementing current sepsis guidelines in Mongolia
- Otgon Bataar et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.077073

HIV infection in older adults in sub-Saharan Africa: extrapolating prevalence from existing data
- Joel Negin & Robert G Cumming
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.076349

Impact of a cash-for-work programme on food consumption and nutrition among women and children facing food insecurity in rural Bangladesh
- CGN Mascie-Taylor et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.080994

POLICY & PRACTICE

Lessons from New Zealand’s introduction of pictorial health warnings on tobacco packaging
- Janet Hoek et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.076695

PERSPECTIVES

Examining health-care volunteerism in a food- and financially-insecure world
- Kenneth Maes
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.074120

Human cells and tissues: the need for a global ethical framework
- Jean-Paul Pirnay et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.074542

Engaging with the water sector for public health benefits: waterborne pathogens and diseases in developed countries
- Jonathan W Bridge et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.072512

CORRIGENDUM

Corrigendum
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.101110

BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

The third ten years of the World Health Organization: 1968–1977
- S William A Gunn
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.077313

Choked pipes: reforming Pakistan’s mixed health system
- Shehla Zaidi
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.079285

Letters

Neonatal vitamin A supplementation and infant mortality
- Harshpal Singh Sachdev, Betty R Kirkwood & Christine Stabell Benn
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.083030

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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