United States of America: Halving coronary deaths; Pakistan: Politics and polio; Thailand: Health finance; Bangladesh: Which barrier is best?; United Arab Emirates: Weighty problems; Uganda: Expiry of essential medicines; Sri Lanka: Health and human rights; Brazil: Ivermectin for head lice; India: Vaccinations at the right time; Australia: Preventing pneumonia; Warning lights on maternal death; Why do mothers die?; Who to believe?
Short-sightedness in sight-saving: half a strategy will not eliminate blinding trachoma - Maggie A Montgomery & Jamie Bartram doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.075424
Household-wide ivermectin treatment for head lice in an impoverished community: randomized observer-blinded controlled trial - Daniel Pilger et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051656
Effectiveness of planning and management interventions for improving age-appropriate immunization in rural India - Shankar Prinja et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.059543
Maternal near miss and maternal death in the World Health Organization’s 2005 global survey on maternal and perinatal health - João Paulo Souza et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.057828
Cardiovascular risk factor trends and potential for reducing coronary heart disease mortality in the United States of America - Simon Capewell et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.057885
Self-reported health assessments in the 2002 World Health Survey: how do they correlate with education? - SV Subramanian et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.067058
Effectiveness of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine against radiologically diagnosed pneumonia in indigenous infants in Australia - KF O’Grady et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.068239
What you count is what you target: the implications of maternal death classification for tracking progress towards reducing maternal mortality in developing countries - Suzanne Cross et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.063537
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.
