Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 88, Number 7, July 2010, 481-560

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

Africa; Does poverty drive the HIV epidemic?; Cameroon, Nigeria & Uganda; Involving communities in health; Côte d’Ivoire; Care for HIV-infected children; India; Breaking cycle of heath-care debt; Price for piped water?; Indonesia; Reducing neonatal deaths; Liberia; After the war; Pacific islands ; Heavy price for poor diet; United Republic of Tanzania; Digitizing data in the field; Global; Applying human rights for health; Improving the use of evidence

EDITORIALS

Swimming upstream: why sanitation, hygiene and water are so important to mothers and their daughters
- Clarissa Brocklehurst & Jamie Bartram
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.080077

When did medicines become essential?
- Jeremy A Greene
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.079970

NEWS

Pacific islanders pay heavy price for abandoning traditional diet

India tries to break cycle of health-care debt

RESEARCH

Scaling up antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected children in Côte d’Ivoire: determinants of survival and loss to programme
- M-F Anaky et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.068015

Iron and folic acid supplements and reduced early neonatal deaths in Indonesia
- Christiana R Titaley et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.065813

Community-directed interventions for priority health problems in Africa: results of a multicountry study
- The CDI Study Group
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.069203

Understanding the correlations between wealth, poverty and human immunodeficiency virus infection in African countries
- Justin O Parkhurst
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.070185

Availability of essential health services in post-conflict Liberia
- Margaret E Kruk et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.071068

How valuable are environmental health interventions? Evaluation of water and sanitation programmes in India
- Subhrendu K Pattanayak et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.066050

Improving the use of evidence in health impact assessment
- Jennifer Mindell et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.068510

POLICY AND PRACTICE

Using human rights for sexual and reproductive health: improving legal and regulatory frameworks
- Jane Cottingham et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.063412

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

Paperless registration during survey enumerations and large oral cholera mass vaccination in Zanzibar, the United Republic of Tanzania
- Mohammad Ali et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.070334

BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Smoking kills: the revolutionary life of Richard Doll
- Judith Mackay
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.075325

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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