Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 88, Number 9, September 2010, 641-716

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

Asia; Home visits help; Sub-Saharan Africa; Rethinking HIV testing; Brazil; Finding the funds; Cambodia; Dengue trends; China; Regional differences in enteric fever; India; Life and death in a Kolkata slum; Indonesia; After the tsunami; Kenya; Gender-specific HIV treatment; South Africa; Lost opportunities; Global; Thinking small; Vitamin A and infant mortality

EDITORIALS

Reducing child mortality in Indonesia
- Laksono Trisnantoro et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.082073

Public health science and the global strategy on alcohol
- Thomas F Babor
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.081729

NEWS

Governments confront drunken violence

Brazil's march towards universal coverage

Caring for the frail, demented and dying. An interview with Muriel Gillick

Recent news from WHO

RESEARCH

National dengue surveillance in Cambodia 1980–2008: epidemiological and virological trends and the impact of vector control
- Rekol Huy et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.073908

Home visits by community health workers to prevent neonatal deaths in developing countries: a systematic review
- Siddhartha Gogia & Harshpal Singh Sachdev
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.069369

Use of verbal autopsy to determine mortality patterns in an urban slum in Kolkata, India
- Suman Kanungo et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.073742

Lost opportunities to complete CD4+ lymphocyte testing among patients who tested positive for HIV in South Africa
- Bruce A Larson et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.068981

Influence of gender on loss to follow-up in a large HIV treatment programme in western Kenya
- Vincent Ochieng-Ooko et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.064329

Trends and disease burden of enteric fever in Guangxi province, China, 1994–2004
- Bai-Qing Dong et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.069310

Vitamin A supplementation and neonatal mortality in the developing world: a meta-regression of cluster-randomized trials
- Michael Anthony Rotondi & Nooshin Khobzi
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.068080

POLICY & PRACTICE

Rethinking HIV exceptionalism: the ethics of opt-out HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa
- Michael D April
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.073049

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

Improving health services to displaced persons in Aceh, Indonesia: a balanced scorecard
- Grace J Chan et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.064618

PERSPECTIVES

Protecting health: thinking small
- Sidhartha R Sinha & Rajaie Batniji
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.071530

BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Casebook on ethical issues in international health research
- Ruth Macklin
doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.078469

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