Bulletin of the World Health Organization

May issue

Children from Myanmar at a school for illegal immigrants in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, organized as part of an HIV prevention programme. Illegal immigrants are often excluded from health-care services and are at higher risk of getting infected with HIV.

1 May 2013 -- This issue includes articles on the following topics:
• More breastfeeding to improve children’s health in China
• 60 years of lung cancer and smoking data in Japan analyzed
• Exit and entry screening of airline passengers during a pandemic
• A global coding system to track medical products of human origin
• A landmark study on public health, intellectual property and trade
• Gabon gets everyone under one social health insurance roof
• A new health financing model in the Russian Federation

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