Number 12, December 2006 pages 921-1000 Margaret Chan elected as WHO’s new director-general; Southern Africa moves fast to fight XDR–TB; Improving Tanzanian mortality data; Nurses and family planning saved lives in Ghana; New dosing method for antimalarials; Patterns of traffic and spread of SARS in China
Number 11, November 2006 pages 841-920 Special theme issue: Contracting and Health Services; Public-private partnerships for hospitals; Community health insurance in Burkina Faso; Regulating contracting in Chad, Madagascar and Senegal; Interview: contracting and health; Countries test new ways to finance health care; Public health classic: Rousseau's Social Contract
Number 10, October 2006 pages 765-940 Sleeping sickness in the Republic of theCongo; Is IMCI reaching the poorest communities?; Relief coordination and emergency medicine; WHO and global outbreak response; Home-based malaria care in Uganda; Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccination in South Africa; Interview: latest trends in HIV/AIDS
Number 9, September 2006 pages 685-764 Drugs for rare diseases as essential medicines; WHO taskforce on counterfeit medicines; Neonatal deaths in developing countries; Echinococcosis: risk factors in China; Heart failure in Australia; Single-dose treatment for vaginal discharge; The burden of intimate partner violence
Number 8, August 2006 pages 589-684 Special theme issue: Knowledge Translation in Global Health; BRAC and social entrepreneurs; The knowledge-value chain in public health; Policy into practice in South-East Asia; Evidence-based frameworks; Improving heath service delivery; Translating knowledge from Bangladesh to Afghanistan
Number 7, July 2006 pages 505-588 Personal tribute to Dr Lee Jong-wook; 25 years on: HIV/AIDS and WHO; Breastfeeding and HIV; Circumcision in Africa to control HIV; Clinical trials: will companies comply?; Indoor air pollution; MDGs: tracking health disparities
Number 6, June 2006 pages 425-504 Private and informal health-care providers; Mortality trends in sub-Saharan Africa; Tracking health disparities to achieve the MDGs; Cardiovascular diseases in India; Better access to trial information for patients; New global public health leaders; UV exposure: getting the message right?; Public Health Classic: cancer and tobacco
Number 5, May 2006 pages 337-424 Special theme issue: Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health;WHO’s Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health; Open access and copyright as alternatives to patents; Access to medicines as a human right; Should genes be patented? ; Access to life-saving medicines stumbles on trade rules; Rich and poor countries divided on patent treaty; Meeting the need for treatment: the initiatives; Bulletin interview: do patents work for public health?
Number 4, April 2006 pages 257-336 Emergency child care; Self-violence; and self-poisoning in Sri Lanka; AIDS in China, brand RED; TB in Russian prisons; Estimating mortality; Treating HIV-positive children with pneumonia; Scaling up treatment for HIV/AIDS in Malawi; World health report: action into words?
Number 3, March 2006 pages 161-256 Special theme issue: Estimating Mortality;Counting the dead and determining how they died; HIV/AIDS deaths in Zimbabwe; Lessons from the Field: maternal mortality in Senegal; Public Health Classic: the origins of verbal autopsy; Mexico's quets for complete mortality data; Counting deaths in China; Bulletin interview: mortality data is essential for health
Number 2, February 2006 pages 81-160 Need for continuous disease control efforts; Breastfeeding dilemma for HIV-positive mothers; Lao district health programmes; Public Health Classic: an holistic approach to health; Corruption report focuses on public health; Promise of HPV vaccine; WHO helps Turkey fight bird flu; Bulletin interview: history’s humbling lessons
Number 1, January 2006 pages 1-80 Demand-driven evidence for policy-making; Congenital rubella syndrome in Myanmar; Child health in complex emergencies; Tuberculosis and Russian health systems; Why the poor are worst hit by disasters; Developing countries prodice new malaria drugs; WHO clinical trials initiative; Bulletin interview: communicating pandemic flu risks
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.
