United States of America: Who pays?; Kenya: TB detection and HIV; Pakistan: Higher rates of pneumonia at high altitudes; The Gambia: Measures of access to health care; India: Screening for oral cancer; Sri Lanka: The cost of self-poisoning; Brazil: HIV in older individuals; Africa: Essential medicines for children; Africa: Shortage of health workers; Fiji: Managing skin conditions in children; Out-of-pocket payments; Focus on postpartum haemorrhage; Mosquito wars.
Validation of an Integrated Management of Childhood Illness algorithm for managing common skin conditions in Fiji - Andrew C Steer et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052712
Cost to government health-care services of treating acute self-poisonings in a rural district in Sri Lanka - Kanchana Wickramasinghe et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051920
New methods for estimating the tuberculosis case detection rate in high-HIV prevalence countries: the example of Kenya - John Mansoer et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051474
Cost-effectiveness of oral cancer screening: results from a cluster randomized controlled trial in India - Sujha Subramanian et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053231
Access to health care and mortality of children under 5 years of age in the Gambia: a case–control study - Merrin E Rutherford et al. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052175
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.
