Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 87, Number 7, July 2009, 485-564

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

Spain: Motorcycle licences and injury risk; Armenia: Food or medicine?; Asia: It’s the health system, not the individual; Brazil: Chagas centenary; Kyrgyzstan: One system for all; Kenya: Post-rape care; Cambodia: Removing the barriers; Mexico: Democratization of health; Mexico: Improving care for diabetes; South Africa: BCG jabs for infants with HIV?; Is screening evidence-based?; Estimating immunization coverage; Cutting antiretroviral prices

EDITORIALS

Health workforce retention in remote and rural areas: call for papers
- Carmen Dolea et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.068494

Improving international research contracting
- David A Sack et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.058099

Preventing HIV transmission with antiretrovirals
- Kevin M De Cock et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.09.067330

NEWS

News

Armenians struggle for health care and medicines

Chagas: one hundred years later

Ethiopia extends health to its people. An interview with Dr Tedros A Ghebreyesus.

RESEARCH

Road injuries and relaxed licensing requirements for driving light motorcycles in Spain: a time-series analysis
- Katherine Pérez et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051847

Disseminated bacille Calmette–Guérin disease in HIV-infected South African infants
- AC Hesseling et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.055657

Diabetes treatment and control: the effect of public health insurance for the poor in Mexico
- Sandra G Sosa-Rubí et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053256

Global strategies to reduce the price of antiretroviral medicines: evidence from transactional databases
- Brenda Waning et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.058925

POLICY AND PRACTICE

Evidence base for pre-employment medical screening
- Joseph Pachman
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052605

WHO and UNICEF estimates of national infant immunization coverage: methods and processes
- Anthony Burton et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053819

The democratization of health in Mexico: financial innovations for universal coverage
- Julio Frenk et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053199

Bismarck meets Beveridge on the Silk Road: coordinating funding sources to create a universal health financing system in Kyrgyzstan
- Joseph Kutzin et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049544

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

Delivering post-rape care services: Kenya’s experience in developing integrated services
- N Kilonzo et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052340

Barriers to access and the purchasing function of health equity funds: lessons from Cambodia
- Maryam Bigdeli & Peter Leslie Annear
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053058

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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