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

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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