Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume 90, Number 10, October 2012, 713-792

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

In this month’s Bulletin
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.001012

EDITORIALS

Stockpiling oral cholera vaccine
Stephen Martin, Alejandro Costa & William Perea
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.112433

Time for innovative dialogue on health systems research
Bruno Meessen, Godelieve van Heteren, Robert Soeters, Gyuri Fritsche & Wim van Damme
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.112326

NEWS

Public health round-up

RESEARCH

Rotavirus mortality in India: estimates based on a nationally representative survey of diarrhoeal deaths
Shaun K Morris, Shally Awasthi, Ajay Khera, Diego G Bassani, Gagandeep Kang, Umesh D Parashar, Rajesh Kumar, Anita Shet, Roger I Glass, Prabhat Jha & for the Million Death Study Collaborators
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.101873

Global cost of correcting vision impairment from uncorrected refractive error
TR Fricke, BA Holden, DA Wilson, G Schlenther, KS Naidoo, S Resnikoff & KD Frick
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.104034

The impact of new tuberculosis diagnostics on transmission: why context matters
Hsien-Ho Lin, David Dowdy, Christopher Dye, Megan Murray & Ted Cohen
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.101436

Population-level impact of hormonal contraception on incidence of HIV infection and pregnancy in women in Durban, South Africa
Gita Ramjee & Handan Wand
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.105700

Estimated incidence of influenza-virus-associated severe pneumonia in children in El Salvador, 2008–2010
Wilfrido Clara, Julio Armero, David Rodriguez, Celina de Lozano, Luis Bonilla, Percy Minaya, Rafael Chacón, Jorge Jara, Natalia Blanco, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Joseph Bresee, Xiyan Xu, Alexander Klimov, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner & Nivaldo Linares-Perez
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.098202

Mortality measures from sample-based surveillance: evidence of the epidemiological transition in Viet Nam
Nguyen Phuong Hoa, Chalapati Rao, Damian G Hoy, Nguyen Duc Hinh, Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc & Duc Anh Ngo
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.100750

Factors associated with the safety of voluntary medical male circumcision in Nyanza province, Kenya
Amy Herman-Roloff, Robert C Bailey & Kawango Agot
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.106112

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

Oseltamivir storage, distribution and dispensing following the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak in Mexico
Luis Meave Gutiérrez-Mendoza, Brian Schwartz, José de Jesús Méndez de Lira & Veronika J Wirtz
doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.101733

A new entity for the negotiation of public procurement prices for patented medicines in Mexico
Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Veronika J Wirtz, Michael R Reich, Paulina Terrazas & Maki Ortiz
doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.106633

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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