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E-publication ahead of print enables the Bulletin to post online edited versions of papers that will be published later in print.

Available online 6 January 2009:

RESEARCH

:: doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050740 [pdf 205kb]
Why guidelines for managing severe disease in children are not followed by first-level health workers in the Coast Region, United Republic of Tanzania.
- Nicholas D Walter, Thomas Lyimo, Jacek Skarbinski, Emmy Metta, Elizeus Kahigwa, Brendan Flannery, Scott F Dowell, Salim Abdulla, S Patrick Kachur

:: doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.050963 [pdf 117kb]
Neonatal mortality, risk factors and causes: a prospective population-based cohort study in urban Pakistan
- Imtiaz Jehan, Hillary Harris, Sohail Salat, Amna Zeb, Naushaba Mobeen, Omrana Pasha, Elizabeth M McClure, Janet Moore, Linda L Wright & Robert L Goldenberg

:: doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045484 [pdf 103kb]
Laboratory confirmation of measles in elimination settings: experience from the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 2003
- Terri B Hyde, Robin Nandy, Carole Hickman, Justina R Langidrik, Peter M Strebel, Mark J Papania, Jane F Seward & William J Bellini

:: doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051961 [pdf 98kb]
Cost-effectiveness of malaria intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) in the United Republic of Tanzania and Mozambique
- Guy Hutton, David Schellenberg, Fabrizio Tediosi, Eusebio Macete, Elizeus Kahigwa, Betuel Sigauque, Xavier Mas, Marta Trapero, Marcel Tanner, Antoni Trilla, Pedro Alonso & Clara Menendez

:: doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050187 [pdf 157kb]
Further efforts needed to achieve measles elimination in Germany: results of an outbreak investigation
- Ole Wichmann, Anette Siedler, Daniel Sagebiel, Wiebke Hellenbrand, Sabine Santibanez, Annette Mankertz, Georg Vogt, Ulrich van Treeck & Gérard Krause

:: doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051789 [pdf 156kb]
Pilot testing of WHO Child Growth Standards in Chandigarh: implications for India’s child health programmes
- Shankar Prinja, Jarnail Singh Thakur & Satpal Singh Bhatia

:: doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053645 [pdf 125kb]
What essential medicines for children are on the shelf?
- Jane Robertson, Gilles Forte, Jean-Marie Trapsida & Suzanne Hill

Policy & Practice

:: 10.2471/BLT.07.046375 [pdf 350kb]
Elimination of endemic measles transmission in Australia
- Anita Heywood, Heather Gidding, Michaela Riddell, Peter McIntyre, Raina MacIntyre, and Heath Kelly

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

:: doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048561 [pdf 87kb]
How to establish a successful revolving drug fund: the experience of Khartoum state in the Sudan
- Gamal Khalafalla Mohamed Ali

PUBLIC HEALTH REVIEWS

:: doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.047308 [pdf 304kb]
Epidermal parasitic skin diseases: a neglected category of poverty-associated plagues
- Hermann Feldmeier & Jorg Heukelbach

:: doi: 10.2471/BlT.07.046326 [pdf 165kb]
Trachoma survey methods: a literature review
- Jeremiah Ngondi, Mark Reacher, Fiona Matthews, Carol Brayne & Paul Emerson