Volume 85, Number 10, October 2007, 733-820

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

Poverty and human development; Maternal health; Why numbers count; In the news; Global Fund targets
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EDITORIALS

Poverty and development
- Augustin Kwasi Fosu
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045955
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The Safe Motherhood Initiative and beyond
- Monir Islam
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045963
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Opening data to the world: why health numbers matter
- Sara Wood
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.046649
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NEWS

News
Defeating dengue: a difficult task ahead
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South African study highlights importance of research involving children
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Saving mother’s lives in rural Indonesia
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WHO News
The Global Fund expands its role
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Recent news from WHO
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RESEARCH

Huge poor–rich inequalities in maternity care: an international comparative study of maternity and child care in developing countries
- Tanja AJ Houweling et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.038588
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Delivery settings and caesarean section rates in China
- Guo Sufang et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.035808
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Magnesium sulfate is not used for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Mexico and Thailand as much as it should be
- Pisake Lumbiganon et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.037911
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Contraceptive injections by community health workers in Uganda: a nonrandomized community trial
- John Stanback et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.040162
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Did the strategy of skilled attendance at birth reach the poor in Indonesia?
- Laurel Hatt et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.033472
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Are skilled birth attendants really skilled? A measurement method, some disturbing results and a potential way forward
- Steven A Harvey et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.038455
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Identifying barriers and facilitators towards implementing guidelines to reduce caesarean section rates in Quebec
- Nils Chaillet et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.039289
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The Chilean infant mortality decline: improvement for whom? Socioeconomic and geographic inequalities in infant mortality, 1990–2005
- Alexander Warren Hertel-Fernandez et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.041848
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Global Fund-supported programmes’ contribution to international targets and the Millennium Development Goals: an initial analysis
- Ryuichi Komatsu et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.038315
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PUBLIC HEALTH REVIEWS

A systematic review of inequalities in the use of maternal health care in developing countries: examining the scale of the problem and the importance of context
- Lale Say & Rosalind Raine
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.035659
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LETTER

Addressing smoking cessation in tuberculosis control
- Nick K Schneider & Thomas E Novotny
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.043794
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