Volume 86, Number 1, January 2008, 1-80

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

WHO anniversary commemorative volume; Birthday series; Tuberculosis advances; Making primary health care work; Misguided gifts; Brain drain; Health care with your loan?; Managing scarcity; Vaccination costs; HIV transmission; An eye on refractive errors
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EDITORIALS

Flowing away: water and health opportunities
- Jamie Bartram
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049619
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Three decades of primary health care: reviewing the past and defining the future
- Suwit Wibulpolprasert et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049239
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Breaking a law: tuberculosis disobeys Styblo’s rule
- Christopher Dye
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049510
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NEWS

Thailand’s unsung heroes
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The Bulletin turns 60: the early years
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Health-care provision meets microcredit finance in Argentina
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An interview with Mahmuder Rahman Bangladesh’s arsenic agony
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Recent news from WHO
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RESEARCH

Global costs of attaining the Millennium Development Goal for water supply and sanitation
- Guy Hutton & Jamie Bartram
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.046045
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Prevalence of tuberculous infection and incidence of tuberculosis; a re-assessment of the Styblo rule
- F van Leth et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.037804
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Estimating the costs of achieving the WHO–UNICEF Global Immunization Vision and Strategy, 2006–2015
- Lara J Wolfson et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045096
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High-end physician migration from India
- Manas Kaushik et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.041681
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How much is not enough? Human resources requirements for primary health care: a case study from South Africa
- Emmanuelle Daviaud & Mickey Chopra
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042283
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Beyond good intentions: lessons on equipment donation from an African hospital
- Stephen RC Howie et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042994
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POLICY AND PRACTICE

Monitoring effectiveness of programmes to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in lower-income countries
- Elizabeth M Stringer et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.043117
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Global magnitude of visual impairment caused by uncorrected refractive errors in 2004
- Serge Resnikoff et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.041210
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Increasing tuberculosis case detection: lessons from the Republic of Moldova
- Viorel Soltan et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.038265
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BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine: policy and public health perspectives
- Charlie Changli Xue
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.046458
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Ethics, prevention and public health
- Reiner Banken
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.047043
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GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Current Guidelines for Contributors
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