Volume 86, Number 4, April 2008, 241-320

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Best of both worlds; Why do so many women die?; Typhoid fever; Reaching out to the poor; Female genital mutilation; Inequity in maternal health-care; Routine HIV testing in hospitals; Action for child survival; Tracking HIV patients; High disease burden in remote Aboriginal communities; Malnutrition in developing countries; Perinatal asphyxia; Screening 40 years on
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EDITORIALS

Steps towards achieving skilled attendance at birth
- Cynthia Stanton
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052928
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Achieving Millennium Development Goal 5: is India serious?
- Dileep Mavalankar et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048454
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NEWS

News
Mexico’s midwives enter the mainstream
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Australia’s disturbing health disparities set Aboriginals apart
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Flawed but fair: Brazil’s health system reaches out to the poor
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An interview with Joy Lawn: Hidden deaths of the world’s newborn babies
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Recent news from WHO
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RESEARCH

Inequity in maternal health-care services: evidence from home-based skilled-birth-attendant programmes in Bangladesh
- I Anwar et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042754
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A study of typhoid fever in five Asian countries: disease burden and implications for controls
- R Leon Ochiai et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.039818
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Prevalence of female genital cutting among Egyptian girls
- Mohammed A Tag-Eldin et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042093
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Disease burden and health-care clinic attendances for young children in remote Aboriginal communities of northern Australia
- Danielle B Clucas et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.043034
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Socioeconomic inequality in malnutrition in developing countries
- Ellen Van de Poel et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044800
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Action for child survival: elimination of Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis in Uganda
- Rosamund F Lewis et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045336
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Acceptability of routine HIV counselling and testing, and HIV seroprevalence in Ugandan hospitals
- Rhoda K Wanyenze et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042580
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LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

Assessing the quality of data aggregated by antiretroviral treatment clinics in Malawi
- Simon D Makombe et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.044685
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PERSPECTIVE

Preventing those so-called stillbirths
- Jonathan M Spector & Subhash Daga
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049924
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PUBLIC HEALTH CLASSICS

Revisiting Wilson and Jungner in the genomic age: a review of screening criteria over the past 40 years
- Anne Andermann et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050112
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BOOKS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Screening: evidence and practice
- Anthony Miller
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048744
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LETTERS

Defeating dengue: new mosquito genome, old promise?
- Thomas C Erren & Michael Erren
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051003
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