Volume 86, Number 6, June 2008, 417-496

IN THIS MONTH’S BULLETIN

WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Making progress in AIDS treatment; A standard for world mental health; Combining infant vaccines; Measuring antiretroviral therapy success in low-resource settings; Cost-effective immunization; Using National Immunization Day to monitor children’s health; Primary health care: back to basics; Improving newborn survival rates; A case for screening; Public health classic; Access for all; Trends in stillbirth
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EDITORIALS

Understandings of immunization: some west African perspectives
- Melissa Leach & James Fairhead
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.054726
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Childhood vaccination in Africa and Asia: the effects of parents’ knowledge and attitudes
- Mandip Jheeta & James Newell
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.047159
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Child injuries and violence: the new challenge for child health
- Charles Mock et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.054767
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NEWS

News
Primary health care: back to basics in Madagascar
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Uganda edges closer to AIDS treatment for all
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No vaccine for the scaremongers
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Vaccines for the poor. An interview with Julian Lob-Levyt
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Recent news from WHO
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RESEARCH

Cost of providing the expanded programme on immunization: findings from a facility-based study in Viet Nam, 2005
- Minh Van Hoang et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045161
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Anthropometric and immunological success of antiretroviral therapy and prediction of virological success in west African adults
- Eugène Messou et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042911
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Immunogenicity and safety of a DTaP–IPV//PRP~T combination vaccine given with hepatitis B vaccine: a randomized open-label trial
- Maria Rosario Capeding et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042143
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Implementing community-based perinatal care: results from a pilot study in rural Pakistan
- Zulfiqar A Bhutta et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.045849
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POLICY AND PRACTICE

Long-term trends in fetal mortality: implications for developing countries
- Robert Woods
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.043471
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Evaluating the WHO Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems by comparing mental health policies in four countries
- Hamada Hamid et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.042788
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LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

National Immunization Day: a strategy to monitor health and nutrition indicators
- Leonor Maria Pacheco Santos et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.043638
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PUBLIC HEALTH REVIEWS

Global epidemiology of haemoglobin disorders and derived service indicators
- Bernadette Modell & Matthew Darlison
doi: 10.2471/BLT.06.036673
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ROUND TABLE

Cervical cancer prevention and the Millennium Development Goals
- Scott Wittet & Vivien Tsu
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050450
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A sexual health prevention priority
- Stephen Peckham & Alison Hann
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053876
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Cervical cancer prevention and the Millennium Development Goals
- Jacques Milliez
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053850
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PERSPECTIVES

Reporting the findings of clinical trials: a discussion paper
- D Ghersi et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053769
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PUBLIC HEALTH CLASSICS

The global epidemiology of childhood pneumonia 20 years on
- J Anthony G Scott
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.052753
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LETTERS

A way of measuring poverty that could further a change for the better
- Hermann Feldmeier & Ingela Krantz
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050294
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Contraception is the best kept secret for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission
- Tricia Petruney et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051458
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Access to medication: key to achieving treatment goals
- Hevertton LBS Santos & Nelson Rosario
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051284
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