[Ip-health] Email alert: December issue of the WHO Bulletin

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Dear reader,

This month's cover
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l>  of the Bulletin is of a classic public-health poster on smallpox
eradication. In an interview, Dr Donald A Henderson
<http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/12/08-041208.pdf>  dispels some
myths and talks frankly about his role as chief of WHO's global smallpox
eradication campaign.

Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan & Paul Van Look call for submissions to a
Bulletin theme issue on strengthening the linkages between HIV and
sexual and reproductive health
<http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/12/08-059394.pdf> . Macarthur
Charles et al. call for strategies to target the special needs of
adolescents and youth infected with HIV.

Cui Weiyuan reports from China on how village doctors
<http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/12/08-021208.pdf>  have
dramatically improved access to health care in rural communities.
Wenzhi Wang et al. examine the impact of a community-level intervention
project aimed at reducing the treatment gap for people with epilepsy in
rural China <http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/12/07-047050.pdf> .

Nayu Ikeda et al. provide some explanations for the declining trend in
mean systolic blood pressure
<http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/12/07-050195.pdf>  across the
Japanese adult population. In an editorial, Wilson Savino et al. discuss
how Mozambique <http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/12/08-059584.pdf>
is learning from Brazil's experience in educating its scientists
locally.

Omid Ameli & William Newbrander research the effect of various factors
on predicting the cost of providing health services in Afghanistan
<http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/12/08-053108.pdf> . Hitoshi
Murakami et al. show the effectiveness of a campaign approach for
controlling measles in Viet Nam
<http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/12/07-048579.pdf> .

BO Olusanya et al. determine the feasibility of routine screening of the
hearing <http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/12/07-050005.pdf> of
Nigerian infants attending immunization clinics. Claire Keeton reports
on how the South African authorities have contained the outbreak of a
new type of arenavirus
<http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/12/08-011208.pdf> .

CJ Gill et al. look at the microbiological consequences of
co-trimoxazole prophylaxis
<http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/12/07-049668.pdf>  for infants
with perinatal HIV exposure. Brigit Ramsingh reports on the launch of
the 'new Bulletin' in 1999
<http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/12/08-031208.pdf> . Mathieu
Forster et al. find that insufficient training in electronic medical
databases <http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/12/07-049908.pdf> is
affecting antiretroviral therapy programmes.

Volume 86, Number 12, December 2008, 909-988

IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN

WHO 60th anniversary commemorative volume; Urgent attention needed;
Preventing 'brain drain'; Great strides for village doctors; Bringing
epilepsy out of the shadows; Medication or lifestyle factors?;
Contracting health services in a post-conflict setting; Impact of a
nationwide measles immunization campaign; Community-based hearing
screening; Outbreak of new virus contained; Effects of co-trimoxazole
prophylaxis; History of our journal; More training needed
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EDITORIALS

Local generation of high-quality human resources for health research
- Wilson Savino et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.059584
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Strengthening the linkages between sexual and reproductive health and
HIV: a call for papers
- Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan & Paul Van Look
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.059394
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NEWS

South African doctors move quickly to contain new virus
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China's village doctors take great strides
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The new Bulletin
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Smallpox: dispelling the myths. An interview with Donald Henderson.
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Recent news from WHO
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RESEARCH

Contracting for health services: effects of utilization and quality on
the costs of the Basic Package of Health Services in Afghanistan
- Omid Ameli & William Newbrander
doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.053108
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Effect of presumptive co-trimoxazole prophylaxis on pneumococcal
colonization rates, seroepidemiology and antibiotic resistance in
Zambian infants: a longitudinal cohort study
- CJ Gill et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049668
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Electronic medical record systems, data quality and loss to follow-up:
survey of antiretroviral therapy programmes in resource-limited settings
- Mathieu Forster et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049908
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Epidemiological impact of a nationwide measles immunization campaign in
Viet Nam: a critical review
- Hitoshi Murakami et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048579
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Community-based infant hearing screening for early detection of
permanent hearing loss in Lagos, Nigeria: a cross-sectional study
- BO Olusanya et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050005
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Global campaign against epilepsy: assessment of a demonstration project
in rural China
- Wenzhi Wang et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.047050
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Survival, plasma HIV-1 RNA concentrations and drug resistance in
HIV-1-infected Haitian adolescents and young adults on antiretrovirals
- Macarthur Charles et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050120
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Understanding the decline of mean systolic blood pressure in Japan: an
analysis of pooled data from the National Nutrition Survey, 1986-2002
- Nayu Ikeda et al.
doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.050195
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LETTERS

Caesarean birth as a component of surgical services in low- and
middle-income countries
- Cynthia Stanton & Carine Ronsmans
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Training for Lady Health Workers clarified
- Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Sajid Soofi & Zahid Memon
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