The power of women, community, and Bob Geldof
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2004;329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.0-h [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Thalassaemia screening in Iran works [Full text] FREE

	New IT system supports HIV/AIDS treatment in Haiti [Full text] FREE

	Community initiatives reduce maternal mortality [Full text] FREE

	Policies on essential drugs help contain costs [Full text] FREE

	Kangaroo care has wide potential [Full text] FREE

	Innovation can overcome limited resources [Full text] FREE

	Learning from "positive deviance" [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Poor countries make the best teachers: discuss
	Tessa Richards, James Tumwine
	BMJ  2004;329:1113-1114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1113 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Standards of care in research
	Zulfiqar Bhutta
	BMJ  2004;329:1114-1115, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1114 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lessons from thalassaemia screening in Iran
	Arnold Christianson, Allison Streetly, Aamra Darr
	BMJ  2004;329:1115-1117, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1115 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Health systems and the community
	Vinod Paul
	BMJ  2004;329:1117-1118, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1117 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Highly active antiretroviral therapy
	Peter Mugyenyi
	BMJ  2004;329:1118-1119, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1118 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Knowledge for better health
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2004;329:1120, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1120 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Communities should decide priorities
	Paul Eunson
	BMJ  2004;329:1183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1183 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Communities improve health systems
	Masamine Jimba, Susumu Wakai
	BMJ  2004;329:1183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1183-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Community oral rehydration units can contain cholera epidemics
	Walter H Curioso, J Jaime Miranda, Ann Marie Kimball
	BMJ  2004;329:1183-1184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1183-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Palliative care can be delivered through neighbourhood networks
	Suresh Kumar
	BMJ  2004;329:1184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1184 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Trained medical assistants can successfully do work of doctors
	Peter Bewes
	BMJ  2004;329:1184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1184-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Hands on course may help deliver obstetric care
	Peter Blackwell-Smyth, Michael Breen, Kim Hinshaw
	BMJ  2004;329:1184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1184-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Partnerships in mental health are possible without multidisciplinary teams
	Nisha Dogra, Olayinka O Omigbodun
	BMJ  2004;329:1184-1185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1184-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Effective surgery can be cheap and innovative
	Anuruddha M Abeygunasekera
	BMJ  2004;329:1185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1185 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Health information technology need not cost the earth
	Luis Carlos Silva, Pedro Urra
	BMJ  2004;329:1185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1185-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Emphasis on sophisticated investigations could be reduced, for example
	Kaushal R Pandey
	BMJ  2004;329:1185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1185-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Health is a dynamic process
	P C Das
	BMJ  2004;329:1185-1186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1185-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Improvement can occur even in resource constrained settings
	Rocío Sapag, Jaime Bayona
	BMJ  2004;329:1186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1186 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Website highlights ethics issues for research in developing countries
	David Dickson
	BMJ  2004;329:1186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1186-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Sources of information should focus on developing countries
	James N Newell, Andrew S Furber
	BMJ  2004;329:1186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1186-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	European Union may relax rules on marketing baby milk
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2004;329:1121, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1121 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	WHO denies suppressing report on junk food
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2004;329:1121, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1121-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;329:1122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1122 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	MP criticises government response on open access publishing
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2004;329:1122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1122-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Will Bush's insurance scheme help the uninsured?
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;329:1123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1123 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Old drugs for heart failure nearly halve deaths in black people
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;329:1123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1123-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: Supporting surgery for obstetric fistula
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2004;329:1125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1125 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: An extra dollar can go a long way
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2004;329:1126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1126 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: Demystifying health care
	Khabir Ahmad
	BMJ  2004;329:1127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1127 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: From looking at cells to looking at systems
	David Weatherall
	BMJ  2004;329:1128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1128 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Heart disease in diabetic patients is undertreated
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2004;329:1124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1124 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Government will not bail out trusts in difficulty, minister says
	Kathryn Godfrey
	BMJ  2004;329:1124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1124-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	More surveillance of drugs is needed to protect public
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2004;329:1124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1124-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	NHS agrees discount with Microsoft to save £330m on software over nine years
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;329:1124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1124-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Bangladesh group has trained 30 000 community health workers
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2004;329:1124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1124-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	NHS agrees 7% price reduction for prescription drugs for next five years
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;329:1128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1128-a [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Proposed Mental Health Bill may breach human rights, says Law Society
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;329:1128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1128-b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Babies fed defective formula are still being treated for neurological damage
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2004;329:1128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1128-c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Crotaline snake bite in the Ecuadorian Amazon: randomised double blind comparative trial of three South American polyspecific antivenoms
	Roger Smalligan, Judy Cole, Narcissa Brito, Gavin D Laing, Bruce L Mertz, Steven Manock, Jeffrey Maudlin, Brad Quist, Gary Holland, Stephen Nelson, David G Lalloo, Gonzalo Rivadeneira, Maria Elena Barragan, Daniel Dolley, Michael Eddleston, David A Warrell, R David G Theakston
	BMJ  2004;329:1129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1129 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Iranian national thalassaemia screening programme
	Ashraf Samavat, Bernadette Modell
	BMJ  2004;329:1134-1137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1134 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of programme's performance] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: mental health
	Kwame McKenzie, Vikram Patel, Ricardo Araya
	BMJ  2004;329:1138-1140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1138 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Community models of mental care warrant more governmental support
	Malcolm W Battersby
	BMJ  2004;329:1140-1141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1140 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References w1 - w9] FREE

Quality improvement report

This week's Quality improvement report

	Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV: evaluation of a pilot programme in a district hospital in rural Zimbabwe
	Freddy Perez, Joanna Orne-Gliemann, Tarisai Mukotekwa, Anna Miller, Monica Glenshaw, Agnes Mahomva, François Dabis
	BMJ  2004;329:1147-1150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1147 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reducing length of stay in hospital for very low birthweight infants by involving mothers in a stepdown unit: an experience from Karachi (Pakistan)
	Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Iqtidar Khan, Suhail Salat, Farukh Raza, Husan Ara
	BMJ  2004;329:1151-1155, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1151 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	An information system and medical record to support HIV treatment in rural Haiti
	Hamish S F Fraser, Darius Jazayeri, Patrice Nevil, Yusuf Karacaoglu, Paul E Farmer, Evan Lyon, Mary Kay C Smith Fawzi, Fernet Leandre, Sharon S Choi, Joia S Mukherjee
	BMJ  2004;329:1142-1146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1142 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Traditional herbal medicines for malaria
	Merlin L Willcox, Gerard Bodeker
	BMJ  2004;329:1156-1159, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1156 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of description of methods] FREE

	Innovative low cost technologies for biomedical research and diagnosis in developing countries
	Josefina Coloma, Eva Harris
	BMJ  2004;329:1160-1162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1160 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Respondents who contributed to the article through the questionnaire] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Expanding antiretroviral therapy in Malawi: drawing on the country's experience with tuberculosis
	Anthony D Harries, Edwin Libamba, Erik J Schouten, Andrina Mwansambo, Felix M Salaniponi, Rex Mpazanje
	BMJ  2004;329:1163-1166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1163 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: A box of components of the DOTS strategy and a patient record chart] FREE

	Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in the poorest communities
	Anthony Costello, David Osrin, Dharma Manandhar
	BMJ  2004;329:1166-1168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1166 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References w1 -w13] FREE

	The concept of essential medicines: lessons for rich countries
	Hans V Hogerzeil
	BMJ  2004;329:1169-1172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1169 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References w1 - w10] FREE

	Commentary: The pros and cons of essential medicines for rich countries
	Marcus M Reidenberg, Tom Walley
	BMJ  2004;329:1172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1172 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from failed health reform in Uganda
	Sam Agatre Okuonzi
	BMJ  2004;329:1173-1175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1173 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: the devil is in the detail
	Martin McKee, Barbara McPake
	BMJ  2004;329:1175-1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1175 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The power of positive deviance
	David R Marsh, Dirk G Schroeder, Kirk A Dearden, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin
	BMJ  2004;329:1177-1179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1177 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further examples and references] FREE

	Kangaroo Mother Care, an example to follow from developing countries
	Juan Gabriel Ruiz-Peláez, Nathalie Charpak, Luis Gabriel Cuervo
	BMJ  2004;329:1179-1181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1179 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references w1 - w20] FREE

	Commentary: Family friendly care
	Neil Marlow
	BMJ  2004;329:1182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1182 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Gleb Solovyev
	Boleslav Lichterman
	BMJ  2004;329:1187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1187 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Yaa Opokua Antwi-Yeboah
	Edward Osei
	BMJ  2004;329:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1188 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	David Ernest Calwell
	H Calwell
	BMJ  2004;329:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1188-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Richard Alan Cobb
	Carol Cobb
	BMJ  2004;329:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1188-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Graham George Haigh
	Gordon Cameron
	BMJ  2004;329:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1188-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	James McGregor ("Greg") Imray
	George Robertson
	BMJ  2004;329:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1188-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	John Page Raw
	David Raw
	BMJ  2004;329:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1188-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Moutaz Mohamed Ahmed Siddig
	Jane Hussey
	BMJ  2004;329:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1188-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Website of the week: Learning from one another to bridge the "know-do gap"
	Neil Pakenham-Walsh
	BMJ  2004;329:1189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1189 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Art: Asia: Body Mind Spirit
	Kristina Fister
	BMJ  2004;329:1189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1189-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Double Standards in Medical Research in Developing Countries
	Udo Schuklenk
	BMJ  2004;329:1190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1190 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Journal: PLoS Medicine
	Paul Garner, Helen Smith
	BMJ  2004;329:1190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1190-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Film: Indian "psycho"
	Dinesh Bhugra
	BMJ  2004;329:1191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1191 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: A better way to manage development
	Peter Burgess
	BMJ  2004;329:1192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1192 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Seven lessons from Africa
	Robin Stott
	BMJ  2004;329:1193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1193 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	SOUNDINGS: Look east
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2004;329:1193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1193-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;329:1194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1194 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: SSRIs provide modest benefit in selected patients with IBS
	BMJ  2004;329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Q&A;: Linking a computer with a microscope
	Katpadi Varadarajan Arulalan, C S B R Prasad, Jonathan R Osborn
	BMJ  2004;329:1133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1133 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The educational opportunities of the ward washbasin
	Peter Savage
	BMJ  2004;329:1137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1137 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable patient: The power of song
	Ian Nesbitt
	BMJ  2004;329:1141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1141 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable patient: The sincerest form of flattery
	Sandeep B Bavdekar
	BMJ  2004;329:1150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1150 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Theme issues (2005): Call for papers
	BMJ  2004;329:1162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1162 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Learning from low income countries: Webchat
	BMJ  2004;329:1168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1168 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Run with your client, not after
	Jim Cromwell
	BMJ  2004;329:1176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1176 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: The ideal doctors
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2004;329:1182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1182-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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