BMJ Oct 1/05 issue focused on Africa
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Dear colleagues,
You may be interested in reading this week's issue of the BMJ
which is focused on Africa. The Table of Contents is included
below.
Kind regards,
Leela McCullough
mailto:leela@healthnet.org
British Medical Journal
Table of Contents for Saturday 01 October 2005
http://bmj.com/content/vol331/issue7519/?etoc
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Editor's choice
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Open your eyes to Africa
Jocalyn Clark
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/0-g?etoc
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This week in the BMJ
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Misoprostol helps anaemic women in childbirth
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/0?etoc
What works for malaria
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/0-a?etoc
Educational outreach improves TB control
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/0-b?etoc
User fees should be dropped in sub-Saharan Africa
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/0-c?etoc
Approaches for improving health in Africa need rethinking
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/0-d?etoc
Women's empowerment may improve HIV prevention
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/0-e?etoc
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Editorials
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Addressing inequalities in research capacity in Africa
Jimmy Volmink and Lola Dare
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/705?etoc
Antimalarial treatment with artemisinin combination therapy in
Africa
Grace Malenga, Ayo Palmer, Sarah Staedke, Walter Kazadi, Theon-
est Mutabingwa, Evelyn Ansah, Karen I Barnes, Christopher JM
Whitty
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/706?etoc
Meeting millennium development goals 3 and 5
Bertha Nhlema Simwaka, Sally Theobald, Yaa Peprah Amekudzi, Ra-
chel Tolhurst
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/708?etoc
Medicines supply in Africa
Jonathan D Quick, Nana-Adjoa Boohene, James Rankin, Romuald J
Mbwasi
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/709?etoc
Road safety in Africa
Meleckidzedeck Khayesi and Margie Peden
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/710?etoc
Tackling cardiovascular disease in Africa
S Kadiri
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/711?etoc
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News
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US is accused of jeopardising HIV prevention in Uganda
Ozge Tuncalp
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/715?etoc
US state rejects federal funding for abstinence only sex educa-
tion
Janice Hopkins Tanne
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/715-a?etoc
Global Fund toughens stance against corruption
Lynn Eaton
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/718?etoc
Africa theme issue: Making up for lost time
Pat Sidley
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/719?etoc
Africa theme issue: Providing nomadic people with health care
Deborah Cohen
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/720?etoc
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News extra
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Loss of Unicef post raises concern among child nutrition pres-
sure groups
Owen Dyer
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/720-a?etoc
Tackling mental health in Sierra Leone
Joe Asare and Lynne Jones
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/720-b?etoc
Zimbabwe says the proportion of HIV positive adults has fallen
from a third to a fifth
Pat Sidley
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/720-c?etoc
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Papers
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Effect of sublingual misoprostol on severe postpartum haemor-
rhage in a primary health centre in Guinea-Bissau: randomised
double blind clinical trial
Lars Hoj, Placido Cardoso, Birgitte Bruun Nielsen, Lone Hvidman,
Jens Nielsen, Peter Aaby
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/723?etoc
Cluster randomised trial of intermittent preventive treatment
for malaria in infants in area of high, seasonal transmission in
Ghana
Daniel Chandramohan, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Ilona Carneiro, Timothy
Awine, Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, Nathan Mensah, Shabbar Jaffar,
Rita Baiden, Abraham Hodgson, Fred Binka, Brian Greenwood
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/727?etoc
Treatment of paediatric malaria during a period of drug transi-
tion to artemether-lumefantrine in Zambia: cross sectional study
Dejan Zurovac, Mickey Ndhlovu, Alexander K Rowe, Davidson H
Hamer, Donald M Thea, Robert W Snow
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/734?etoc
Healer shopping in Africa: new evidence from rural-urban quali-
tative study of Ghanaian diabetes experiences
Ama de-Graft Aikins
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/737?etoc
Randomised controlled trials in Africa of HIV and AIDS: descrip-
tive study and spatial distribution
Nandi Siegfried, Mike Clarke, Jimmy Volmink
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/742?etoc
Impact on child mortality of removing user fees: simulation
model
Chris James, Saul S Morris, Regina Keith, Anna Taylor
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/747?etoc
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Primary care
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Effect of educational outreach to nurses on tuberculosis case
detection and primary care of respiratory illness: pragmatic
cluster randomised controlled trial
Lara R Fairall, Merrick Zwarenstein, Eric D Bateman, Max Bach-
mann, Carl Lombard, Bosielo P Majara, Gina Joubert, Rene G Eng-
lish, Angeni Bheekie, Dingie van Rensburg, Pat Myers, Annatjie C
Peters, Ronald D Chapman
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/750?etoc
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Education and debate
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Confronting Africa's health crisis: more of the same will not be
enough
D M Sanders, C Todd, M Chopra
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/755?etoc
Health systems financing: putting together the "back office"
Lola Dare and Anne Reeler
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/759?etoc
Removing user fees for primary care in Africa: the need for
careful action
Lucy Gilson and Di McIntyre
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/762?etoc
System and market failures: the unavailability of magnesium sul-
phate for the treatment of eclampsia and pre-eclampsia in Mozam-
bique and Zimbabwe
E Sevene, S Lewin, A Mariano, G Woelk, A D Oxman, S Matinhure, J
Cliff, B Fernandes, K Daniels
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/765?etoc
Gaining a foothold: tackling poverty, gender inequality, and HIV
in Africa
Julia C Kim and Charlotte H Watts
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/769?etoc
Patients' readiness to start highly active antiretroviral treat-
ment for HIV
Hirut T Gebrekristos, Koleka P Mlisana, Quarraisha Abdool Karim
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/772?etoc
Achieving food security in vulnerable populations
Deborah Cohen
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/775?etoc
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Letters
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A theme issue by, for, and about Africa: Results from Ugandan
programme preventing maternal transmission of HIV
Marina Giuliano, Michele Magoni, Luciana Bassani, Pius Okong,
Praxedes Kituka Namaganda, Saul Onyango
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/778?etoc
A theme issue by, for, and about Africa: New injecting practice
increases HIV risk among drug users in Tanzania
Sheryl A McCurdy, Mark L Williams, Michael W Ross, Gad P
Kilonzo, M T Leshabari
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/778-a?etoc
A theme issue by, for, and about Africa: Palliative care and
antiretroviral treatment can be integrated
Catherine Senyimba, Edmund Mwebesa, Siobhan Kennelly, Karen
Frame, Richard Harding
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/778-b?etoc
A theme issue by, for, and about Africa: Maternal mortality in
rural Burkina Faso
Issiaka Sombie, Nicolas Meda, Odette Ky-Zerbo, Michele Dramaix-
Wilmet, Simon Cousens
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/779?etoc
A theme issue by, for, and about Africa: Collaborative work be-
tween Nigeria and UK on breast cancer has been successful
Isaac D Gukas, Barbara A Jennings, Samuel J Leinster, Ian Harvey
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/779-a?etoc
A theme issue by, for, and about Africa: Tackling the challenge
of diabetes
David Beran and John S Yudkin
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/779-b?etoc
A theme issue by, for, and about Africa: South Africa is still
blighted by trauma
Douglas M Bowley, Euan J Dickson, Nigel Tai, Jacques Goosen,
Kenneth D Boffard
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/780?etoc
Africa's medical brain drain: Brain gain and brain circulation
result when drain is reversed
Joseph N Ana
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/780-a?etoc
Africa's medical brain drain: Why I want to stay in Africa
Emmanuel Makasa
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/780-b?etoc
Africa's medical brain drain: Summary of responses to recent
editorial on stopping Africa's brain drain
Birte Twisselmann
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/780-c?etoc
Issues arising from lobby of UN to outlaw circumcision
George Hill and John V Geisheker
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/781?etoc
Making dirty water drinkable: Kitchen garden scheme is alterna-
tive...
Frank J Leavitt and Mrinalinee Vanarase
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/781-a?etoc
Making dirty water drinkable: ...as is the drumstick tree
Arunachalam Kumar and C Jairaj Kumar
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/781-b?etoc
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reviews
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Press: A different picture of Africa
Gillian Baker and Petra Boynton
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/782?etoc
TV: Africa Live
Leslie Lee
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/783?etoc
Book: As They See It: The Development of the African AIDS Dis-
course
Dunstan Raphael Bishanga
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/783-a?etoc
PERSONAL VIEWS: Africa does not need aid, but the opportunity
for fair trade
Inwani Malweyi
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/784?etoc
Hit parade
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/784-a?etoc
PERSONAL VIEWS: Western and traditional African medicine--
working together on AIDS
Neil Andersson
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/785?etoc
SOUNDINGS: Out of Africa
Imre Loefler
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/785-a?etoc
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Minerva
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Minerva
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/786?etoc
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Fillers
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POEM*: Statins are not associated with decreased risk of demen-
tia http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/0-f?etoc
BMA and BMJ Information Fund
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/712?etoc
Profiles of local African organisations doing research
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7519/758?etoc
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