Open your eyes to Africa
	Jocalyn Clark
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This week in the BMJ

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	Misoprostol helps anaemic women in childbirth [Full text] FREE

	What works for malaria [Full text] FREE

	Educational outreach improves TB control [Full text] FREE

	User fees should be dropped in sub-Saharan Africa [Full text] FREE

	Approaches for improving health in Africa need rethinking [Full text] FREE

	Women's empowerment may improve HIV prevention [Full text] FREE

Editorials

	Addressing inequalities in research capacity in Africa
	Jimmy Volmink, Lola Dare
	BMJ  2005;331:705-706, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.705 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Antimalarial treatment with artemisinin combination therapy in Africa
	Grace Malenga, Ayo Palmer, Sarah Staedke, Walter Kazadi, Theonest Mutabingwa, Evelyn Ansah, Karen I Barnes, Christopher JM Whitty
	BMJ  2005;331:706-707, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.706 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Meeting millennium development goals 3 and 5
	Bertha Nhlema Simwaka, Sally Theobald, Yaa Peprah Amekudzi, Rachel Tolhurst
	BMJ  2005;331:708-709, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.708 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Medicines supply in Africa
	Jonathan D Quick, Nana-Adjoa Boohene, James Rankin, Romuald J Mbwasi
	BMJ  2005;331:709-710, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.709 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Road safety in Africa
	Meleckidzedeck Khayesi, Margie Peden
	BMJ  2005;331:710-711, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.710 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Tackling cardiovascular disease in Africa
	S Kadiri
	BMJ  2005;331:711-712, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.711 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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
	BMJ  2005;331:778, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.778 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	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
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	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
	BMJ  2005;331:778-779, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.778-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A theme issue by, for, and about Africa: Maternal mortality in rural Burkina Faso
	Issiaka Sombie, Nicolas Meda, Odette Ky-Zerbo, Michèle Dramaix-Wilmet, Simon Cousens
	BMJ  2005;331:779, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.779 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A theme issue by, for, and about Africa: Collaborative work between Nigeria and UK on breast cancer has been successful
	Isaac D Gukas, Barbara A Jennings, Samuel J Leinster, Ian Harvey
	BMJ  2005;331:779, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.779-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A theme issue by, for, and about Africa: Tackling the challenge of diabetes
	David Beran, John S Yudkin
	BMJ  2005;331:779-780, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.779-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	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
	BMJ  2005;331:780, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.780 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Africa's medical brain drain: Brain gain and brain circulation result when drain is reversed
	Joseph N Ana
	BMJ  2005;331:780, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.780-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Africa's medical brain drain: Why I want to stay in Africa
	Emmanuel Makasa
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	Africa's medical brain drain: Summary of responses to recent editorial on stopping Africa's brain drain
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2005;331:780-781, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.780-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Issues arising from lobby of UN to outlaw circumcision
	George Hill, John V Geisheker
	BMJ  2005;331:781, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.781 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Making dirty water drinkable: Kitchen garden scheme is alternative...
	Frank J Leavitt, Mrinalinee Vanarase
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	Making dirty water drinkable: ...as is the drumstick tree
	Arunachalam Kumar, C Jairaj Kumar
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News

	FDA chief resigns without warning
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:713, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.713 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Writers join experts to campaign to save NHS from privatisation
	Sophie Arie
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	In brief
	BMJ  2005;331:714, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.714 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	US teenager's parents sue school over depression screening test
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2005;331:714, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.714-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Psychological therapy must accompany antidepressants in young people
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;331:714, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.714-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	US is accused of jeopardising HIV prevention in Uganda
	Ozge Tuncalp
	BMJ  2005;331:715, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.715 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	US state rejects federal funding for abstinence only sex education
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2005;331:715, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.715-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	GP is disciplined for willingness to help friend commit suicide
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:717, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.717-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Global Fund toughens stance against corruption
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;331:718, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.718 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Africa theme issue: Making up for lost time
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2005;331:719, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.719 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Africa theme issue: Providing nomadic people with health care
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2005;331:720, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.720 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	NICE plans faster guidance on drugs for the NHS
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;331:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.716 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	European Commission calls for changes to reduce deaths from air pollution
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2005;331:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.716-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Cancer cells on the move
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2005;331:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.716-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Charity did not break law in giving information about late abortions
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.716-c [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	NHS trusts urge caution over BMA finance survey
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2005;331:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.716-d [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Study finds that costly new antipsychotics offer few benefits over traditional drugs
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2005;331:717, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.717 [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Patients who are given self help books are no less likely to see their doctor
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2005;331:717, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.717-a [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Woman takes fight over frozen embryos to European court
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:717, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.717-b [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Loss of Unicef post raises concern among child nutrition pressure groups
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2005;331:720, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.720-a [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Tackling mental health in Sierra Leone
	Joe Asare, Lynne Jones
	BMJ  2005;331:720, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.720-b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Zimbabwe says the proportion of HIV positive adults has fallen from a third to a fifth
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2005;331:720, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.720-c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Bureau urges continuity in antiepilepsy treatment
	Faye van Emmerik
	BMJ  2005;331:720, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.720-d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Short cuts

	What's new in the other general journals
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2005;331:721-722, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.721 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

	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 Bachmann, Carl Lombard, Bosielo P Majara, Gina Joubert, Rene G English, Angeni Bheekie, Dingie van Rensburg, Pat Mayers, Annatjie C Peters, Ronald D Chapman
	BMJ  2005;331:750-754, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.750 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: The guideline and desk blotter are][extra: Revised acknowledgement] FREE

Education and debate

	Confronting Africa's health crisis: more of the same will not be enough
	D M Sanders, C Todd, M Chopra
	BMJ  2005;331:755-758, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.755 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Health systems financing: putting together the "back office"
	Lola Dare, Anne Reeler
	BMJ  2005;331:759-762, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.759 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Removing user fees for primary care in Africa: the need for careful action
	Lucy Gilson, Di McIntyre
	BMJ  2005;331:762-765, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.762 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	System and market failures: the unavailability of magnesium sulphate for the treatment of eclampsia and pre-eclampsia in Mozambique and Zimbabwe
	E Sevene, S Lewin, A Mariano, G Woelk, A D Oxman, S Matinhure, J Cliff, B Fernandes, K Daniels
	BMJ  2005;331:765-769, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.765 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Gaining a foothold: tackling poverty, gender inequality, and HIV in Africa
	Julia C Kim, Charlotte H Watts
	BMJ  2005;331:769-772, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.769 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patients' readiness to start highly active antiretroviral treatment for HIV
	Hirut T Gebrekristos, Koleka P Mlisana, Quarraisha Abdool Karim
	BMJ  2005;331:772-775, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.772 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Achieving food security in vulnerable populations
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2005;331:775-777, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.775 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Reviews

	Press: A different picture of Africa
	Gillian Baker, Petra Boynton
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	TV: Africa Live
	Leslie Lee
	BMJ  2005;331:783, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.783 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: As They See It: The Development of the African AIDS Discourse
	Dunstan Raphael Bishanga
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	PERSONAL VIEWS: Africa does not need aid, but the opportunity for fair trade
	Inwani Malweyi
	BMJ  2005;331:784, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.784 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Hit parade
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	PERSONAL VIEWS: Western and traditional African medicine—working together on AIDS
	Neil Andersson
	BMJ  2005;331:785, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.785 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	SOUNDINGS: Out of Africa
	Imre Loefler
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Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2005;331:786, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.786 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

	POEM*: Statins are not associated with decreased risk of dementia
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	BMA and BMJ Information Fund
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	Profiles of local African organisations doing research
	BMJ  2005;331:758, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.758 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Profiles of local African organisations doing research] FREE

Career focus

	I have recently passed my membership exam in psychiatry and plan to take a few months out before starting my specialist registrar jobs. How can I do voluntary work as a psychiatrist with tsunami victims and aid workers in Southeast Asia?
	Shera Chok
	BMJ  2005;331:s134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.s134, (Published 1 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Where can I train in neurolinguistic programming? I am confused by all the different providers and would welcome advice that points me to a relevant course for doctors.
	Susan Kersley
	BMJ  2005;331:s134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.s134-a, (Published 1 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am an overseas doctor looking for jobs and finding it hard to get one. I managed to get limited registration and did a few locums, but I am now jobless. Recently, I noticed an SHO post in microbiology has been advertised in Manchester. I am interested in microbiology and would love to do it. However, I am not sure of future opportunities and the current level of competition. Please advise.
	Andrew Wilson
	BMJ  2005;331:s134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.s134-b, (Published 1 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am an Egyptian doctor and I have passed the part 1 membership exam for the Royal College of Physicians. Can I work in England as an SHO?
	Faisal Hanif
	BMJ  2005;331:s134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.s134-c, (Published 1 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2005;331:gp135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.sgp135, (Published 1 October 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Remote and rural general practice in Scotland
	Charles Siderfin
	BMJ  2005;331:gp135-gp136, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.sgp135-a, (Published 1 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2005;331:s135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.s135, (Published 1 October 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A career in rural general hospitals
	Andrew Sim
	BMJ  2005;331:s135-s136, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.s135-a, (Published 1 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Remote and rural medicine: Orkney SHO training post
	Simon Brownleader
	BMJ  2005;331:gp137-gp138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.sgp137, (Published 1 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Experience of a junior doctor in a rural general hospital
	Motaz Qadan
	BMJ  2005;331:s137-s138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.s137, (Published 1 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	GP consultations
	Emma Radcliffe, Sian Howell
	BMJ  2005;331:gp138, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.sgp138, (Published 1 October 2005) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Media doctors—medicolegal pitfalls
	Cathey Dukes
	BMJ  2005;331:s139, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.s139, (Published 1 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Software solutions (2)
	Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
	BMJ  2005;331:s140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.s140, (Published 1 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Hazards of handwashing
	Ewan Wilson
	BMJ  2005;331:s141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.s141, (Published 1 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A people's peer and disability campaigner
	John Bonner
	BMJ  2005;331:s142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.s142, (Published 1 October 2005) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Papers

	Effect of sublingual misoprostol on severe postpartum haemorrhage in a primary health centre in Guinea-Bissau: randomised double blind clinical trial
	Lars Høj, Placido Cardoso, Birgitte Bruun Nielsen, Lone Hvidman, Jens Nielsen, Peter Aaby
	BMJ  2005;331:723, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.723 [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	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
	BMJ  2005;331:727-733, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.727 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Figure and 3 tables] FREE

	Treatment of paediatric malaria during a period of drug transition to artemether-lumefantrine in Zambia: cross sectional study
	Dejan Zurovac, Mickey Ndhlovu, Alexander K Rowe, Davidson H Hamer, Donald M Thea, Robert W Snow
	BMJ  2005;331:734, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.734 [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Healer shopping in Africa: new evidence from rural-urban qualitative study of Ghanaian diabetes experiences
	Ama de-Graft Aikins
	BMJ  2005;331:737, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.737 [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trials in Africa of HIV and AIDS: descriptive study and spatial distribution
	Nandi Siegfried, Mike Clarke, Jimmy Volmink
	BMJ  2005;331:742, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.742 [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details] FREE

	Impact on child mortality of removing user fees: simulation model
	Chris James, Saul S Morris, Regina Keith, Anna Taylor
	BMJ  2005;331:747-749, doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7519.747 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Appendix] FREE

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