01 October 2005 (Vol 331, Issue 7519)

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Editor's Choice

Open your eyes to Africa

BMJ 2005;331:0.8 (Published 29 September 2005)

News

FDA chief resigns without warning

BMJ 2005;331:713.1 (Published 29 September 2005)

Writers join experts to campaign to save NHS from privatisation

BMJ 2005;331:713.2 (Published 29 September 2005)

In brief

BMJ 2005;331:714.1 (Published 29 September 2005)

US teenager's parents sue school over depression screening test

BMJ 2005;331:714.2 (Published 29 September 2005)

Psychological therapy must accompany antidepressants in young people

BMJ 2005;331:714.3 (Published 29 September 2005)

US is accused of jeopardising HIV prevention in Uganda

BMJ 2005;331:715.1 (Published 29 September 2005)

US state rejects federal funding for abstinence only sex education

BMJ 2005;331:715.2 (Published 29 September 2005)

GP is disciplined for willingness to help friend commit suicide

BMJ 2005;331:717.4 (Published 29 September 2005)

Global Fund toughens stance against corruption

BMJ 2005;331:718 (Published 29 September 2005)

Making up for lost time

BMJ 2005;331:719 (Published 29 September 2005)

Providing nomadic people with health care

BMJ 2005;331:720.1 (Published 29 September 2005)

Editorials

Addressing inequalities in research capacity in Africa

BMJ 2005;331:705 (Published 29 September 2005)

Antimalarial treatment with artemisinin combination therapy in Africa

BMJ 2005;331:706 (Published 29 September 2005)

Meeting millennium development goals 3 and 5

BMJ 2005;331:708 (Published 29 September 2005)

Medicines supply in Africa

BMJ 2005;331:709 (Published 29 September 2005)

Road safety in Africa

BMJ 2005;331:710 (Published 29 September 2005)

Tackling cardiovascular disease in Africa

BMJ 2005;331:711 (Published 29 September 2005)

Letters

This week's Letters section

A theme issue by, for, and about Africa

BMJ 2005;331:778.1 (Published 29 September 2005)

A theme issue by, for, and about Africa

BMJ 2005;331:778.2 (Published 29 September 2005)

A theme issue by, for, and about Africa

BMJ 2005;331:778.3 (Published 29 September 2005)

A theme issue by, for, and about Africa

BMJ 2005;331:779.1 (Published 29 September 2005)

A theme issue by, for, and about Africa

BMJ 2005;331:779.2 (Published 29 September 2005)

A theme issue by, for, and about Africa

BMJ 2005;331:779.3 (Published 29 September 2005)

A theme issue by, for, and about Africa

BMJ 2005;331:780.1 (Published 29 September 2005)

Letters - continued

Africa's medical brain drain

BMJ 2005;331:780.2 (Published 29 September 2005)

Africa's medical brain drain

BMJ 2005;331:780.3 (Published 29 September 2005)

Africa's medical brain drain

BMJ 2005;331:780.4 (Published 29 September 2005)

Issues arising from lobby of UN to outlaw circumcision

BMJ 2005;331:781.1 (Published 29 September 2005)

Making dirty water drinkable

BMJ 2005;331:781.2 (Published 29 September 2005)

Making dirty water drinkable

BMJ 2005;331:781.3 (Published 29 September 2005)

This Week In the BMJ

Women's empowerment may improve HIV prevention

BMJ 2005;331:0.6 (Published 29 September 2005)

Misoprostol helps anaemic women in childbirth

BMJ 2005;331:0.1 (Published 29 September 2005)

Approaches for improving health in Africa need rethinking

BMJ 2005;331:0.5 (Published 29 September 2005)

User fees should be dropped in sub-Saharan Africa

BMJ 2005;331:0.4 (Published 29 September 2005)

Educational outreach improves TB control

BMJ 2005;331:0.3 (Published 29 September 2005)

What works for malaria

BMJ 2005;331:0.2 (Published 29 September 2005)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2005;331:786 (Published 29 September 2005)

Fillers

Statins are not associated with decreased risk of dementia

BMJ 2005;331:0.7 (Published 29 September 2005)

BMA and BMJ Information Fund

BMJ 2005;331:712 (Published 29 September 2005)

Profiles of local African organisations doing research

BMJ 2005;331:758 (Published 29 September 2005)

Short cuts

What's new in the other general journals

BMJ 2005;331:721 (Published 29 September 2005)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

NICE plans faster guidance on drugs for the NHS

BMJ 2005;331:716.1 (Published 29 September 2005)

European Commission calls for changes to reduce deaths from air pollution

BMJ 2005;331:716.2 (Published 29 September 2005)

Cancer cells on the move

BMJ 2005;331:716.3 (Published 29 September 2005)

Charity did not break law in giving information about late abortions

BMJ 2005;331:716.4 (Published 29 September 2005)

NHS trusts urge caution over BMA finance survey

BMJ 2005;331:716.5 (Published 29 September 2005)

Study finds that costly new antipsychotics offer few benefits over traditional drugs

BMJ 2005;331:717.1 (Published 29 September 2005)

Patients who are given self help books are no less likely to see their doctor

BMJ 2005;331:717.2 (Published 29 September 2005)

Woman takes fight over frozen embryos to European court

BMJ 2005;331:717.3 (Published 29 September 2005)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Loss of Unicef post raises concern among child nutrition pressure groups

BMJ 2005;331:720.2 (Published 29 September 2005)

Tackling mental health in Sierra Leone

BMJ 2005;331:720.3 (Published 29 September 2005)

Zimbabwe says the proportion of HIV positive adults has fallen from a third to a fifth

BMJ 2005;331:720.4 (Published 29 September 2005)

Bureau urges continuity in antiepilepsy treatment

BMJ 2005;331:720.5 (Published 29 September 2005)

Papers

Effect of sublingual misoprostol on severe postpartum haemorrhage in a primary health centre in Guinea-Bissau: randomised double blind clinical trial

BMJ 2005;331:723 (Published 29 September 2005)

Cluster randomised trial of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants in area of high, seasonal transmission in Ghana

BMJ 2005;331:727 (Published 29 September 2005)

Treatment of paediatric malaria during a period of drug transition to artemether-lumefantrine in Zambia: cross sectional study

BMJ 2005;331:734 (Published 29 September 2005)

Healer shopping in Africa: new evidence from rural-urban qualitative study of Ghanaian diabetes experiences

BMJ 2005;331:737 (Published 29 September 2005)

Randomised controlled trials in Africa of HIV and AIDS: descriptive study and spatial distribution

BMJ 2005;331:742 (Published 29 September 2005)

Impact on child mortality of removing user fees: simulation model

BMJ 2005;331:747 (Published 29 September 2005)

Primary care

Effect of educational outreach to nurses on tuberculosis case detection and primary care of respiratory illness: pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2005;331:750 (Published 29 September 2005)

Education and debate

Confronting Africa's health crisis: more of the same will not be enough

BMJ 2005;331:755 (Published 29 September 2005)

Health systems financing: putting together the “back office”

BMJ 2005;331:759 (Published 29 September 2005)

Removing user fees for primary care in Africa: the need for careful action

BMJ 2005;331:762 (Published 29 September 2005)

System and market failures: the unavailability of magnesium sulphate for the treatment of eclampsia and pre-eclampsia in Mozambique and Zimbabwe

BMJ 2005;331:765 (Published 29 September 2005)

Gaining a foothold: tackling poverty, gender inequality, and HIV in Africa

BMJ 2005;331:769 (Published 29 September 2005)

Patients' readiness to start highly active antiretroviral treatment for HIV

BMJ 2005;331:772 (Published 29 September 2005)

Achieving food security in vulnerable populations

BMJ 2005;331:775 (Published 29 September 2005)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

A different picture of Africa

BMJ 2005;331:782 (Published 29 September 2005)

Africa Live

BMJ 2005;331:783.1 (Published 29 September 2005)

As They See It: The Development of the African AIDS Discourse

BMJ 2005;331:783.2 (Published 29 September 2005)

Africa does not need aid, but the opportunity for fair trade

BMJ 2005;331:784.1 (Published 29 September 2005)

Hit parade

BMJ 2005;331:784.2 (Published 29 September 2005)

Western and traditional African medicine—working together on AIDS

BMJ 2005;331:785.1 (Published 29 September 2005)

Out of Africa

BMJ 2005;331:785.2 (Published 29 September 2005)