This week's This week in the BMJ

	Background conditions explain the rapid progression of HIV in rural Africa [Full text] FREE

	Magnetic resonance angiography can select patients for endarterectomy [Full text] FREE

	Fusidic acid cream is an effective treatment for impetigo [Full text] FREE

	Surgical advances prevent deaths in older heart bypass patients [Full text] FREE

	HIV prevention strategies lack resources and international commitment [Full text] FREE

	Developing an HIV vaccine is within reach [Full text] FREE

	Mother to child transmission of HIV is still a huge problem [Full text] FREE

	Drug companies should make HIV drugs free to poor countries [Full text] FREE

	Traditional birth attendants could help prevent perinatal HIV transmission [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	AIDS and global justice
	Gavin Yamey, William W Rankin
	BMJ  2002;324:181-182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.181 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Can India avoid being devastated by HIV?
	S Ramasundaram
	BMJ  2002;324:182-183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.182 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How men's power over women fuels the HIV epidemic
	Geeta Rao Gupta
	BMJ  2002;324:183-184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.183 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Governments as facilitators or obstacles in the HIV epidemic
	Arthur J Ammann, Susie Nogueira
	BMJ  2002;324:184-185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.184 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mass orphanhood in the era of HIV/AIDS
	Neddy Rita Matshalaga, Greg Powell
	BMJ  2002;324:185-186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.185 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Doctors in Guantanamo Bay are at risk of being accessories to torture
	Tom Marshall
	BMJ  2002;324:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.235 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Non-sexual transmission of HIV has been overlooked in developing countries
	David Gisselquist, Richard Rothenberg, John Potterat, Ernest Drucker
	BMJ  2002;324:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.235a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: References] FREE

	Adequate quality of HIV drugs must be ensured
	Subhash C Arya
	BMJ  2002;324:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.235b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Therapeutic consultation centres are helpful in developing countries
	Albert Figueras, Joan-Ramon Laporte
	BMJ  2002;324:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.236 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Animal studies and HIV research
	Ray Greek, Pandora Pound, Nancy L Haigwood
	BMJ  2002;324:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.236a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	President Mbeki might have a case on rethinking AIDS
	Stuart W Dwyer
	BMJ  2002;324:237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.237 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Trends in sex differences in mortality from heart disease
	D A Lawlor, S Ebrahim, G Davey Smith, Tessa M Pollard, Colin Fischbacher, Nigel Unwin
	BMJ  2002;324:237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.237a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diet-heart disease hypothesis is wishful thinking
	Uffe Ravnskov
	BMJ  2002;324:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.238 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Does the internet harm health?
	Robert Kiley, Gunther Eysenbach, Christian Köhler
	BMJ  2002;324:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.238a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Quinacrine in possible or probable CJD
	David Braunholtz, Judith Harris, Ed Cooper
	BMJ  2002;324:239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.239 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	WMA should not retreat on use of placebos
	Martin Bland
	BMJ  2002;324:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.240 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Authorised clinical staff need access to clinical information
	David Hutchon
	BMJ  2002;324:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.240a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Surveillance for S aureus bacteraemias is compulsory
	Georgia Duckworth, Barry Cookson, Andrew Pearson, Natasha Crowcroft
	BMJ  2002;324:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.240b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Latest abolition of limited registration is insulting
	Peter von Kaehne
	BMJ  2002;324:241, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.241 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctors' bad press depends on type of newspaper
	Christopher Peters
	BMJ  2002;324:241, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.241a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A "waiting for investigation" index would be useful
	Vanessa Pope, P A Sykes
	BMJ  2002;324:241, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.241b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Prisoners' treatment is "bordering on torture," charity says
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.187 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	US "boutique medicine" could threaten care for the majority
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;324:187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.187a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;324:188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.188 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Drug company fined £2.2m for abusing its dominant position
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.188a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	High risk infants in Florida to be screened for type 1 diabetes
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;324:188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.188b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Performance of individual surgeons to be published
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2002;324:189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.189 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Doctor reprimanded for giving antiretroviral drug to baby who was raped
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2002;324:191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.191b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Fighting inequalities in AIDS treatment
	BMJ  2002;324:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.192 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	NHS Direct underused by ethnic minorities
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2002;324:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.190 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	UK judges reverse decision on cloned embryos
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.190a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	WHO to revise its method for ranking health systems
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  2002;324:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.190b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Scotland produces plan to tackle binge drinking
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2002;324:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.190c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Advert criticising tobacco product placement is censored
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2002;324:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.190d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Tobacco companies say regulations are unconstitutional
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2002;324:191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.191 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	NICE may fail to stop "postcode prescribing," MPs told
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2002;324:191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.191a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Argentina running out of medical supplies
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2002;324:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.192a [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Surgeon wins court of appeal battle four years after dismissal
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.192b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Obesity causes 30 000 deaths a year, report says
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2002;324:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.192c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Journals demand that authors declare their independence of sponsors
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;324:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.192d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Berlin hospital stripped of university status
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2002;324:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.192e [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Progression to symptomatic disease in people infected with HIV-1 in rural Uganda: prospective cohort study • Commentary: Virus, host, or environment?
	Dilys Morgan, Cedric Mahe, Billy Mayanja, James A G Whitworth, Peter H Kilmarx
	BMJ  2002;324:193-197, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.193 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of magnetic resonance angiography to select candidates with recently symptomatic carotid stenosis for surgery: systematic review
	Marie E Westwood, Steven Kelly, Elizabeth Berry, John M Bamford, Michael J Gough, C Mark Airey, James F M Meaney, Linda M Davies, Jane Cullingworth, Michael A Smith
	BMJ  2002;324:198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.198 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Time trends in survival and readmission following coronary artery bypass grafting in Scotland, 1981-96: retrospective observational study
	J P Pell, K MacIntyre, D Walsh, S Capewell, J J V McMurray, J W T Chalmers, J H Boyd, A R Finlayson, S Stewart, A D Redpath
	BMJ  2002;324:201-202, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.201 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: More data] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Fusidic acid cream in the treatment of impetigo in general practice: double blind randomised placebo controlled trial
	Sander Koning, Lisette W A van Suijlekom-Smit, Jan L Nouwen, Cees M Verduin, Roos M D Bernsen, Arnold P Oranje, Siep Thomas, Johannes C van der Wouden
	BMJ  2002;324:203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.203 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Regular review: Reducing heterosexual transmission of HIV in poor countries
	Peter R Lamptey
	BMJ  2002;324:207-211, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.207 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional figures] FREE

	Science, medicine, and the future: The search for an HIV vaccine
	Malegapuru William Makgoba, Nandipha Solomon, Timothy Johan Paul Tucker
	BMJ  2002;324:211-213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.211 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	No more bed blocking
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2002;324:247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.247a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The Focus on Women Kampala Declaration: Ugandan women call for action on HIV/AIDS
	Faith Spicer Akiki
	BMJ  2002;324:247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.247 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	"We all have AIDS": case for reducing the cost of HIV drugs to zero • Commentary: The reality of treating HIV and AIDS in poor countries • Commentary: Most South Africans cannot afford anti-HIV drugs
	Donald Berwick, Richard Sykes, Zackie Achmat
	BMJ  2002;324:214-218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.214 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What can we do to reduce mother to child transmission of HIV?
	James McIntyre, Glenda Gray
	BMJ  2002;324:218-221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.218 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Role of traditional birth attendants in preventing perinatal transmission of HIV • Commentary: Involving traditional birth attendants in prevention of HIV transmission needs careful consideration
	Marc Bulterys, Mary Glenn Fowler, Nathan Shaffer, Pius M Tih, Alan E Greenberg, Etienne Karita, Hoosen Coovadia, Kevin M De Cock, Gijs Walraven
	BMJ  2002;324:222-225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.222 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	First trial of the HIV-1 vaccine in Africa: Ugandan experience
	Roy D Mugerwa, Pontiano Kaleebu, Peter Mugyenyi, Edward Katongole-Mbidde, David L Hom, Rose Byaruhanga, Robert A Salata, Jerrold J Ellner
	BMJ  2002;324:226-229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.226 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further information] FREE

	How can HIV be prevented in South Africa? A social perspective
	Catherine Campbell, Yodwa Mzaidume
	BMJ  2002;324:229-232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.229 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The impact of HIV and AIDS on Africa's economic development
	Simon Dixon, Scott McDonald, Jennifer Roberts
	BMJ  2002;324:232-234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.232 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Helen Rodriguez-Trias
	Laura Newman
	BMJ  2002;324:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.242 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Geoffrey Leon Bolt
	H Bolt, M J Brindle, E M E Laidlaw
	BMJ  2002;324:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.242a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Richard Waywell Burslem
	Max Elstein, J B Jones, R H Martin
	BMJ  2002;324:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.242b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Eric Milligan Callander
	Joan Clark
	BMJ  2002;324:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.242c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Granville Freeman
	John Cherry
	BMJ  2002;324:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.242d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Margaret Hunter McDiarmid
	Donald Doull
	BMJ  2002;324:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.242e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Vulimiri Ramalingaswami
	I Mittra
	BMJ  2002;324:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.242f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Gordon David Rees
	Will K Pallister
	BMJ  2002;324:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.242g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Isaac Sutton
	Clive Sutton
	BMJ  2002;324:242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.242h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;324:248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.248 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Is the lady doctor a failure?
	BMJ  2002;324:201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.201a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: The danger of health books
	BMJ  2002;324:201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.201b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: Letter to Georgiana Morpeth, 16 February 1820
	BMJ  2002;324:201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.201c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable study day: Rehumanise yourself
	John Milton
	BMJ  2002;324:206, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.206 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable teacher: Care with case notes
	Hugh Saxton
	BMJ  2002;324:225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.225 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: A form of stupidity
	BMJ  2002;324:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.232a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

TV

This week's TV

	TV: The Trust
	Hilary Scott
	BMJ  2002;324:244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.244 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis
	Susan King
	BMJ  2002;324:245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.245 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Timebomb: The Global Epidemic of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
	David Mitchell
	BMJ  2002;324:245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.245a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	What did you do in the war against AIDS, granddad?
	BMJ  2002;324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.0i [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: AIDS in the digital age
	Lisa Garbus, Laurence Peiperl, Manju Chatani
	BMJ  2002;324:246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7331.246 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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