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Contents Volume 15, Number 1, March 2000 Prenatal screening in rural Bangladesh: from prediction to care ANNE MARIE VANNESTE, CARINE RONSMANS, JYOTSNAMOY CHAKRABORTY AND ANDRES DE FRANCISCO The quality of risk factor screening during antenatal consultation in Niger A PRUAL, A TOURE. D HUGUET AND Y LAURENT HIV counselling — a luxury or necessity? KARLA MEURSING AND FLORA SIBINDI Experiences of breastfeeding and vulnerability among a group of HIV-positive women in Durban, South Africa GILL SEIDEL, VISHANTIE SEWPAUL AND BABALWA DANO Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in developing countries: recommendations for practice FRANCOIS DABIS, MARIE-LOUISE NEWELL, LIEVE FRANSEN, JOSEPH SABA, PHILIPPE LEPAGE, VALERIANE LEROY, MICHEL CARTOUX., NICOLAS MEDA, DAVID K WHYNES, CATHERINE PECKHAM, RUTH NDUATI, PHILIPPE MSELLATI, ISABELLE DE VINCENZI AND PHILIPPE VAN DE PERRE FOR THE GHENT INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP ON MOTHER-TO-CHILD TRANSMISSION OF HIV The influence of husbands on contraceptive use by Bangladeshi women NASHID KAMAL The World Bank and pharmaceuticals PORKEL FALKENBERG AND GORAN TOMSON User fees and drugs: what did the health reforms in Zambia achieve? SJAAK VAN DER GEEST, MUBIANA MACWAN’GI, JOLLY KAMWANGA, DENNIS MULIKELELA, ARTHUR MAZIMBA AND MUNDIA MWANGELWA Cost recovery in Mauritania: initial lessons MARTINE AUDIBERT AND JACKY MATHONNAT The impact of financing and quality changes on health care demand in Niger MUKESH CHAWLA AND RANDALL P ELLIS Future prospects of voluntary health insurance in Thailand SIRIPEN SUPAKANKUNTI Public and private hospitals in Bangladesh: service quality and predictors of hospital choice SYED SAAD ANDALEEB Historical analysis of the development of health care facilities in Kerala State, India V RAMAN KUTTY A critical review of ‘A critical review’: the methodology of the 1993 World Development Report, ‘Investing in Health’ PHILIP MUSGROVI How to do (or not to do)... Moderating discussions on the web: opportunities, challenges and lessons learned LILANI KUMARANAYAKE AND CHARLOTTE WATTS Book review Contents Volume 15, Number 1, March 2000 Prenatal screening in rural Bangladesh: from prediction to care ANNE MARIE VANNESTE, CARINE RONSMANS, JYOTSNAMOY CHAKRABORTY AND ANDRES DE FRANCISCO The quality of risk factor screening during antenatal consultation in Niger A PRUAL, A TOURE. D HUGUET AND Y LAURENT HIV counselling — a luxury or necessity? KARLA MEURSING AND FLORA SIBINDI Experiences of breastfeeding and vulnerability among a group of HIV-positive women in Durban, South Africa GILL SEIDEL, VISHANTIE SEWPAUL AND BABALWA DANO Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in developing countries: recommendations for practice FRANCOIS DABIS, MARIE-LOUISE NEWELL, LIEVE FRANSEN, JOSEPH SABA, PHILIPPE LEPAGE, VALERIANE LEROY, MICHEL CARTOUX., NICOLAS MEDA, DAVID K WHYNES, CATHERINE PECKHAM, RUTH NDUATI, PHILIPPE MSELLATI, ISABELLE DE VINCENZI AND PHILIPPE VAN DE PERRE FOR THE GHENT INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP ON MOTHER-TO-CHILD TRANSMISSION OF HIV The influence of husbands on contraceptive use by Bangladeshi women NASHID KAMAL The World Bank and pharmaceuticals PORKEL FALKENBERG AND GORAN TOMSON User fees and drugs: what did the health reforms in Zambia achieve? SJAAK VAN DER GEEST, MUBIANA MACWAN’GI, JOLLY KAMWANGA, DENNIS MULIKELELA, ARTHUR MAZIMBA AND MUNDIA MWANGELWA Cost recovery in Mauritania: initial lessons MARTINE AUDIBERT AND JACKY MATHONNAT The impact of financing and quality changes on health care demand in Niger MUKESH CHAWLA AND RANDALL P ELLIS Future prospects of voluntary health insurance in Thailand SIRIPEN SUPAKANKUNTI Public and private hospitals in Bangladesh: service quality and predictors of hospital choice SYED SAAD ANDALEEB Historical analysis of the development of health care facilities in Kerala State, India V RAMAN KUTTY A critical review of ‘A critical review’: the methodology of the 1993 World Development Report, ‘Investing in Health’ PHILIP MUSGROVI How to do (or not to do)... Moderating discussions on the web: opportunities, challenges and lessons learned LILANI KUMARANAYAKE AND CHARLOTTE WATTS Book review Volume 15, Number 2, June 2000 Vaccine procurement and self-sufficiency in developing countries DIAN WOODLE Priority setting for health research: lessons from developing countries THE WORKING GROUP ON PRIORITY SETTING Young people’s health in developing countries: a neglected problem and opportunity ELIZABETH A GOODBURN AND DAVID A ROSS The Nepal National Vitamin A Program: prototype to emulate or donor enclave? JOHN L FIEDLER The Chinese experience of hospital price regulation XINGZHU LIU, YUANLI LIU AND NINGSHAN CHEN Public health in Russia: the view from the inside ELENA TKATCHENKO. MARTIN MCKEE AND AGIS D TSOUROS Information quality in a remote rural maternity unit in Ghana PASCALE A ALLOTEY AND DANIEL REIDPATH Rhetoric or reality? The participation of disabled people in NGO planning JONATHAN FLOWER AND SHEILA WIRZ Attitudes to ‘Kaponya Mafumo’: the terminators of pregnancy in urban Zambia DOUGLAS WEBB Conceptualizing and applying a minimum basic needs approach in southern Philippines TUULA HEINONEN, MARIPER MERCADER, JOSEPHINE L QUIANZON, MAGDALENA PENERA-TORRALBA AND LEO BALUIS Universal health care? The views of Negev Bedouin Arabs on health services JEFFREY M BORKAN, MOHAMMED MORAD AND SHIFRA SHVARTS Research reports Evaluation of blood bank practices in Karachi, Pakistan, and the government's response STEPHEN LUBY, RAFIQUE KHANANI, MALIHA ZIA,. ZULEIKHA VELLANI, MOHSIN ALL ABDUL HALEEM QURESHI AAMIR J KHAN. SYED ABDUL MUJEEB,. SHARAF ALI SHAH AND SUSAN FISHER-HOCH Maternal and child health services in rural Nepal: does access or quality matter more? LAXMI BILAS ACHARYA AND JOHN Ct ELAND How to do (or not to do)... The real and the nominal? Making inflationary adjustments to cost and other economic data LILANI KUMARANAYAKE Letter: International health aid and professional independence: the need for quality standards and self-regulation GILLES DE WILDT, DANIEL CHANDRAMOHAN AND JOOST VAN DER MEER Notes and news Volume 15, Number 3, September 2000 Review article: Stakeholder analysis: a review RUAIRI BRUGHA AND ZSUZSA VARVASOVSZKY How to act — implementing health and safety promotion in organizations MANS ROSEN AND BJARNE JANSSON A planning framework for community empowerment goals within health promotion GLENN LAVERACK AND RONALD LABONTE Health policy-making in central and eastern Europe: lessons from inaction on injuries? MARTIN MCKEE, ANTHONY ZWI, ILONA KOUPILOVA, DINESH SETHI AND DAVID LEON Hospital practices in maternity wards in Lebanon RIYA KHAYAT AND OONA CAMPBELL Improving the monitoring of immunization services in Kyrgyzstan R MARK WEEKS, FIRSOVA SVETLANA, SEITKAZIEVA NOORGOUL AND GAIDAMAKO VALENTINA Financing blood transfusion services in sub-Saharan Africa: a role for user fees? MARTIN HENSHER AND EMMA JEFFREYS The paradox of the cost and affordability of traditional and government health services in Tanzania SUSANNA HAUSMANN MUELA, ADIEL K MUSHI AND JOAN MUELA RIBERA Financing reforms for the Thai health card scheme SUPASIT PANNARUNOTHAL, SAMRIT SRITHAMRONGSAWAT, MANIT KONGPAN AND PATCHANEE THUMVANNA From State to market: the Nicaraguan labour market for health personnel GUSTAVO NIGENDA AND MARIA HELENA MACHADO Health sector reform and human resources: lessons from the United Kingdom JAMES BUCHAN Research reports The impact of traditional birth attendant training on delivery complications in Ghana JASON B SMITH, NII A COLEMAN, JUDITH A FORTNEY, JOSEPH DE-GRAFT JOHNSON, DAN W BLUMHAGEN AND THOMAS W GREY A participatory approach to sanitation: experience of Bangladeshi NGOs ABDULLAHEL HADI How to do (or not to do)... A stakeholder analysis ZSUZSA VARVASOVSZKY AND RUAIRI BRUGHA Notes and news Volume 15, Number 4, December 2000 Part issue: Health Sector Regulation Editorial: Health sector regulation — understanding the range of responses from Government NEIL SODERLUND AND VIROJ TANGCHAROENSATHIEN Comparing the services and quality of private and public clinics in rural China QINGYUE MENG, XINGZHU LIU AND JUNSHI SHI How do countries regulate the health sector? Evidence from Tanzania and Zimbabwe LILANI KUMARANAYAKE, SALLY LAKE, PHARE MUJINJA, CHARLES HONGORO AND ROSE MPEMBENI Do they work? Regulating for-profit providers in Zimbabwe CHARLES HONGORO AND LILANI KUMARANAYAKE Health insurance in South Africa: an empirical analysis of trends in risk-pooling and efficiency following deregulation NEIL SODERLUND AND BIRGIT HANSL Other papers Review article: Training initiatives for essential obstetric care in developing countries: a ‘state of the art’ review SHEREEN PENNY AND SUSAN F MURRAY Training traditional birth attendants in clean delivery does not prevent postpartum infection ELIZABETH A GOODBURN, MUSHTAQUE CHOWDHURY, RUKHSANA GAZI, TOM MARSHALL AND WENDY GRAHAM Improving private practitioner care of sick children: testing new approaches in rural Bihar SARBANI CHAKRABORTY. SISTER ANN D’'SOUZA AND ROBERT S NORTHRUP The cost of integrating hepatitis B virus vaccine into national immunization programmes: a case study from Addis Ababa WJ EDMUNDS. A DEJENE,. Y MEKONNEN, M HAILE. W ALEMNU AND DJ NOKES Reforming health insurance in Argentina and Chile ARMANDO BARRIENTOS AND PETER LLOYD-SHERLOCK Barriers to implementing South Africa’s Termination of Pregnancy Act in rural KwaZulu/Natal ABIGAIL HARRISON. ELIZABETH T MONTGOMERY, MARK LURIE AND DAVID WILKINSON The costs of HIV/AIDS care at government hospitals in Zimbabwe KRISTIAN HANSEN, GLYN CHAPMAN. INAM CHITSIKE, OSSY KASILO AND GABRIEL MWALUKO Research report Surveillance of STD syndromes: contributing to the STD programme in Céte d'Ivoire GUY LA RUCHE, JOEL LADNER, ROSE LATTIER, DJOKOUEHI DJEHA, DJOUSSOU LOUISE AND ISSA-MALICK COULIBALY Notes and news