We Must Work Together to Provide a Better Solution

We must--and we can--do better.

Joining forces to develop weapons against TB: together we must.

New approaches are needed to tackle the current and impending disaster of TB. First, its lethal combination with HIV will continue unless the detection and treatment of both infections improve simultaneously. The double impact of TB and HIV is keeping large numbers of people trapped in poverty and disease which reinforce each other. This phenomenon is not limited to sub-Saharan Africa and other...

Why We Must Provide Better Support for Pakistan's Female Frontline Health Workers

Svea Closser and Rashid Jooma argue that achieving polio eradication and strengthening Pakistan's health system must focus not just on international engagement but also on local partnerships with Lady Health Workers and other ground-level staff. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

With Oral Chemotherapy, We Simply Must Do Better!

PROBLEM: Many health care organizations have focused on improving safety with parenteral chemotherapy but have done less to ensure safe practices with oral chemotherapy. Although oral chemotherapy is associated with ease of administration, an error with an oral agent can be just as deadly as an error with a parenteral formulation. Two years ago Ruth Ann Collins, a 60-year-old woman with a histo...

Mother's milk still best--and we must do better.