| Title | Author(s) | pages |
| Guest
Editorials |
| | Sang Tae Han, Marcus H. Samo, Michael J.
O’Leary | 004-007 |
| Original Papers |
| Naked wire
and naked truths: reproductive health risks faced by teenage girls in
Honiara, Solomon Islands | Fanou Burslem, Orapin Laohapensang, Josephine Sauvarin,
Margaret Young, Ann Larson | 008-015
|
| HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes and practices in the Cook
Islands | Neti Tamarua,
Edwina Tangaroa, Michael J. O’Leary | 016-021 |
| HIV and AIDS knowledge among medical
laboratory technologists in the Pacific | Robert W. L. Siebers, Michael Lynch | 022-025 |
| The concept
of empowerment in a traditional Fijian
context | Glenn
Laverack | 026-029 |
| Animal leptospirosis in the Federated
States of Micronesia | James R. Simms | 030-037 |
| Diurnal sub–periodic Bancroftian
filariasis in Dogura, Papua New Guinea | Peter Sapak, Andrew Valley, Pamela Giurina, Conrad
Maibani | 038-040 |
| The effectiveness of pertussis immunization
during a pertussis outbreak in Choiseul Province, Solomon
Islands | Thomas F.
Wierzba, Christopher Chevalier, Bolton Hebala, Junilyn
Pikacha | 041-046 |
| Sex industries and sexual networking
in Papua New Guinea: public health risks and implications |
Lawrence Hammar | 047-053 |
| Sociocultural
vectors and the evolution of virulence in diarrheal pathogens affecting
Micronesian populations | Vincent P. Diego | 054-066 |
| Case Reports and Short
Communications |
| The prevalence of liver abscess in
Pohnpei State, Micronesia | Johnny Hedson | 067-069 |
| Lepromatous leprosy masquerading as
neurofibromatosis | A Mark
Durand | 070-071 |
| Noncompliance to anti-tuberculosis
medication in Pohnpei, Micronesia | Mayleen Jack Ekiek | 072-073 |
| Prevalence of intestinal helminth
infection in Fiji | Elizabeth Mathai, Serupepeli Goneyali, Isoa
Volavola | 074-075 |
| Prostitution in CNMI: political and
economic aspects of emerging infectious diseases | Seiji Yamada | 076-078 |
| Campylobacter and
Vibrio infections on Guam | Robert L. Haddock | 079-082 |
| Conference Reports
and Papers |
| Voices from the community: a call to
action for Asian and Pacific Island health in the new
millennium | Stevenson
Kuartei | 083-085 |
| Today’s health – tomorrow’s wealth: the
fourth annual PBMA conference, 1998 | Kennedy Remit, Victor Yano | 086-088 |
| The
Convention on the Rights of the Child: first call for Pacific
children | Ezekiel T.
Nukuro | 089-093 |
| The Pacific Regional Consultation on the
Convention on the Rights of the Child: Monitoring and Reporting, August
97 | K.
Chamberlain | 094-095 |
| South West Pacific Malaria Meeting: 14–17
July 1997 | Joan Bryan,
Kevin Palmer | 096-098 |
| The Fourth Pacific Conference of Community
Health in Medical Education: 19 July 1997 | May Okihiro | 099-101 |
| Can the
Pacific get rid of filariasis by the year 2020? A conference
report | Peter
Sapak | 102-104 |
| Review
Papers |
| WHO response to resurgence of tuberculosis:
the DOTS strategy for effective control | Leopold J. Blanc | 105-107 |
| Sudden Infant Death Syndrome:
infection, maternal smoking and ethnic group | C.C. Blackwell, D.M. Weir, A.
Busuttil | 108-118 |
| Measles in Fiji, 1875: thoughts on the
history of emerging infectious diseases | David M. Morens | 119-128 |
| Dengue in the Pacific: an updated
story | Tom Kiedrzynski,
Yvan Souarès, Tony Stewart | 129-136 |
| Cryptosporidiosis: an emerging
microbial threat in the Pacific | Nina Russell, Phil Weinstein, Alistair
Woodward | 137-141 |
| Hepatitis B infection in the
Pacific | Elizabeth Mathai,
Murli Krishna | 142-146 |
| Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis: dealing
with a newly emerging disease | David M. Morens | 147-153 |
| Dengue in French Polynesia : major
features, surveillance, molecular epidemiology and current
situation | Eliane Chungue,
Xavier Deparis, Bernadette Murgue | 154-162 |
| Reprint |
| Ciguatera:
dilemmas in clinical recognition, presentation and
management | John
Pearn | 163-166 |
| Viewpoints and
Perspectives |
| Emerging infectious diseases: the
Pacific at the crossroads | Stephen M. Ostroff | 167-170 |
| The tuberculosis epidemic in the
CNMI | Jon Bruss, Artin
Mahmoudi | 171-175 |
| Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart
disease: a prevention program for the Pacific | Steven B. Auerbach | 176-179 |
| Healthy
Islands: from concept to practice | Jan Ritchie, Arie Rotem, Bronwyn Hine | 180-186 |
| Pacific Health
Institutions |
| Climate, ENSO and health in the
Pacific: research in progress | Nancy Davis Lewis, Michael Hamnett, Usha Prasad, Liem
Tran, Alan Hilton | 187-190 |
| The Field Epidemiology Training Program:
responding to the challenge of current and emerging
infections | Mahomed Patel,
Robert Douglas | 191-194 |
| Field epidemiology and public health
surveillance training: proposals for new methods as part of the
PPHSN | Yvan Souarès, Tom
Kiedrzynski | 195-199 |
| PPHSN and PACNET: the Pacific islands are
now tuned into the 21st century | Yvan Souarès | 200-204 |
| Book Reviews |
| 205-213 |
| Journal
Abstracts |
| 214-217 |
| Obituary: Ngirakebou Dr.
Polloi |
| 218-218 |
| Letters to the
Editor |
| 219-220 |
| PHD
Editor | S A Finau | 224-224 |