This week in The Lancet:

This week’s editorial discusses the recent announcement that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies will be teaming up to provide US $500 million in funding for global tobacco-control programmes.  As the editorial mentions, of particular interest is the focus on Africa, where smoking rates are comparatively low, which provides a great opportunity for early intervention.

A comment on supervised injection facilities discusses the global struggle to scale-up these initiatives in the face of ideological opposition, despite the growing body of scientific evidence demonstrating their benefits.  

There is a brief report on the Paediatric Randomised to Early versus Deferred Antiretroviral Initiation in Cambodia and Thailand (PREDICT) study in the comments section. 

There is an excellent reportage from Emily Y Y Chan about her experiences in taking part in the relief effort following the Sichuan earthquake in China.

This week’s articles include two studies on arthritis treatments; an investigation into the prophylactic effect of H pylori eradication on the development of metachronous gastric carcinoma after edoscopic resection for early gastric cancer; and, a study which found that influenza vaccination is not associated with a reduced rosk of community-acquired pneumonia during flu season. 

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