Tackling HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and others together.

Prof J Tumwine

I wish to welcome you to this Christmas edition of AfricanbHealth Sciencesin which we bring you diverse issues. Our leadresearch article1gives us a health policy perspective looking at the effectiveness of nevirapine and zidovudine in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV. Scientists from Uganda and the USA compared the perinatal transmission rates of HIV among mothers who had received ARVs and those who had not. Perinatal transmission was 16% in the ARV group compared to 48% in the HIV naïve group. In our accompanying commentary Phillipa Musoke reviews the current issues on