Editor’s choice

Quality and hygiene in health service provision, water and food Welcome to our first issue among a series of four issues, African
Health Scienceswill be publishing this year. As a result of your overwhelming support and contributions African Health Scienceswill, from March 2005, be publishing four instead of three issues per annum. We wish to thank all our authors, readers, board members, international consultants, editors and others who have contributed to the success of our journal. May the year 2005 be a special year of exceeding quality in all that you do.

The current issue of African Health Scienceslays emphasis on water quality and hygiene, in addition to sexuality, reproductive health, pharmacology, surgery and others. We have lined up an exciting menu of nine original articles with a prelude editorial, on health and hygiene, by Astier M. Almedon who is an Eritrean professor of science and humanitarianism at Tufts University, Boston, USA