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IJE Advance Access originally published online on February 7, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(2):233-236; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl015
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2006; all rights reserved.

Cochrane Column

Cochrane Column

Taryn Young

South African Cochrane Centre, Medical Research Council, PO Box 19070, Tygerberg 7505, South Africa. E-mail: taryn.young@mrc.ac.za

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The aim of the Column is to highlight Cochrane systematic reviews of relevance to public health and to stimulate debate on relevance, feasibility, and acceptability. The HIV/AIDS pandemic is affecting all spheres of healthcare. In this issue we discuss the effectiveness of mass media interventions for promoting HIV testing.


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The Cochrane Collaboration (http://www.cochrane.org) is an international, non-profit organization that prepares and disseminates up-to-date systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare interventions in order to help people make well-informed decisions. Systematic reviews aim to answer focused healthcare questions by systematically identifying and evaluating all relevant research studies and synthesizing their results.

If you are interested in contributing to the Cochrane Column or The Cochrane Collaboration, contact me at the South African Cochrane Centre.

A summary of Cochrane reviews (and protocols) of relevance to health promotion and public health can be viewed on the Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health . . . [Full Text of this Article]

J Vidanapathirana1,*, MJ Abramson2, A Forbes2 and C Fairley3

1 National HIV/AIDS Prevention Project, Sri Lanka
2 Central & Eastern Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
3 Melbourne Sexual Health Center, Melbourne, Australia

* Corresponding author. Consultant Community Physician, National HIV/AIDS Prevention Project, No 29, De Saram Place Colombo 10, Sri Lanka. E-mail: kavigaya@yahoo.com

Don Operario

Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, 32 Wellington Square, OX12ER, UK.

Nicole Crepaz

Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA


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