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CONTENTS Editorial Towards sustainable access to safe drinking water in South-East Asia............................................1 Perspective Family Planning – friendly Health facility Initiative to promote contraceptive utilization..............3 Moazzam Ali, Vinit Sharma, Arvind Mathur, Marleen Temmerman Review A review of the Sri Lankan health-sector response to intimate partner violence: looking back, moving forward......................................................................................................6 Sepali Guruge, Vathsala Jayasuriya-Illesinghe, Nalika Gunawardena National nursing and midwifery legislation in countries of South-East Asia with high HIV burdens.......................................................................................12 Nila K Elison, Andre R Verani, Carey McCarthy Mosquito-borne diseases in Assam, north-east India: current status and key challenges..............20 V Dev, VP Sharma, K Barman Original research Association between household air pollution and neonatal mortality: an analysis of Annual Health Survey results, India........................................................................................................30 Sutapa Bandyopadhyay Neogi, Shivam Pandey, Jyoti Sharma, Maulik Chokshi, Monika Chauhan, Sanjay Zodpey, Vinod K Paul The validity of self-reported helmet use among motorcyclists in India........................................38 Shirin Wadhwaniya, Shivam Gupta, Shailaja Tetali, Lakshmi K Josyula, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Adnan A Hyder A cross-sectional study of exposure to mercury in schoolchildren living near the eastern seaboard industrial estate of Thailand...............................................................45 Punthip Teeyapant, Siriwan Leudang, Sittiporn Parnmen Inequality in maternal health-care services and safe delivery in eastern India.............................54 Arabinda Ghosh Prevalence of household drinking-water contamination and of acute diarrhoeal illness in a periurban community in Myanmar............................................................................62 Su Latt Tun Myint, Thuzar Myint, Wah Wah Aung, Khin Thet Wai Innovative social protection mechanism for alleviating catastrophic expenses on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Chhattisgarh, India..............................................69 Debashish Kundu, Vijendra Katre, Kamalpreet Singh, Madhav Deshpande, Priyakanta Nayak, Kshitij Khaparde, Arindam Moitra, Sreenivas A Nair, Malik Parmar A cross-sectional survey of the models in Bihar and Tamil Nadu, India for pooled procurement of medicines.........................................................................................78 Maulik Chokshi, Habib Hasan Farooqui, Sakthivel Selvaraj, Preeti Kumar Policy and practice Barriers and facilitators to development of standard treatment guidelines in India.......................86 Sangeeta Sharma, Gulshan R Sethi, Usha Gupta, Ranjit Roy Chaudhury Demand–supply gaps in human resources to combat vector-borne disease in India: capacity-building measures in medical entomology....................................................................92 Anuja Pandey, Sanjay Zodpey, Raj Kumar Report from the field Challenges in conducting community-based trials of primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases in resource-constrained rural settings.....................................................98 Twinkle Agrawal, Farah Naaz Fathima, Shailendra Kumar B Hegde, Rajnish Joshi, Nallasamy Srinivasan, Dominic Misquith Recent WHO Publications.....................................................................................104

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