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CONTENTS 

Editorial
♦ Does Inform'ACTION  fulfil its mission? - Christelle Lepers

Surveillance & Response
♦ Dengue fever situation in the Pacific Islands countries and territories, 30 September 2008 - Christelle Lepers...(3) 
♦ Provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling in TB clinics in the Pacific - Axel Wiegandt...(6)
♦ Progress of the lab-based influenza surveillance project - Albert Gurusamy...(12)
♦ Report on 18 months of biological surveillance of influenza in Wallis and Futuna - Jean-François Yvon...(14)

Infection Control
♦ Improvements in infection control at Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Fiji - Miriama Vakaloloma...(16) 
♦ Building infection control capacities in the Pacific Islands – Feedback from Vanuatu, Nauru and Kiribati - Margaret Leong, Christelle Lepers, Leias Obed, Gano Mwareow and Helen Murdoch...(18)

Meetings & Training
♦ Recommendations from the 14th meeting of the PPHSN Coordinating Body...(23) 
♦ 4th PIPS Workshop summary report - Wang Xiaojun...(29)
♦ Second Pacific WHO Global salmonella surveillance training course in Papua New Guinea - James Wangi, Christelle Lepers...(31)

In brief
♦ New WHO staff...(34) 
♦ New library for Yap State Hospital...(34) 
♦ New SPC staff...(36)