Contact magazine

Contact, a publication of the World Council of Churches, is being published by key partners from different regions of the world.

The following issues are available online:

• No. 187 January - May 2009: Essential medicines in primary health care (1.35 MB)
• No. 186 November 2008: Food Price Crisis: What does it mean? What can we do about it? (1.7 MB)
• No. 185 October - December 2007: HIV and AIDS treatment: Faith-based organizations (FBOs) get involved (811 KB)
• No. 184 May 2007: Human trafficking (7 MB)
• No. 183 October-December 2006: Promoting rational use of medicines (787 KB)
• No. 182 August 2006: HIV PREVENTION: Current issues and new technologies (2.5 MB)
• No. 181 October-December 2005: Making access to essential medicines possible (352 KB)
• No. 180 December 2005: People's health assembly (1.4 MB)
• No. 180 Diciembre 2005: II Asamblea mundial de la salud de los pueblos (1.4 MB)
• No. 179 January 2005: Special issue on children (2.9 MB)
• No. 177-178 January 2004: HIV&Aids and malaria (1.2 MB)
• No. 176 January-March 2002: People's Health Movement (2.2 MB)
• No. 175 October-December 2001: "Community-based rehabilitation" (1.1 MB)
• No. 174 July-September 2001: "Community-based health insurance" (1.5 MB)
• No. 173 April-June 2001: "Combatting diseases of poverty":
  • cover (253 KB)
  • pp.2-6 (782 KB)
  • pp.6-10 (278 KB)
  • pp.11-15 (513 KB)
  • pp.16-20 (209 KB)
  • pp.21-28 (590 KB)
• No. 172 January-March 2001: "Health for all" (1.4 MB)
• No. 171 October-December 2000: "Unequal access to effective treatment":

  • pp.1-6 (648 KB)

  • pp.7-13 (590 KB)

  • pp.14-19 (299 KB)

  • pp.20-24 (146 KB)

• No. 170 July-September 2000: "Faith and healing":
  • pp. 1-4 (275 KB)
  • pp. 5-8 (336 KB)
  • pp. 9-12 (266 KB)
  • pp. 13-16 (363 KB)
  • pp. 17-20 (96 KB)
• No. 169 April-June 2000: "Lifestyles and health" (1.5 MB)

• No. 168 January-March 2000: "Tobacco. A global problem requires a global response." (2.5 MB)

• No. 167 October-December 1999: "Health and Healing in Times of Violence: Restoring broken bodies, minds and relationships (2.5 MB)
• No. 166 July-September 1999: "Reforming health in China: Strengthening the weak? (1.9 MB)
• No. 165 April-June 1999: "Facing Death - Discovering Life! Can we strengthen our response?" :
  • pages 1-10 (900 KB)
  • pages11-24 (569 KB)
• No. 164 January-March 1999: "A Jubilee Assembly. An Agenda for Healing":
  • pages 1-10 (1 MB)
  • pages 11-24 (745 KB)
• No. 163 October-December 1998: "Trade or Health?" (637 KB)
• No. 161-162, August-September 1998: The CMC story - the story of the Christian Medical Commission, was the last, double issue of the CMC's bi-monthly newsletter CONTACT to be published in Geneva:
  
  • the cover (22 KB)
  • pages 2-18 (1 MB)
  • pages 19-31 (900 KB)
  • pages 32-57 (1.4 MB)