This month's issue of the WHO Bulletin 88(6) June 2010:
David Evans and Carissa Etienne discuss some of the main issues in achieving universal health coverage, the theme of WHO’s next world health report. On this topic, Rob Yates explains why low-income countries should offer free services to women and children, while Robert Fryatt, Anne Mills, David McCoy and Nouria Brikci debate the outcomes of the high-level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems: show the way forward, what next? Sheila Leatherman and Christopher Dunford describe the positive effects of linking microfinance with health services. Matthew Jowett and Elizabeth Danielyan discuss current plans to introduce patient user charges in Armenian hospitals.

In an editorial, Jorge Srabstein and Bennett Leventhal call for public health policies to prevent bullying in schools and workplaces.

In the news section, Apiradee Treerutkuarkul reports on the return of a free condom campaign in Thailand; Jane Parry on how cities such as Istanbul and New York are dealing with ageing populations; and Gary Humphreys on the landmark health reform under way in the United States of America.

In an interview, Colin Summerhayes describes how climate change is predicted to affect global health, while research by Pam Groenewald and others show HIV/AIDS is the biggest killer in Cape Town, South Africa. Finally, in a round table discussion, Elizabeth Pisani and Carla AbouZahr call for a complete culture change to enable data sharing for public health, while Toby Green, Alan D Lopez, Jimmy Whitworth, Viroj Tangcharoensathien and others debate this issue.

There is much more on offer in this month's issue.