The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) for 9 December 2011, vol. 86, 50 (pp 565–580) includes: Validation of elimination: maternal and neonatal tetanus – Uganda, 2011; Performance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance and incidence of poliomyelitis, 2011; Monthly report on dracunculiasis cases, January–October 2011