The Lancet
Mar 14, 2015 Volume 385 Number 9972 p915-1044 e21-e22
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Editorial
The future of health in Nigeria
The Lancet
Summary
In a letter in today’s issue, Seye Abimbola and colleagues highlight the health effects of the 6 year Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. The militant group now controls three states in the northeast of the country. Maternal and child mortality are worse in these states than in the rest of Nigeria, there are fears about undetected polio cases, and more than 980 000 people are internally displaced. Conditions are dire for the internally displaced population who live in informal and formal camps with minimum access to health care and other basic needs, such as food and clean water.

Special Report
Syrian crisis: health experts say more can be done
Sophie Cousins
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60515-3
As the Syrian conflict enters its fifth year this month, doctors and public health experts highlight the major health problems and the actions needed to address them. Sophie Cousins reports.

Global trends and projections for tobacco use, 1990–2025: an analysis of smoking indicators from the WHO Comprehensive Information Systems for Tobacco Control
Ver Bilano, Stuart Gilmour, Trevor Moffiet, Edouard Tursan d’Espaignet, Gretchen A Stevens, Alison Commar, Frank Tuyl, Irene Hudson, Kenji Shibuya

Global surveillance of cancer survival 1995–2009: analysis of individual data for 25 676 887 patients from 279 population-based registries in 67 countries (CONCORD-2)
Claudia Allemani, Hannah K Weir, Helena Carreira, Rhea Harewood, Devon Spika, Xiao-Si Wang, Finian Bannon, Jane V Ahn, Christopher J Johnson, Audrey Bonaventure, Rafael Marcos-Gragera, Charles Stiller, Gulnar Azevedo e Silva, Wan-Qing Chen, Olufemi J Ogunbiyi, Bernard Rachet, Matthew J Soeberg, Hui You, Tomohiro Matsuda, Magdalena Bielska-Lasota, Hans Storm, Thomas C Tucker, Michel P Coleman, the CONCORD Working Group
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