Visceral leishmaniasis control in Thi Qar Governorate, Iraq, 2003 K. Jassim, R. Maktoof, H. Ali, B. Bodosan and K. Campbell. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2006, Vol. 12 Supplement 2, pages S230¡V S237.

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Unconditional compensation: reducing the costs of disagreement about compensation for research subjects D. Wikler, N. Sofaer, A. Jafarey, R.P Lei and X. Zhang. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2007, Vol. 13, No. 1, pages 6¡V16. The order of the authors was incorrect and should read: N. Sofaer,1 A. Jafarey,2 R.P Lei,3 X. Zhang4 and D. Wikler5. The author af„±liation should thus read: 1Program in Ethics and Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. 2Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture, Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan. 3Centre for Bioethics and Department of Philosophy, Central China University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. 4Centre for Bioethics, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. 5Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America (Correspondence to D. Wikler:wikler@hsph.harvard.edu).