BMJ was first published in 1840 and is the foremost, peer-reviewed general medical journal in the world, read by over 330,000 doctors and other health professionals around the globe every week.
BMJ West Africa edition is a local edition of the parent BMJ. It contains selected articles appropriate to local practice and need in West Africa and caries local news, views, editorials, and commentaries. In time, it will provide a forum for debate and discussion on health issues in West Africa with the opportunity of dissemination to other local editions of The BMJ around the world.
Basically, BMJ West Africa edition provides the best writing from the rest of the world to West African doctors, health scholars, other health professionals and health policy makers at an affordable local price, AND it stimulates writing from West Africa for International consumption.
BMJ West Africa co-exists with established local publications working in tandem to rejuvenate the tradition of Health writing and reading.
The Journals
