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Useful Resources
The Supply Initiative Newsletter
The Supply Initiative: meeting the need for reproductive health supplies, has a new monthly newsletter that provides updates on the Supply Initiative activities, as well as news, materials and events related to condom and contraceptive shortages.
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useful health links
For a selective list of HIV/AIDS websites for health professionals, libraries and publishers in developing countries, please visit the HIV/AIDS section of INASP Health Links: http://www.inasp.info/health/links/ INASP Health Links is an internet gateway to more than 500 selected websites, including more than 100 HIV/AIDS sites.
Using Data to Improve Service Delivery: A Self-Evaluation Approach
The Support for Analysis and Research in Africa Project (SARA) is a user-friendly guide that has been designed to help healthcare workers use data collected at their health facility to solve common problems in service delivery and improve their response to community needs. It is intended for doctors, nurses, and midwives in both community health centres and rehabilitated district health centres.
Developing Countries Journal Offer
Oxford University Press has set up a program wherein scholars from developing nations are eligible for free or greatly discounted electronic access to a large number of professional journals.
HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice #7, 12 June 2003
'HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice' is an email newsletter for doctors, nurses, health care workers and community treatment advocates working in limited-resource settings. The newsletter is published twice every month by NAM, the UK-based HIV information charity behind www.aidsmap.com.
OECD/WHO - Poverty and health guidelines
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and WHO have recently jointly published Poverty and Health in the Development Assistance Committee - DAC Guidelines and Reference Series. This DAC Reference Document dedicated to health and poverty in developing countries expands on the DAC Guidelines on Poverty Reduction and provides a set of policy recommendations to a broad range of development agency staff working on policy and operations. It provides a framework for action within the health system, and beyond it, through policies in other sectors and through global initiatives.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29832
Survey of thirty key medicines relevant to global disease burden in developing countries
In developing countries, most medicines are paid out-of-pocket by individual patients rather than being subsidised through social insurance. High prices are a major barrier to the use of medicines and better health, yet too little is known about the prices that people pay for medicines in low- and middle-income countries. This manual and the accompanying workbook and database, produced by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Health Action International (HAI), provide a new approach to measuring the prices of medicines. The survey is focused on thirty key medicines covering the spectrum of the global disease burden, particularly as it falls on low- and middle-income countries. This manual results from the widely-felt need for greater transparency on prices in the global medicines marketplace.
Synergy Project: HIV/AIDS Programming Toolkit Website and CD-ROM
The Synergy APDIME Toolkit is a resource to support programme designers and managers in HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programming in the developing world. It is a window through which you can learn about programme outcomes, training guides and research findings. Tools include worksheets, budget templates, survey instruments, data and software produced by HIV/AIDS organisations from around the world. It was developed in collaboration with the University of Washington and contains five modules covering Assessment, Planning, Design, Implementation Monitoring, and Evaluation. Each module outlines a comprehensive step-by-step method and weblinks to hundreds of resources for programming.
The Supply Challenge
Throughout the world, reproductive health programmes are facing a growing crisis as a result of a lack of supplies which are essential for HIV/AIDS prevention, family planning, contraception and other vital sexual and reproductive health care services. This threatens the lives and rights of millions of men, women and children. The Supply Initiative has been set up to call attention to this crisis as well as to increase the availability and efficient use of human, institutional and financial resources for reproductive health supplies. The Supply Initiative web site is online under http://www.rhsupplies.org. Here you will find more details on reproductive health supply shortage and the activities of the Supply Initiative.