The Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO) website is designed for reproductive health program managers and decision-makers working in developing countries and low-resource settings. RHO provides up-to-date summaries of research findings, program experience, and clinical guidelines related to key reproductive health topics.
Useful Resources
Multisectoral Responses to HIV/AIDS: A Compendium of Promising Practices from Africa
This document brings together promising practices identified by the USAID-Private Voluntary Organisation community. This includes many ideas and experiences of different organisations that seem likely to combat HIV/AIDS successfully. Several of these practices are new and as such, do not yet have hard evidence to show that they work. However, rather than wait for documented success, they are published here to share all the practices available to spur ideas and action. This compendium is aimed at any person or program interested in mitigating the spread of HIV/AIDS, though the emphasis is on those in Africa seeking new ways to act.
The Push Journal
THE PUSH JOURNAL is an objective, free full-text online clipping service. It's a great tool for journalists covering issues related to AIDS/HIV, reproductive health, issues relating to women and girls, global population or refugee issues and the environmental, medical and family issues which surround them. If you work with slow or unpredictable Internet connections, you can choose to receive the full-text news stories in an easy-download text version. Each day's edition of PUSH JOURNAL carries story headlines at the top and complete versions of each story below. PUSH adds no text or commentary.
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.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29882
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.