PAHO has just launched a quick way for its readers to go straight to the source of what they are looking for in electronic format. They can now access one or more chapters of the organisation's most popular publications, such as Health in the Americas and Control of Communicable Diseases (Spanish version), among others, in a minimum of keystrokes. With this new service, readers can select only those chapters on the diseases that most interest them or select the chapter on a country for which they need the latest mortality or morbidity data.
Useful Resources
Population and Related Information Online
POPLINE®(POPulation information onLINE) provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature on population, family planning, and related health issues. The world's largest bibliographic population database, POPLINE® brings together 300,000 records representing published and unpublished literature in the field.
SHARED - Useful information on health research
SHARED started in 1996 as an EC concerted action. SHARED's objective is to share essential information on health research and development for developing countries. Everyone can contribute information to the database. A network of Focal Points has a proactive role in information dissemination on a local level. Visit their web site for more information.
We Miss You All
Noerine Kaleeba
Veteran Ugandan AIDS activist Noerine Kaleeba is an angry woman. Anger propelled her into the frontline of HIV/AIDS activism in her country after her husband's death from HIV/AIDS. Sixteen years later Kaleeba is still angry, but her anger is now directed at the stigma and discrimination surrounding the disease. Kaleeba was speaking during the launch of the second edition of her acclaimed book 'We Miss You All' in Johannesburg. The book tells the story of her husband's death from AIDS, and how this led her to form The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO). It also relates how her family coped with the pain and stigma that the disease brought into their lives.
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Weekly e-mail on Southern African health issues
The HealthLink Bulletin is a free weekly electronic news bulletin of interest to health workers, policy makers, journalists, researchers, donor organisations, medical insurance and pharmaceutical companies, civil society organisations and consultants. Information covered includes notice of new research findings, publications, conferences, events, news, job opportunities, resources (electronic and other), courses and news items relevant to health systems development, policy and practice in Southern Africa.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29645
A TRAINING MANUAL ON EFFECTIVE WRITING AVAILABLE ONLINE
A major training resource designed to help those working in the not-for-profit sector hone their writing skills in order to influence, persuade and bring about positive social change has been made available free of charge on the internet, thanks to the support of IDRC. “The CDROM version has been so popular,” said Firoze Manji, Director of Fahamu, “IDRC and Fahamu decided to make the resource available in the public domain as well.” Writing for Change, originally published as an interactive CDROM by Fahamu and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), is designed primarily for people working in the not-for-profit sector, including researchers, scientists, project managers, team members, campaigners, fundraisers, social activists and writers. Available in English, French and Spanish from Fahamu's web site (http://www.fahamu.org) the resource is thought to be one of the most comprehensive available, running at about 900 pages per language.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29537
Gender Equity in Health Advocacy Pack
As part of its Advocacy Pack series, the Women, Health and Development Program announces its new Gender Equity in Health Advocacy Pack! The kit consists of a fact sheet, an issue paper and a PowerPoint presentation, which present the ethical and empirical underpinnings of the effort to incorporate the gender perspective in health policies and programs. This objective emphasizes the identification and resolution of gender inequities which impede the exercise of women and men's fundamental right to health.
Health Policy and Planning: Volume 17, Suppl. 1 : December 2002
Supplement: Health sector reform and equity - learning from evidence?
This supplement includes:
* Health sector reform and equity – learning from evidence? Health Policy Plan. 2002 17: 1-4.
* D McIntyre, D Muirhead, and L Gilson Geographic patterns of deprivation in South Africa: informing health equity analyses and public resource allocation strategies Health Policy Plan. 2002 17: 30-39.
* Nzapfurundi Chabikuli, Helen Schneider, Duane Blaauw, Anthony B Zwi, and Ruairí Brugha Quality and equity of private sector care for sexually transmitted diseases in South Africa Health Policy Plan. 2002 17: 40-46.
Join ProNutrition-HIV - new electronic forum
ProNut-HIV, a new electronic forum, aims to share up-to-date information, knowledge and experiences on nutrition and HIV/AIDS.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29567
Observatory on Health Care
WHO's non-communicable diseases and mental health cluster has launched a resource centre to "alert health leaders" about global increases in chronic conditions such as diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and mental and neurological disorders, and to provide solutions for managing the growing burden.