300+ publications (more than 30.000 pages) of
food, nutrition, food policy and research is available on CD from international organisations supplied by Human Info NGO in Belgium. The costs participation system is designed to maximize redistribution by partner multipliers who purchase 70 up to 900 and redistribute them free.
Useful Resources
Food and Nutrition Library:
Information on CD Roms
Further details: /newsletter/id/28814
Contact: orders@humaninfo.org
Johns Hopkins POPLINE Database Now Available Online
Looking for the latest information on female genital mutilation? Need a journal article on adolescent reproductive health and HIV/AIDS?
Trying to track down an article on population and the environment? The answers to these questions and much more are now just a few mouse clicks away on the new Internet POPLINE database. POPLINE, the world's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related issues, is now available free of charge on the Internet. All 280,000 citations, representing published and unpublished literature, can be accessed for no charge.
Further details: /newsletter/id/28812
Nutrition in Africa:
2 CDs giving 12 training modules on African nutrition
2 CDs on African nutrition are available from Dr Britta Ogle, Dept of Rural Development Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P O Box 7005, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden. The costs are free but there is limited availability so
priority will be given to Africans. The CD Roms can be copied.
Contact: britta.ogle@lbutv.slu.se
PERI: Full Access to Online Journals and Databases in Africa
The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) is pleased to announce the completion of the first phase of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI). This is an important programme aimed at the wider access and dissemination of scientific and scholarly information and knowledge with and between developing and transitional countries. Researchers, academics, scholars and librarians in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda are now invited to access current awareness databases, full-text online journals and document delivery for free.
Further details: /newsletter/id/28788
Contact: inasp@gn.apc.org
Who's misunderstanding whom?
ESRC/ Economic and Social Research Council and British Academy, London, UK - 2000
An inquiry into the relationship between science and the media, presents an agenda of current issues for examination by social science researchers, science policy experts, the media and scientists.
ATCnet Database for the African Health and HIV-AIDS Crisis
ATCnet has launched an easily accessible Internet database for the African Health and HIV-AIDS Crisis to consolidate information about organizations and individuals that are working to combat the crisis. There is a growing global appreciation of the enormity of the health and HIV-AIDS crisis in Africa. With this database it will be possible to publicize the enormous amount of work that African organizations and individuals are doing in Africa to address the pandemic.
Further details: /newsletter/id/28733
Contact: info@atcnet.org
Global DOTS expansion plan
This report provides the first assessment of the status of TB control financing and the resources needed to expand DOTS coverage in the 22 countries with the highest estimated number of cases. Available from the CDS Information Resource Centre.
Contact: cdsdoc@who.int
Information and resources on hepatitis A and hepatitis E
Overviews of the virus, the disease, surveillance and control, prevention and treatment. A glossary and extensive list of references are also provided.
LoveLife: Working to Protect South African Youth from HIV
This Web site details the loveLife initiative, which attempts to reduce HIV infection among South African adolescents by promoting sexual health and healthy futures for young people. The National Survey of South African Youth is available (you need Adobe Acrobat reader to access the chapters of the report), as well as a resource guide to HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Lastly, information about how the project is reaching out to youth--as well as adults--is detailed.
Search global population and health data
This database contains data on 85 demographic variables for 221 countries in the world, for 28 world regions and sub-regions, for the world as a whole, for the United States as a whole, and for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Variables include data on family planning, reproductive health, youth sexual activity, breastfeeding, and women's political participation.