How do you measure the value of a specific reproductive health (RH) programme? What indicates the value of NGO interventions in the field of RH? What is the difference between monitoring and evaluating? These and many more questions are answered in the eleventh EC/UNFPA Initiative for Reproductive Health in Asia (RHI) Fact Sheet on Monitoring and Evaluation in a sexual and reproductive health (SRH) context, written by Megan Douthwaite and Ronald Horstman of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), respectively.
Useful Resources
reproductive health
Tracking Changes and Optimising Performance
Further details: /newsletter/id/28913
Contact: rhi_info@asia-initiative.org
Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa:
A Chartbook on Sexual Experience and Reproductive Health
Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the world's youngest populations. At the beginning of the 21st century, about one out of every four people in sub-Saharan Africa is 10 to 19 years old. This is the largest group of young people ever in the region. To what extent are young people in the region prepared for adulthood? This chartbook examines factors that are important to a healthy transition, including education and exposure to information, sexual experience and marriage, HIV/AIDS, childbearing, contraception, and maternal health. Document code: PRBIYSSAENG
To obtain, put document code in the body of an e-mail.
Contact: documents@prbdocs.org
Heredity
An International Journal of Genetics
From 2002, Nature Publishing Group will publish Heredity, a journal of the Genetics Society. Focusing on eukaryotes, the journal publishes key papers on ecological, population and evolutionary
genetics, including human population genetics; genomics and post-genomics as applied to evolutionary questions; biometrical and statistical genetics; animal and plant breeding and cytogenetics. For submission and subscription enquiries e-mail us.
Contact: hdy@nature.com
HOSPICAL - tool for allocating hospital costs
From Management Sciences for Health
Hospital managers, policymakers and provincial health officers can use HOSPICAL to analyse current costs and revenue. It consists of a user's guide and an electronic spreadsheet file that allows managers to manage resources more effectively. It is available free of charge to institutions in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Contact: bookstore@msh.org
Mini-portal on environmental health
The Info Services page on the Environmental Health Project website has been changed to a mini-portal on environmental health to hopefully provide a more organized and convenient method for obtaining information on environmental health. Please check it out and contact Dan Campbell if you find it useful and if you have suggestions and other categories or resources to add.
Contact: campbelldb@ehproject.org
Directory of International Grants and Fellowships in the Health Sciences
Updated August 1, 2001
Fogarty International Center National Institutes of Health - USA
The National Institutes of Health is one of many public and private organizations across the globe that provide international support for biomedical research and training. Since 1988, the Fogarty International Center has published the Directory of International Grants and Fellowships in the Health Sciences. This directory is a comprehensive compilation of international opportunities in biomedical research.
Food and Nutrition Library:
Information on CD Roms
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.
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