The World Health Chart is developed in collaboration between WHO and Swedish institutions. The aim is to visualize world health development and thereby enable better use of international health data for learning, advocacy and hypothesis generation. A first beta-version called WHC 2001 Public Beta 0.1 is now free to download for testing. Please comment to whc@ki.se It can be used by: Teachers and students of health, economics and demography; Professionals and policy makers in the health sector; Staff of international organisations; Researchers and journalists. It can be used to: Learn and teach about health development in the world; Illustrate projects, presentations, articles and campaigns; Advocacy and policy analysis; Generate ideas and hypotheses for research; Assessment of international health data.
Useful Resources
A collaboration between Eldis and the Health Systems Resource Centre providing access to the latest and most relevant knowledge on health systems selected from practitioner and research networks on and off the web. Current topic areas include health, poverty and vulnerability, priority diseases, aid policy and financing mechanisms, global initiatives and PPPs, access to medicines, and health service delivery.
'HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice' is an email newsletter for doctors, nurses, other health care workers and community treatment advocates working in limited-resource settings. The newsletter is published by NAM, the UK-based HIV information charity behind www.aidsmap.com.
In their ongoing effort to support and strengthen community initiatives to combat the HIV/AIDS crisis in KwaZulu-Natal, the Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) and the KwaZulu Natal Churches AIDS Network (KZNCAN), have collaborated to produce the HIVAN/KZNCAN 2003 HIV/AIDS Directory. With over 600 organisations listed, the Directory provides a comprehensive reference resource for HIV/AIDS-related research, intervention and service organisations working in the province.
It may be hard to believe, but the next International AIDS Conference (IAC) is only a little over a year away. The 15th IAC will be held in Bangkok in July 2004. Over the coming weeks, the Intaids eForum is hosting a series of structured discussions on the design, value and impact of the IACs. The discussion will coincide with upcoming planning meetings that will determine the priorities and organisation of the Bangkok conference in 2004. It will hopefully feed into decisions about the IAC2004 format, structure and content, and decisions about prioritisation and resource allocations among the various parts of the conference.
This CD-ROM is a free resource of material on subjects related to health and development. The CD-ROMs allow users to select, adapt and tailor materials to meet local needs and develop their own library of materials at very low or zero cost. Information on the CD-ROM can be downloaded, e-mailed or printed and freely reproduced and shared. The project is supported by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).
The HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse collects recent research and documentation and is working to build interactive information sharing. In addition to finding the latest studies and research for HIV/AIDS and education, you can access related websites, participate in discussion forums and even contact members.
Looking for a copy of the People's Health Charter? What language do you want? It's now available on the People's Health Movement website http://www.phmovement.org in 27 language versions - everything from Arabic to Urdu.
The Gender and Health Equity Network is a partnership of national and international institutions concerned with developing and implementing policies to improve gender and health equity, particularly in resource constrained environments.
Included in this issue:
* Jonathan D Quick
Essential medicines twenty-five years on: closing the access gap, Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 1-3.
* Damian Walker
Cost and cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in developing countries: is there an evidence base? Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 4-17.
* David Ayuku, Wilson Odero, Charles Kaplan, Rene De Bruyn, and Marten De Vries
Social network analysis for health and social interventions among Kenyan scavenging street children, Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 109-118.