The re-designed and up-graded website is designed to keep concerned members of the public, international organisations and policy makers up to date on MSI's sexual and reproductive health programmes in 38 countries worldwide, as well as its advocacy and policy activities.
Useful Resources
UN/WHO: Updated list of HIV/AIDS-related products
UNICEF, UNAIDS, WHO and Medicins Sans Frontieres have produced an updated list of HIV medications, HIV testing kits and suppliers of HIV/AIDS-related products designed to help procurement agencies and national governments obtain such products for the best value.
AIDS.Edumela
AIDS.Edumela is a new website aimed at providing information on the HIV/AIDS situation in Botswana and other parts of Southern Africa. Their page "About Condoms" contains user contributions about the use of condoms and other issues related to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Botswana.
Barcelona: XIV International AIDS conference
Follow the developments
Kaisernetwork.org will feature daily coverage of the XIV International AIDS conference, all of which is available for you not only to view at www.kaisernetwork.org/aids2002, but also to link to and/or post on your website, free of charge, including:
* Webcasts and transcripts of plenary sessions, satellite meetings, press conferences, and other sessions, along with in-depth related resources
* Daily updates and highlights of the day's events
* Interviews with newsmakers and perspectives from those who have been fighting or covering AIDS.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29229
CD-ROM: Media/Materials for Health Communication
The Media/Materials Clearinghouse at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs is pleased to make available a new CD-ROM: "Media/Materials for Health Communication" which is a CD-ROM of the M/MC's website. The CD-ROM is a "carry-along" resource center with many databases of health communication materials, photographs, videos, etc., as well as several of the M/MC's newsletters. Also included is a checklist that walks the user through the planning and establishment of a multi-media resource center.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29222
Choosing a Birth Control Method:
An Interactive Program to Help You Choose the Birth Control Method That\'s Right for You (web-based questionnaire)
This site offers recommendations on which methods may be best suited for an individual answering 20 questions about lifestyle choices and medical history. Once the questions are anonymously submitted, a list of contraceptive options that best suit these needs is generated. The program also offers a general descriptions, effectiveness rates, side effects and approximate cost for each contraceptive method.
How To Survive Peer Review
New Title from BMJ Books
Elizabeth Wager, Fiona Godlee and Tom Jefferson
* How to survive the peer review of journal articles, conference abstracts and grant proposals
* How to be a reviewer
* Professional peer review
* Informal peer review
ISBN number 0 7279 1686 6
80 Pages
Price (in Pounds Sterling) 12.95
Published 2002
For orders contact:orders@bmjbooks.com
Tel: +44-207-383-6185
Fax: +44-207-383-6662
Contact: orders@bmjbooks.com
The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) website
HIVAN aims to showcase the positive, creative and proactive approaches in the fight against HIV/AIDS. They have currently focused largely on KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, but have drawn in from national sources, the rest of Africa and abroad. They've also tried to highlight partnerships, especially those which are multisectoral and multidisciplinary. The site also contain a comprehensive database of HIV/AIDS-related organisations and individuals and regularly updated listings of international funding opportunities.
[HIF-net at WHO] Effective use of English in health publications
Can anyone help?
TALC is producing a series of free CD-Roms on health. David Morley, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Child Health, Tropical Child Health Unit, is looking for help addressing his concern that the English in these be appropriate for those to whom it is a second language. Does anyone know of a vocabulary list for those who have had secondary school education? Is there a computer programme which would identify words in a text outside this vocabulary, print them in a different font and take those that are unfamiliar with the word to a glossary with a click? Please send any imput to David Morley via email.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29211
Contact: David@morleydc.demon.co.uk
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in Resource-Constrained Settings:
A Handbook for the Design and Management of Programs
Edited by Peter R Lamptey, MD, DrPH and Helene Gayle, MD, MPH. The Handbook is a comprehensive source of information on how to design and manage HIV/AIDS prevention and care programs, especialy in developing countries. For a copy of this handbook or a CD ROM version, please contact Shawna Brown by email or telephone (USA)703.516.9779.
Contact: sbrown@fhi.org