The HINARI program, set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Over 3090 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 countries, benefiting many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributing to improved world health.
Useful Resources
Campaigning Toolkit for Civil Society Organisations engaged in the MDGs
This manual aims to assist civil society organisation in campaigning for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Millennium Development Goals form an ambitious agenda for reducing poverty and improving lives. World leaders formulated the MDGs at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000. Each goal contains one or more targets to be reached by 2015, and each country has to set realistic, time-bound and measurable national development goals in line with these targets.
New health information gateway
Alma Mata is a new UK-based information gateway and network for professionals and students interested in careers, training, research and campaigns in international health. You can find us at www.almamata.net.
PlusNews treatment map
At the end of 2004, PlusNews introduced a periodically updated Treatment Map to monitor the rollout of antiretroviral treatment in Africa, providing data for each country on the total number of people on treatment, the drug regimens used, and latest funding provided by the Global Fund, World Bank and PEPFAR. PlusNews is pleased to announce updated data for the following countries: Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda, Madagascar, South Africa, Ghana, Botswana, Namibia.
Getting workers’ interests on the WTO agenda: an action guide for trade unionists
In the run up to the WTO’s 6th Ministerial Conference in December 2005 in Hong Kong, this trade union action guide provides background information as well as a number of tools with which to exert pressure on national governments and trade negotiators to ensure that the concerns trade unionists share globally about the latest round of negotiations are dealt with.
New TB and Malaria News Summary Report
GlobalHealthReporting.org helps journalists, researchers, policy makers and NGOs efficiently sort through the latest and most accurate information on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Further details: /newsletter/id/31131
Claiming the right to health
The Lancet 2005
Recently, the contested relation between health and human rights has drawn increasing attention. Human rights experts are taking on such issues as HIV/AIDS, abortion, family planning, and sexual violence. Perspectives on Health and Human Rights contains 30 essays that attempt to create a framework for thinking about this complex field. It is a valuable book, for the guidance it provides and for the questions it raises. (Requires free registration)
HIV Research Trust scholarship
A new scholarship programme is being run by the International AIDS Society on behalf of the HIV Research Trust. The Scholarship scheme aims to support a broad mix of disciplines while enabling physicians, nurses, scientists, and other health care professionals in resource poor settings to acquire skills relevant to treatment-related research; in order to develop their careers and increase the capacity of their units to carry out research related to treatment and prevention.
Further details: /newsletter/id/31125
ILRIG website
ILRIG is an NGO providing education, publications and research for the labour and social movements in South and Southern Africa. ILRIG have a new and informative website that contains news about events, publications and articles.
PHA presentations available
Presentations from the People's Health Assembly 2, held in Ecuador in July, are now available on a central website. Africa-related presentations include 'Improving Care And Implementing Intersectoral Action Through Participatory Research And Advocacy : An Example From Rural South Africa' by David Sanders, from the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape and ' The war of the transnational oil companies against the people' by Nnimmo Bassey from Nigeria.