Pharmatalk.co.tz will feature a variety of discussion groups and you can post and receive messages online as well as create your own groups as you go along.
Useful Resources
Building Blocks
Building Blocks: Africa-wide briefing notes is a set of six locally adaptable resources to help communities and local organisations in Africa support children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS. These resources are based on the experience of the Aids Alliance, its partners and other organisations and have been produced in English, French and Portuguese.
Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)
In response to an overwhelming appeal for access to health information from researchers and scientists in the developing world, the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) was launched in January 2002. HINARI is a partnership between the World Health Organization (WHO) and major international publishing companies and offers access to academic institutions, which currently provides free or low-cost access to over 2400 online biomedical and social science journals for eligible institutions in 103 countries.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30573
Training Manual for Health and Social Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implementation of the Essential Nutrition Actions
Health care workers are an invaluable resource for improving maternal and child nutrition in developing countries. Recognizing the need to reinforce the capacity of health care workers in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Support for Analysis and Research in Africa (SARA) and BASICS II projects developed a comprehensive training manual on implementation of Essential Nutrition Actions.
Lancet goes mobile
You can now download selected content from the latest issue of The Lancet to read at your leisure on your mobile device - PDA, wireless PDA or smartphone.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30529
SciDev.net Spotlights on HIV/AIDS: Vaccines and Microbicides
The Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net) has launched two new online 'spotlights' on the science of HIV/AIDS, dealing specifically with the topics of microbicides and vaccines. The spotlights provide an overview of the issues in relation to developing countries through the latest news, summaries of key reports and links.
* Vaccines:
http://www.scidev.net/hiv/vaccines
* Microbicides
http://www.scidev.net/hiv/microbicides
The International Reproductive Health Medical Education Listserv
IRHMedEd is a new forum for people actively working in preservice medical and health education in international reproductive health (IRH). IRHMedEd aims to strengthen the growing community of experts in this field by facilitating a global dialogue and creating an environment for exchanging lessons learned, sharing resources and ideas, solving individual and common problems, and advancing the field of IRH Medical Education.
Global health watch newsletter
The Global Health Watch (GHW) is a new project which articulates civil society's vision for global health. It is a platform for the strengthening of advocacy and campaigns to promote equitable health for all. The global community has failed to achieve 'Health for All by the Year 2000'. New targets such as the Millennium Development goals look increasingly unachievable. Questions need to be asked about whether current policies in global health are working. The Global Health Watch for 2005 will not only look at some of the most important problems such as commercialisation of health and access to medicines, but also suggest solutions and monitor the efforts of institutions and governments concerned with promoting health world-wide.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30480
HIV/AIDS Conference: Useful URL's
The URL for the unofficial "wiki" for the International HIV/AIDS conference taking place in Bangkok, Thailand, from July
11th-16th, is at http://www.aids2004wiki.org. It will allow posting of notes, comments, introductions, information about sessions, event and presentation listings. For more on the conference itself, which is expected to draw between 11,000 and 15,000 delegates - and whose theme is "Access for All" - please see http://www.aids2004.org. To contact someone about the wiki, please write to Jim Cashel at mailto:cashel@ForumOne.com.
Knowledge Sharing for Health Systems in Developing Countries
New Evidence Base and Resources
The Alliance on Health Policy and Systems Research Alliance aims to promote the generation, dissemination and use of knowledge for enhancing health system performance. The new Evidence Base aims to broker knowledge between researcher and policy and programme analysts focusing on developing countries.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30501