The TRIP Database allows users to rapidly and easily identify high quality medical literature from a wide range of sources. The content of the TRIP Database is separated into a number of categories. Content includes systematic reviews, CATs, and journal clubs.
Useful Resources
Organisations involved in Tsunami relief efforts
World Health Organization / Pan American Health and Education Foundation
www.paho.org
* Action Aid
www.actionaid.org
* American Friends Service Committee (AFSC Crisis Fund)
www.afsc.org
* Care International
www.care.org
* Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders
www.msf.org / www.doctorswithoutborders.org
* Red Cross and Red Crescent
www.ifrc.org
* Salvation Army
www.salvationarmy.org
* Save the Children
www.savethechildren.org
* Oxfam
www.oxfam.org
* United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef
www.unicef.org
* United Nations World Food Programme
www.wfp.org
* UN refugee agency, UNHCR
www.unhcr.ch
Scaling up ARV treatment: A toolkit
This toolkit from the World Health Organisation addresses the fact that lack of access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment has perpetuated HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in many countries. Increasing the availability and accessibility of ARV treatment will significantly reduce stigma and discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients.
Globalization and Health
Globalization and Health is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal soon to be launched by BioMed Central. Globalization and Health will encompass all aspects of globalization and its effects on public health.
Rural and remote health
Rural and Remote Health, the international, electronic Journal of Rural and Remote Health education, practice and policy is an initiative of the Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health, located in south-eastern Australia. The Journal's aim is to provide an easily accessible, peer-reviewed, international evidence-base to inform improvement in health service delivery and health status in rural communities.
Strategic Communication in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
This book promotes the use of strategic communication to fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Focusing on strategic communication for positive and measurable behaviour change, the authors elaborate on a wide range of issues including: the importance of advocacy and community mobilization; comprehensive approaches to prevention and the use of communication in reducing stigma; communication programmes for a wide range of specific groups including intravenous drug users and refugees; the role of communication in support of clinical and social services; the care and support of vulnerable children; and selected communication approaches such as entertainment-education, telephone hotlines and digital communication.
Newsletter of the Council on Health Research for Development
The Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) is an international non-governmental organisation that works towards enabling countries to set up and use health research to foster health, equity in health, and development. A special edition of the COHRED newsletter looks at COHRED's impact on health research for development since it was established in 1993.
The Link: HIV/AIDS communication
The first issue of the Healthlink Worldwide newsletter, 'The Link', looks at the efficacy and appropriateness of HIV/AIDS communication - which become ever more critical as the epidemic's complexity and spread continue to grow.
Medical Research Council of Zimbabwe web page
The Medical Research Council of Zimbabwe web page http://www.afronets.org/mrcz.php has just been updated. You may visit this page if you require information on conducting health research in Zimbabwe. Ethics Committee application forms can also be downloaded from our page.
New AIFO webpage
Among the new additions are online books, documents and reports related to leprosy, disability, primary health; etc, some online learning courses and online exhibitions.