Useful Resources

Auntie Stella launched

The Training and Research Centre (TARSC) based in Harare, Zimbabwe has launched a website, Auntie Stella, created specifically for young people related to their reproductive health in order to help them discuss and solve problem related to this issue. The site is an adaptation of the print version of Auntie Stella that has been hugely successful with in and out of school youths.

Breast-feeding Site Added To Namibia MoHSS Web Site

The Food and Nutrition unit of the Namibia Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS)recently received WHO support to contract a local Web site developer to create a very comprehensive site addressing breast-feeding in Namibia. The site's content was developed by MoHSS staff, and includes a wide variety of information on the Baby and Mother Friendly Facility Initiative in Namibia, Government policies and strategies for promoting breast-feeding and maternal and baby health, facts and figures relating to breast feeding, and a resource guide for health workers that details reasons for and ways to promote breast-feeding.

Further details: /newsletter/id/29044
COHRED web site: new feature

COHRED regularly receives requests to fund health research projects. Although we are not a donor agency we have a commitment to act as broker for countries applying Essential National Health Research. In response to this, COHRED has compiled a database of development partners in health research. This database is now accessible through the COHRED web site and includes valuable information for each organisation such as the activities most funded, specified priority regions or countries, and a summary of guidelines for proposals. The database is an ongoing project and will be updated continuously. The aim is to refine the data and add development partners to better serve the needs of COHRED's stakeholders. Readers are invited to provide suggestions, improvements and more up-to-date information. Organisations who wish to be included in the database are also welcome to contact us.

Free Resources from the EQUITY Project

The EQUITY Project is a joint Project between the Government of the Republic of South Africa and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/South Africa. The mission of the EQUITY Project is one of collegial empowerment building capacity in the Eastern Cape Department of Health that assures a dynamic, responsive, sustainable and equitable health system with full participation of all people of Eastern Cape based on the global principles of primary health care. Copies of the following documents are available free of charge from the EQUITY Project by phoning Cathy or Melissa on (040) 635 1310 or writing to: Management Sciences for Health, P O Box 214, Bisho, 5605. Many of the publications can also be downloaded in PDF format from the website.

Further details: /newsletter/id/28979
International Journal for Equity in Health

ISEqH will launch the International Journal for Equity in Health by Spring 2002. This will be a peer-reviewed, electronic journal under the auspices of BiomedCentral (www.biomedcentral.com). Articles published in the journal will be cited in PubMed. The purpose of the journal will be to further the state of knowledge about equity in health, defined as systematic and potentially remediable differences in health across populations and population groups defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically.

Ipas's vision: Protecting women's health, advancing women's reproductive rights

This 12-page booklet provides a general description of Ipas and its worldwide activities in training, research, advocacy, distribution of reproductive health technologies, and information dissemination. It includes highlights of Ipas programs in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, North America and Europe, and at the global level. The brochure also articulates Ipas's vision of, and leadership in, a global initiative to mobilize commitment and resources at all levels to improve the quality and accessibility of abortion care in the context of comprehensive reproductive health care, to ensure sustainable access to reproductive health technologies, and to create social and policy environments that support women's reproductive health and rights. Hard copies are available free of charge.

SciDev: New website on science and technology

A new website dedicated to science, technology, and development was launched in London, UK on
Dec. 3, 2001. Called SciDev.Net, the site aims to be both a source of information and a forum for the exchange of ideas of relevance to the developing world. Two prestigious journals, Nature and Science, are backing the initiative and will give free access to selected articles each week. In addition, a network of correspondents will bring news about scientific and technological developments in the South to a global audience. Its broad objective is to help empower individuals, communities and decision-makers in developing countries, in particular by increasing their ability to ensure the effective contribution of science and technology to public health and economic well-being in an environmentally sustainable way. An integral part of the website will be a series of 'dossiers'. These will bring together various types of material - ranging from short news items and opinion articles to authoritative 'policy briefs' - on key topics at the interface between science, technology and society, with a particular focus on the relevance of these topics to developing countries.

TB information on CD-ROM

The TB Information Guide, Version 2.0 CD-ROM is now available with updated content and improved usability. The CD-ROM provides ready access to education and training materials, major CDC TB guidelines, Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Reports, surveillance reports, slide sets, and publications ordering information.

Further details: /newsletter/id/28991
AIDS Orphans Assistance Database (AOAD)

The Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (AFXB) and the World Bank Early Child Development Team have launched the revised AIDS Orphans Assistance Database (AOAD). The purpose of the AOAD is to facilitate communication among organisations and individuals worldwide which provide assistance to children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS and to their caregivers. The AOAD is an online tool that allows users to enter information, search for, learn about and contact others interested in helping children affected by HIV/AIDS.

Further details: /newsletter/id/28949
The Body
A website on HIV/AIDS

The Body's mission is to: Use the Web to lower barriers between patients and clinicians. Demystify HIV/AIDS and its treatment. Improve patients' quality of life. Foster community through human connection.

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