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)
Useful Resources
Claiming the right to health
The Lancet 2005
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.
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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.
What's New in the Synergy Resource Center?
The Synergy HIV/AIDS http://www.synergyaids.com/resources.asp Online Resource Center contains 3,824 searchable online documents relevant to HIV/AIDS project management, research, and reproductive health issues. Please click on the links, where available, to view the latest additions to the Synergy Resource Center. For questions or inquiries, please mail SynergyInfo@s-3.com
Free downloads from Intrac
The following notes are now available to download for free from the Praxis area of INTRAC's website:
* 'Building Capacity to Mainstream HIV/AIDS Internally: Reflecting on CABUNGO's Experience with NGOs in Malawi', by Rick James and CABUNGO, July 2005
* 'Robbed of Dorothy! The Painful Realities of HIV/AIDS in an Organisation', by Betsy Mboizi and Rick James, June 2005
* 'Capacity Building in an AIDS-Affected Health Care Institution: Mulanje Mission Hospital, Malawi', by Hans Rode, April 2005
* 'The Crushing Impact of HIV/AIDS on Leadership in Malawi', by Rick James, April 2005
www.intrac.org
New HIV/AIDS Dossier from scidev.net
Scidev.net have just launched a range of new in-depth materials on the latest scientific and technological advances to combat HIV/AIDS in developing countries. Articles include perspectives from the South, with an overview of HIV research in Brazil and microbicides research in South Africa forming two of the new opinion pieces.
Non-communicable diseases, injuries and mental health
Chronic, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), mental disorders, and injuries and violence are major public health problems in developing countries. Together, they account for over 40 per cent of the disease burden in high mortality developing countries, and over 75 per cent in lower mortality developing countries. So why are they so often overlooked by policymakers? The HRC/Eldis Health Resource Guide has launched a topic guide to NCDs, injuries and mental health. Produced in collaboration with subject experts, it provides a synthesis of the latest thinking and research on these issues, with summaries of key readings and links to further resources.
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Source website
Source is an international information support centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability.
Globalization and Health - a new journal
An international network of public health practitioners and policy-makers have come together to launch the new journal Globalization and Health. The journal will be an Open Access (i.e. free to the end user), peer-reviewed, online journal providing a forum for debate and discussion on the topic of globalization and its impact on public health. This will be the first journal to deal exclusively with the subject, and aims to draw on a global resource base, producing content which is accessible and relevant to a truly global audience.
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