Useful Resources

Health InterNetwork

The Health InterNetwork was created to bridge the "digital divide" in health, ensuring that relevant information - and the technologies to deliver it - are widely available and effectively used by health personnel: professionals, researchers and scientists, and policy makers. As the first phase of making vital health content available, the Health InterNetwork provides here a vast library of the latest and best information on public health: more than 2,000 scientific publications, one of the world's largest collections of biomedical literature.

Women, Children and HIV: Resources for Prevention and Treatment

This is a CD ROM containing over 5,000 pages of text related to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care of HIV infected women and children. Designed for ease of use for those who are seeking to establish, or have established, programs for women and children with HIV. Topics include counseling and testing, primary prevention, care of women, perinatal interventions, nutrition and infant feeding, care of children, rape and violence, orphans and families affected by HIV. Within each topic there are overviews, guidelines and policy analyses (WHO, CDC, NIH), community education information, research journal articles and reports, listings of organizations and related Internet sites. Included are sample model brochures and healthcare training instructions. Adobe Acrobat and a browser are included to allow for printing and searching.

Change:
Behaviour change and health

The CHANGE Project develops and applies practical solutions to behaviour change problems relevant to health and nutrition through collaborative partnerships with local governments, private voluntary agencies, non-governmental organisations and USAID co-operating agencies. Examples of problems that CHANGE focuses on include the "deadly delay" in seeking
treatment for sick children or women with complications in childbirth.

Database on Mobile Populations and HIV/AIDS

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) have set up a searchable web-based bibliography database on mobile populations and HIV/AIDS. CADRE is a South African non-profit organisation working in the area of HIV/AIDS social research, project development and communications. CADRE is hosting the database on their website: http://www.cadre.org.za Click on bibliographies in the menu, and put a tick mark left of the database HIV/AIDS and Mobile Populations in Southern Africa and search. Some search results have hyperlinks to electronic documents and other websites. If you have a new entry please email CADRE, they will update the database regularly.

HIV/AIDS NGO/CBO support kit

The International HIV/AIDS Alliance has produced an electronic library of resources about NGO/CBO support that have been collated from a wide range of organisations, based on the many viable approaches to NGO/CBO support provision. The toolkit will be of interest to organisations that
fund and/or provide technical support to local NGOs and CBOs. These resources are accessible on CD-ROM as well as on the website.

Southern Africa: AIDS information portal

The South African Medical Research Council (MRC) in collaboration with several partners is in the process of establishing an Internet information portal on HIV/AIDS for Southern Africa. The portal will provide a unique knowledge resource to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing among institutions and individuals in the prevention of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.

A Framework for Action on Health and the Environment
UN WEHAB Working Group

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan commissioned five papers on Water, Energy, Health and Agriculture from the relevant United Nations bodies for consideration at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in August 2002. These papers are intended to describe the current situation in a particular focus area, identify key gaps and challenges and highlight action where further action is needed.

Improving access to HIV/AIDS related treatment

The International HIV/AIDS Alliance has produced a report to share experiences and lessons learnt from its work in with its partners in a number of countries. As well as describing the experiences, the report looks at the different elements that contribute to good practice in HIV/AIDS-related treatment and concludes with an exploration of the key issues around improving access to treatment.

Information source

Source has been designed to meet the information needs of those working in health, disability and development worldwide. It is a collaboration between two international NGOs, Healthlink Worldwide and Handicap International UK and an academic institution, the Centre for International Child Health. It is aimed at health workers, researchers, rehabilitation workers,non-governmental and governmental organisations and disabled peoples' organisations worldwide and has a unique collection of over 20,000 health and disability related information resources. Source opens in September in London.

Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS across development sector in Africa
UNAIDS and GTZ

At the last ICASA in Ouagadougou, UNAIDS, the Union Economique et Monetaire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (UEMOA), and GTZ, co-hosted a Satellite Conference on the theme: "Concrete Experiences with Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS across Development Sectors in Africa". Starting from the material presented at the Conference, we have co-edited a document under the title "Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS: A Conceptual Framework and Implementing Principles" with the assistance of JSAConsultants, Ghana. To obtain a copy of the document please contact us at gtzrap@ghana.com

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