Today, information sharing is getting simpler and getting better. The Blood Transfusion Safety Team at WHO is pleased to make available - free of charge - a CD-ROM containing facts, figures and photos on the importance of safe blood. This material, produced for World Health Day 2000 on Blood Safety, is an excellent educational tool for
schools or health mangers alike. Ask for Mac or PC versions, indicating the quantity requested, from: The Blood Transfusion Safety Team, Blood Safety and Clinical Technology, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 19, Switzerland.
Useful Resources
CD-ROM on Importance of Safe Blood
Safe Blood Starts With Me, Blood Saves Lives
Further details: /newsletter/id/28707
Contact: bloodsafety@who.int
HIV/AIDS and the eye
This teaching slide/text set is produced by The International Resource Centre for the Prevention of Blindness and addresses the ocular complications that affect more than half of patients with HIV. It is available at a discouted rate to healthworkers in developing countries.
Contact: eyeresource@ucl.ac.uk
Human Development Report 2001
Making new technologies work for human development
Technology networks are transforming the traditional map of development, expanding people's horizons and creating the potential to realize in a decade progress that required generations in the past.
Importance of Safe Blood
- autologous blood transfusion
The eatset webpage is dedicated to safe blood transfusion practice using patients own blood in cases of internal haemorrhage. We have worked on over 75 patients who suffered from ruptured internal bleeding from tubal pregnancy.
Youth in sub-Saharan Africa:
a chartbook on sexual experience and reproductive health
This book reviews data from demographic and health surveys in 11 countries in the region, focusing on adolescents aged 15 to 19. It aims to provide decisionmakers with a better understanding of the experiences and needs of adolescents in the region, and to inform public debate on these issues. It is available free to people working in developing countries, email Donna Clifton.
Contact: prborders@prb.org
CADRE WEBSITE
The Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (Cadre) is a South African non-profit organisation working in the area of HIV/AIDS social research, project development and communications. Cadre has offices in Johannesburg, Grahamstown and Cape Town. Cadre's main objective is to ensure that relevant social research is applied to developing a coherent and systematic response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa. The Cadre website offers a wide range of downloadable publications and a searchable bibliographic database.
Free access to journals of BMJ Group
The following countries are entitled to free access to our sites. This list is compiled of countries defined by the World Bank as "Low
Income Economies". Potential subscribers should follow the standard subscription procedure as our subscription system will automatically recognise the origin of access; countries in the list below will automatically qualify for free access. For further details on this policy, please refer to the relevant editorial in each journal. The following electronic editions of journals are freely available on the net: (see: http://www.bmjjournals.com/)
Further details: /newsletter/id/28668
Nature Science Update
Now rebuilt and redesigned to feature easier navigation and searching, richer internal and external linking and more images, animations, audio and video, Nature Science Update is a free, authoritative and accessible online round-up of what's new in scientific research.
Resources for Primary Health Care and Other Health
Revised edition now available
NGO Networks for Health (Networks) is pleased to present the second edition of its Resources series. The Resources series describes useful training manuals, reference materials, and documentation of best practices and emerging lessons through many years of international, national, and community-based health programs. It is hoped that the series will help non governmental and private voluntary organizations (NGOs/PVOs) plan and strengthen health programs for women, children, and families in developing countries. The series also includes references that will help community-based organizations,
health workers, and policy-makers advocate for improved delivery of health information and services. The first edition of the Resources series documented resources for family planning, maternal and child health, and HIV/AIDS programs. This second edition is broken into two sections. Section I describes resources available on the topic of primary health care. Section II describes newsletters and periodicals on a range of health issues, including family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, child health, primary health care, pharmaceuticals, disabilities, and eye health. We hope you will find this edition of Resources full of valuable information to assist you in your work.
Trilingual educational malaria CD-ROM now available free of charge
The malaria educational site from Royal Perth Hospital, is now available in French, English and Spanish. The site contains sections on Diagnosis, Prophylaxis, Treatment and History as well as an innovative interactive "Test & Teach" self assessment module. It is an ideal site for Clinicians, Scientists, Healthcare Professionals and Students. The MK IV version of a trilingual (English/Spanish/French) CD-ROM (sponsored by Abbott Diagnostics) with the same content as the website is now ready for distribution (FREE) to institutions without, or with only limited internet access. (The CD-ROM is now being used by medical/educational institutions in 112 countries). For further details please contact Graham Icke.
Contact: Graham.Icke@health.wa.gov.au