This report provides the first assessment of the status of TB control financing and the resources needed to expand DOTS coverage in the 22 countries with the highest estimated number of cases. Available from the CDS Information Resource Centre.
Useful Resources
Information and resources on hepatitis A and hepatitis E
Overviews of the virus, the disease, surveillance and control, prevention and treatment. A glossary and extensive list of references are also provided.
LoveLife: Working to Protect South African Youth from HIV
This Web site details the loveLife initiative, which attempts to reduce HIV infection among South African adolescents by promoting sexual health and healthy futures for young people. The National Survey of South African Youth is available (you need Adobe Acrobat reader to access the chapters of the report), as well as a resource guide to HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Lastly, information about how the project is reaching out to youth--as well as adults--is detailed.
Search global population and health data
This database contains data on 85 demographic variables for 221 countries in the world, for 28 world regions and sub-regions, for the world as a whole, for the United States as a whole, and for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Variables include data on family planning, reproductive health, youth sexual activity, breastfeeding, and women's political participation.
CD-ROM on Importance of Safe Blood
Safe Blood Starts With Me, Blood Saves Lives
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.
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.