ESRC/ Economic and Social Research Council and British Academy, London, UK - 2000
An inquiry into the relationship between science and the media, presents an agenda of current issues for examination by social science researchers, science policy experts, the media and scientists.
Useful Resources
Who's misunderstanding whom?
ATCnet Database for the African Health and HIV-AIDS Crisis
ATCnet has launched an easily accessible Internet database for the African Health and HIV-AIDS Crisis to consolidate information about organizations and individuals that are working to combat the crisis. There is a growing global appreciation of the enormity of the health and HIV-AIDS crisis in Africa. With this database it will be possible to publicize the enormous amount of work that African organizations and individuals are doing in Africa to address the pandemic.
Further details: /newsletter/id/28733
Contact: info@atcnet.org
Global DOTS expansion plan
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.
Contact: cdsdoc@who.int
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.