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  • Informing the Future: Critical Issues in Health (2001)
    http://www.nap.edu/books/NI000335/html/
     This 128-page publication, freely available on-line, features information on recent U.S. Institute of Medicine reports relating to health care and public health. It includes a chapter on global health concerns.

  • Tobacco: the next World War? - by Daniel Epstein
    http://165.158.1.110/english/DPImag/Number4/dpi4article5.htm
     The first battles pitting public health advocates against big tobacco companies began in the U.S. and Canada, but now they are spreading throughout Latin America and the Caribbean as scores of private physicians and community organizations band together in tobacco prevention and control activities. Only 4% of the world's smokers are in the U.S., and of the 3 million tobacco-related deaths each year, 85% occur in other countries.

  • Alzheimer's Research Mines Pockets of Memory - by Susan Okie
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/seniors/stories/alzheimers090799.htm
     This Washington Post article reports on research evaluating the use of video as an experimental "treatment" for Alzheimer's disease at the Washington Home, a long-term care facility in northwest Washington, D.C. Psychiatrist Gene D. Cohen of George Washington University Medical School is trying to learn whether fragments of the past, presented in the form of video biographies, can help anchor Alzheimer's patients in the present – by orienting them, triggering memories and making it easier for them to interact with family members and caregivers.

  • Children teach their parents a lesson in hygiene: New loos at two rural Indian primaries are having unexpected results in health education - by Luke Harding
    http://www.changemakers.net/library/temp/guardian121002.cfm
     http://www.wateraid.org.uk/
     This December 2002 article from the Guardian Weekly details the UK's WaterAid charity initiative in rural India to bring sanitation and much improved health and education to poor people.
    Contact Information:
    WaterAid
    Prince Consort House
    27-29 Albert Embankment
    London   SE1 7UB
    UK
    Telephone: 44 20 7793 4500   Fax: 44 20 7793 4545
    Email: wateraid@wateraid.org.uk

  • Clothes clean drinking water: Filtering with an old sari cuts cholera cases by half. - by Kendall Powell
    http://www.nature.com/nsu/030113/030113-2.html
     Filtering drinking water from rivers and ponds through a folded piece of cotton cloth could cut disease by half in cholera-plagued countries, a new field study suggests... Anwar Huq, an environmental microbiologist at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute in Baltimore, explains how the group decided on sari cloth: "Being Bangladeshi, I had seen people using old sari cloth to filter insects out of a sugar drink made in the home." In lab tests the researchers found that old, cheap sari cloth makes a better filter than new, expensive cloth. The threads become smushy and loose, as a result the pore size becomes even smaller," says Huq. "It really works, and it doesn't cost a penny for poor villagers to use." Filtration might help to fight other waterborne diseases, such as dysentery and salmonella, he suggests.
    Notable Feature(s): Additional information in these remarks by Dr. Rita R. Colwell, "A Global Thirst for Safe Water: The Case of Cholera."
    Contact Information:
    Email: colwell@umbi.umd.edu

  • Dying for Change – Poor people's experience of health and ill-health
    http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/voices/reports/dying/dyifull2.pdf
     A number of valuable lessons emerged from the study. Three should be mentioned here. First, poor people view and value their health in a holistic sense, as a balance of physical, psychological and community well-being. This view, consistent with the WHO definition of health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”, is remarkably consistent across age, gender, nationality and culture. Second, people overwhelmingly link disease and ill-health to poverty. Poor people define poverty in the conventional way – lack of income – but also as instability, worry, shame, sickness, humiliation and powerlessness. All these manifestations have consequences for health. Third, good health is not only valued in its own right, but also because it is crucial to economic survival.

  • From hospitals to herbalists: Rx herbal medicines - by Michelle Hibler
    http://www.idrc.ca/reports/read_article_english.cfm?article_num=1023
     In Uganda, the rural population is as likely to consult a herbalist as a medical practitioner for common complaints, including diarrhoea, cough, blood disorders, headaches, malaria, and abdominal pains. The popularity of traditional healers in this country of 22 million people is easy to explain. Accessibility is key. In Uganda, there is one healer for every 200-400 people. Trained medical personnel are far fewer—only one for every 20,000 people. "And since healers live in the communities they serve, they're easy to consult," says Mr Corn Alele Amai, Senior Research Officer at the Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Laboratory (NCRL) in Kampala. "Equally important, their services are inexpensive—in fact, herbal medicines are often free," he says, "or can be paid for in kind." There's also a strong cultural attachment to this form of health care.
    Contact Information:
    Corn Alele Amai, Senior Research Officer
    Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Laboratory
    PO Box 4864
    Kampala
    Uganda
    Email: cmai@afsat.com

  • Health & Human Rights: An International Journal
    http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/journal.htm
     http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/index.htm
     The journal is an initiative of The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, the first academic center to focus exclusively on health and human rights, combines the academic strengths of research and teaching with a strong commitment to service and advocacy.
    The Center was founded at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1993 through a gift from the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud. In 1996 it moved from its original location in Cambridge to the newly constructed François-Xavier Bagnoud Building at HSPH in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston.
    Notable Feature(s): Vol.5, No.1, 2000 with abstracts available online, including articles on the right to health care in South Africa, women's mental health, protecting the rights of sex workers; Working Papers Series on a variety of issues in health and human rights.
    Contact Information:
    François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human R
    Harvard School of Public Health
    651 Huntington Avenue, 7th floor
    Boston, MA   02115
    USA
    Telephone: 617.432.0656   Fax: 617.432.4310
    Email: fxbcenter@igc.org

  • Hope's Edge: The New Diet for a Small Planet
    http://www.small-planet.org/
     In her 1971 best-seller Diet for a Small Planet, Frances Moore Lappé sparked a revolution in the way Americans think about food and hunger, teaching millions the social and personal significance of a new way of eating. Now, thirty years later, Frances and her daughter Anna pick up where Diet for a Small Planet left off. Travelling to Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the heart of our own country, they met trailblazers who are crashing through limiting belief systems--practical visionaries carrying us into the new century with honest hope: from poor villagers in Kenya turning back the encroaching desert to landless peasants in Brazil facing down big landowners to create vibrant communities; from village women in Bangladesh taking life's biggest risks to lift their families out of poverty to renegade farmers in Wisconsin, undeterred by widespread hardship, learning to thrive while caring for the land. The product of those travels is Hope's Edge: The New Diet for a Small Planet...a far-reaching vision for social and environmental transformation.
    Notable Feature(s): Chapter-by-chapter description and profiles from the book, along with links to the country-specific organizations and leaders profiled.
    Contact Information:
    Anna Lappé
    Email: alappe@hotmail.com

  • Self-Adjusted Glasses Could Be Boon to Africa - by Nicholas Thompson, Markle Fellow, New America Foundation
    http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=article&pubID=1062
     http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=home
     The percentage of people in Ghana with vision problems roughly equals the percentage in the United States, according to John Randall, an American-trained optometrist who teaches at the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. But in Ghana, as in other developing countries, poor vision is far more likely to be caused by poor nutrition or by illnesses like trachoma, a bacterial disease that slowly causes blindness. In developed countries like the United States, it is relatively easy to find an eye doctor and good glasses. In Ghana, there are about 50 optometrists for a population of nearly 20 million, and the per capita income is less than a dollar a day. Getting glasses can take a week's travel and several months' wages. Now an Oxford University physicist has developed a novel remedy and is trying it out in Ghana on the advice of the World Health Organization: eyeglasses that allow wearers to correct their own vision with no need for an optometrist.
    Contact Information:
    THE NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION
    1630 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
    7th Floor
    Washington, D.C.   20009
    USA
    Telephone: 202.986.2700   Fax: 202.986.3696
    Email: webmaster@newamerica.net

  • Strengthening Community-based Health Care in Urban China - by Michael Dobie
    http://www.idrc.ca/reports/read_article_english.cfm?article_num=857
     When residents of Beijing's Zhongguancun neighbourhood wanted medical treatment they used to go to a hospital. Sometimes they waited several hours to get treated by a specialist. Now, thanks to a pilot project funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and China's Ministry of Health, they can phone their new family doctor to make an appointment, or they can drop in to the new community health centre (CHC). Project leader Chen Bowen, Director of Child Health and Development at the Capital Institute of Pediatrics, and the doctors in the two community health centres are introducing the concept of the family physician to China.
    Contact Information:
    Chen Bowen, MD
    Director, Department of Child Health and Development
    Capital Institute of Pediatrics
    No. 2, Ya Bao Road
    Beijing   100020
    China
    Telephone: 86.10.6512.7766   Fax: 86.10.6512.8367
    Email: bowen@public3.bta.net.cn

  • Stunted Lives, Stagnant Economies: Poverty, Disease, and Underdevelopment - by Eileen Stillwaggon
    http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v280n24/ffull/jbk1223-6.html
     This site offers a review by Gilbert S. Omenn of Eileen Stillwaggon's 1998 book: "She challenges her fellow developmental economists and the World Bank and other international organizations to put a higher value on healthy lives and public and private policies to assure health for all in their theoretical and practical equations aimed at stimulating development of national economies. She insists that basic health depends more upon political and economic actions than upon science and medical services."
    Using Argentina as a case study, Stunted Lives, Stagnant Economies describes in vivid detail the living conditions of the poor in developing countries and the diseases and injuries that result from this environment of need. Most of the diseases that affect the poor -cholera, summer diarrhea, tuberculosis, lice, worms, leprosy - result from the poverty of their environment. Poverty also determines the availability and effectiveness of the medical response.

  • World Health Report 2001: Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope
    http://www.who.int/whr/2001/main/en/index.htm
     http://www.who.int/whr/
     The World Health Organization is making a simple statement: mental health ­ neglected for far too long ­ is crucial to the overall well-being of individuals, societies and countries and must be universally regarded in a new light. Joined now by the United Nations General Assembly, which this year marks the 10th anniversary of the rights of the mentally ill to protection and care, WHO and the World Health Report 2001 offer renewed emphasis to the UN principles laid down a decade ago. The first of these principles is that there shall be no discrimination on the grounds of mental illness.
    Notable Feature(s): Full-text available online in French and English in PDF; World Health Report archives: 1995-2000; Mental Health and Brain Disorders.
    Contact Information:
    Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence
    World Health Organization
    20 Avenue Appia
    1211 Geneva 27
    Switzerland
    Telephone: +41 22 791 3634  
    Email: mnh@who.int

  • Africa Health Links
    http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/health.html
     Contact Information:
    Hoover Library
    Stanford University Fax: 650.725.4655
    Email: fung@hoover.stanford.edu

  • African Medical and Research Foundation
    http://www.amref.org/
     The people of sub-Saharan Africa face numerous health threats: epidemics, civil war, rapid population growth and environmental damage. Health infrastructure is often scant or non-existent. For 42 years, AMREF has worked with local communities and governments to research and alleviate the region's health problems. AMREF's mission, governments and donors, is to improve health care for the underserved in Africa through service delivery, training and research. AMREF is a field-orientated organisation that implements programmes. It does not make grants.
    Notable Feature(s): Information on the Flying Doctors service; clinical service; medical alerts; teaching materials; health advice for travellers; links.
    Contact Information:
    AMREF USA
    19 West 44th Street, Suite 1708
    New York, New York   10036
    Telephone: (212) 768 2440   Fax: (212) 768 4230
    Email: amref.usa@amref.org

  • AFXB AIDS Orphan Alert
    http://www.fxb.org/indexeng.html
     The AFXB AIDS Orphan Alert, a news and information update about children made vulnerable by the global AIDS pandemic, is compiled by the Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud, an international NGO active in AIDS orphans advocacy and community-based responses to the pandemic.  The organization's intention is to help build an active and informed network of caring professionals and committed organizations.  Each alert draws stories from the world's press and from organizations on the front lines of the crisis, providing both community-level and international perspectives.
    Contact Information:
    Association François-Xavier Bagnoud (AFXB)
    Av. de la Gare 29
    1950 Sion
    Switzerland
    Telephone: +41 27 327 70 20   Fax: +41 27 327 70 21
    Email: info@afxb.org

  • Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI)
    http://www.alz.co.uk/
     This site is a good starting point for global information and networking possibilities around all the issues associated with Alzheimer's disease. ADI is an umbrella organisation of national Alzheimer Associations around the world whose main purpose is to improve the quality of life of people with dementia and their careers and to raise awareness of the disease. ADI is in official relations with the World Health Organization.
    Notable Feature(s): On-line, Global Perspective - Quarterly newsletter; free booklets on how to start an Alzheimer's Association (incl. Spanish version), how to influence public policy; fact sheets; global statistics; links.
    Contact Information:
    Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI)
    45 / 46 Lower Marsh
    London SE1 7RG
    UK
    Telephone: +44 20 7620 3011   Fax: +44 20 7401 7351
    Email: info@alz.co.uk

  • Aravind Eye Hospitals
    http://www.aravind.org
     Aravind Eye Hospitals are the expression of a vision quest, a response to the silent call of thousands who have lost their sight. Under the leadership of Dr. G. Venkataswamy, Aravind Eye Hospital was founded in Madurai in 1978 with the mission to eradicate needless blindness in Tamilnadu. Now in its 25th year, Aravind's innovative eye care delivery system is recognised as a model for other developing countries. Much importance is given to ensuring that all patients are accorded the same care and high quality service, regardless of their economic status. As a result of a unique fee system and effective management, Aravind is able to provide free eye care to two-thirds of its patients from the revenue generated from the other third off its paying patients. Aravind follows the principle that large volume, high quality service result in low cost and self-sustainability. Aravind's network of hospitals has the distinction of being the most productive eye care organisation in the world, in terms of surgical volume and the number of patients treated. With less than one percent of the country's ophthalmic manpower, Aravind performs about five percent of all cataract surgeries in India.
    Notable Feature(s): Fast Company magazine article on Dr. V, the founder of the Aravind Hospital; background information on Aurolab, the manufacturing division of Aravind Eye Care System, founded with help from David Greeen with the mission of supplying high quality ophthalmic consumables at prices affordable to the common person in the developing countries. Since its inception in 1992, as a nonprofit charitable trust, Aurolab has set up manufacturing facilities to produce intraocular lenses (IOLs), suture needles, pharmaceuticals and spectacle lenses. The international organisations that actively participated in developing the various activities in Aurolab include Seva Foundation, USA, Sight Savers International, UK, Combat Blindness Foundation, USA, Seva Service Society, Canada, CBM International, Germany, CIDA, Canada, Al-Noor Foundation, Saudi Arabia. Aurolab products are primarily supplied to nonprofit eye care programmes at affordable prices.
    Contact Information:
    Aravind Eye Hospital
    1, Anna Nagar
    Madurai - 625 020, Tamilnadu
    India
    Telephone: (0452) 532653   Fax: 91-452-530984
    Email: aravind@aravind.org

  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm
     The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is building upon the unprecedented opportunities of the 21st century to improve equity in global health and learning—because the life and potential of a child born in one place is as valuable as that in another.
    The last few decades of the 20th century brought an incredible burst of innovation, particularly in medical science and information technology. But many of those innovations have yet to reach people living in poverty. The central challenge of the decades ahead will be to share lifesaving advances such as vaccines and new medicines, as well as the benefits of the revolution in information technology, with those who need them most.
    The primary goal of the foundation's global health grants is to reduce what Dr. William Foege, senior health adviser, calls the "unconscionable disparity" that exists between the way that we live and the way that the people of the developing world live.
    Improving health is key to reaching other development goals, such as reducing poverty. Some worry that by reducing the burdens and deaths caused by disease we may be inadvertently contributing to another serious problem: rapid population growth and high fertility. Actually, the reverse is true. Studies show that mothers voluntarily limit the number of children they have when they have confidence that existing children will survive.
    Notable Feature(s): From the New York Times, July 2003, a comprehensive report on the foundation's work and its innovative, systems-changing approach to philanthropy.
    Contact Information:
    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    P.O. Box 23350
    Seattle, WA   98102
    USA
    Telephone: 206.709.3140  
    Email: info@gatesfoundation.org

  • bmj.com: The general medical journal website
    http://bmj.com/
     BMJ used to stand for the British Medical Journal, now it is a valuable site for medical research and news. The BMJ aims to publish rigorous, accessible and entertaining material that will help doctors and medical students in their daily practice, lifelong learning and career development. In addition, it seeks to be at the forefront of the international debate on health. To achieve these aims BMJ publishes original scientific studies, review and educational articles, and papers commenting on the clinical, scientific, social, political, and economic factors affecting health.
    Notable Feature(s): Vast collections of articles by medical specialty and topic; customized alerts about new articles; updated materials on HIV/AIDS.
    Contact Information:
    Tony Delamothe
    BMJ Publishing Group
    BMA House
    Tavistock Square
    London WC1H 9JR
    United Kingdom
    Telephone: +44(0) 20 7383 6006   Fax: +44(0) 20 7383 6418
    Email: webmaster@bmj.com

  • Center for Victims of Torture (CVT)
    http://www.cvt.org/main.php
     The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) exists to heal the wounds of government-sponsored torture on individuals, their families and their communities, and to stop its practice. As many as 500,000 torture survivors are living in the United States. These individuals were brutalized by repressive regimes abroad because of what they believed, what they said or did, or what they represented. Many survivors, their families, and their communities suffer the lingering, debilitating effects of their horrific traumas in silence.
    CVT has pioneered a comprehensive assessment and care program that is unique in this country. In recent years, CVT has expanded its services to include research, training and public policy initiatives in order to develop strategies for abolishing torture worldwide. CVT has helped torture survivors from more than 60 countries heal and rebuild their lives.
    The Center for Victims of Torture began with a conversation between an Amnesty International volunteer at Stanford Law School, Rudy Perpich, Jr., and his father, then Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich. In the end, the governor promised his son he would use his position to act on behalf of the struggle for international human rights.
    The governor sought ideas from local leaders in human rights, including Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights (then known as the Minnesota Lawyers International Human Rights Committee), and David Weissbrodt, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and an expert in international human rights law. Together they presented Governor Perpich with ten ideas for action – the most ambitious being the establishment of the first treatment center in the United States for victims of torture. Governor Perpich embraced the idea and began to act. He went to Copenhagen, Denmark, to visit the first treatment center in the world, the Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims, and appointed a task force to determine whether such a center would be feasible in Minnesota. The Center for Victims of Torture was founded in May 1985 as an independent, nongovernmental organization. For the first two years, care was provided at the International Clinic of St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center. In time, staff recommended that CVT move to a more home-like, less institutional setting that would be less intimidating for clients where the design and atmosphere generate trust, conversation, listening, and healing.
    Notable Feature(s): Training resources, research, and other materials useful in helping victims of torture and in developing programs for such work in the United States and around the world; text of Congressional testimony urging more attention by the U.S. to global torture and its impacts on individuals, nations, and efforts to bring democracy and freedom to all cultures and communities that want them.
    Contact Information:
    Douglas A. Johnson, Executive Director
    Center for Victims of Torture
    717 East River Road
    Minneapolis, MN   55455
    USA
    Telephone: 612.436.4800   Fax: 612.436.2600
    Email: cvt@cvt.org

  • Centers for Disease Control - Prevention Information
    http://www.cdcnpin.org/
     Contact Information:
    CDC NPIN
    P.O. Box 6003
    Rockville, MD   20849-6003
    USA
    Telephone: 1-301-562-1098   Fax: 1-301-562-1050
    Email: info@cdcnpin.org

  • CHANGE Project
    http://www.changeproject.org/
     The CHANGE Project helps make programs more effective by developing and applying practical solutions to behavior change problems relevant to health and nutrition. The project's ultimate objective is to increase the impact, sustainability, scale, and cost-effectiveness of health interventions worldwide.
    Notable Feature(s): Full-text report:Mapping Competencies for Development and Social Change: Turning Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes into Action; Tools & Approaches for Planning, Intervention, Evaluation, and Maintenance; numerous reports on family planning, maternal health and reproduction, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, communications, and more.
    Contact Information:
    Academy for Educational Development
    CHANGE Project
    1875 Connecticut Ave., NW
    Washington, D.C.   20009-5721
    USA
    Telephone: 202.884.8000   Fax: 202.884.8454
    Email: changeinfo@aed.org

  • Children's Vaccine Program
    http://www.childrensvaccine.org/
     http://www.childrensvaccine.org/homepage.htm
     The Bill and Melinda Gates Children's Vaccine Program believes that it is a human right and a moral obligation that all of the world's children should have equal and timely access to new, life-saving vaccines. The Program initially is focusing on vaccines that protect children against respiratory, diarrheal, and liver disease. Global use of these vaccines will reduce childhood deaths by 33% and reduce liver cancer deaths by 75%.
    Most CVP activities are carried out by our partners including the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, nongovernmental organizations, and national governments. CVP is a founding member of GAVI, the new global alliance whose mission we share.
    Notable Feature(s): Information resources on immunization and vaccines, material for parents and teens, clinical issues, health care professionals, conferences.
    Contact Information:
    Bill and Melinda Gates Children's Vaccine Program
    PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health)
    4 Nickerson Street
    Seattle, Washington   98109-1699
    USA
    Telephone: 206.285.3500   Fax: 206.285.6619
    Email: info@childrensvaccine.org

  • Directory of Links to Reproductive Health Programs and Analysis

  • Disaster Mental Health: Dealing with the Aftereffects of Terrorism
    http://www.ncptsd.org/disaster.html
     http://www.ncptsd.org/index.html
     The National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) offers here an extensive collection of organizational and helping resources for survivors of disaster and terrorism and for those experiencing post traumatic stress reactions.
    Notable Feature(s): Information about how children of different ages respond to trauma, how to talk to children about terrorism, what parents can do, and how many children develop PTSD; specific information and tools for survivors, veterans, volunteers, journalists and clinicians, and others working with survivors.
    Contact Information:
    National Center for PTSD
    VA Medical Center (116D)
    White River Junction, VT   05009
    USA
    Telephone: 802.296.5132   Fax: 802.296.5135
    Email: ncptsd@ncptsd.org
    ptsd@dartmouth.edu

  • Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
    http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/
     http://www.msf.org/
     Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is the world's largest independent international medical relief agency aiding victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and others who lack health care due to geographic remoteness or ethnic marginalization. Annually, more than 2,000 volunteers representing 45 nationalities work in over 80 countries in front-line hospitals, refugee camps, disaster sites, towns, and villages. Doctors Without Borders teams provide primary health care, perform surgery, vaccinate children, rehabilitate hospitals, operate emergency nutrition and sanitation programs, and train local medical staff.
    Contact Information:
    Doctors Without Borders
    6 East 39th Street, 8th Floor
    New York, NY   10016
    USA
    Telephone: 212.679.6800   Fax: 212.679.7016
    Email: doctors@newyork.msf.org

  • Equinet - Health & Human Rights in Southern Africa
    http://www.equinet.org.zw/
     http://www.equinet.org.zw/info1.html
     The Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) is a network of research, civil society and health sector organisations working towards and influencing equity in health in Southern Africa. EQUINET aims to build an enhanced focus, information and informed debate on equity in health in Southern Africa leading to positive policies towards equity in health from the local to regional levels.
    Notable Feature(s): Excellent set of Africa health links; researching libraries online; bibliographies; specific materials on children, HIV/AIDS, malaria, reproductive health; nursing and related healthcare Web resources; An Agenda for Action on Equity in Health - Policies for Survival in Southern Africa .
    Contact Information:
    R. Loewenson, Coordinator, Equinet
    TARSC, 47 Van Praagh Ave, Milton Park
    Harare
    Zimbabwe
    Telephone: 263-4-708835   Fax: 263-4-737220
    Email: rloewenson@healthnet.zw

  • Fuel for the Body, Fuel for Life - by Elyane Clift
    http://www.paho.org/english/DPImag/Number3/dpi3article2.htm

  • Global Health Council
    http://www.globalhealth.org/
     The Global Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to improving health worldwide. The Council believes global health is the cornerstone in the foundation of our globalized world. The Council is an umbrella organization composed of professionals in the health-care field, non-governmental and governmental organizations, academic institutions, foundations and corporations. The Global Health Council, formerly the National Institute of International Health, is a US-based, nonprofit membership organization that was created 27 years ago to identify priority world health problems and to report on them to the US public, Congress, international and domestic government agencies, academic institutions and the global health community.
    Notable Feature(s): News from around the world updated regularly; field reports; global AIDS/HIV advocacy; small grant program; extensive links.
    Contact Information:
    Global Health Council
    1701 K Street, NW
    Suite 600
    Washington, DC   20006-1503
    USA
    Telephone: 202.833.5900   Fax: 202.833.0075
    Email: ghc@globalhealth.org
    advocacy@globalhealth.org
    aids@globalhealth.org

  • Global Tobacco Control
    http://www.apha.org/wfpha/tob.htm
     http://www.apha.org/
     With an estimated one-third of the world's population aged 15 and above smoking regularly, the negative health consequences of tobacco use are now reaching proportions of a devastating global epidemic. Tobacco, a known or probable cause of some 25 diseases, is responsible for one death every ten seconds worldwide, killing nearly 3.5 million people each year. Tobacco use today accounts for over 6% of all deaths in the world. These figures are rising rapidly, with a predicted 10 million deaths annually by the year 2025. It is expected that within the next century, tobacco use will take a greater claim on human health than any single disease.
    Notable Feature(s): Access American Journal of Public Health.
    Contact Information:
    APHA
    800 I (Eye) Street, NW
    Washington, DC   20001
    USA
    Telephone: 202.777.APHA   Fax: 202.777.2534
    Email: comments@apha.org

  • Gonoshasthaya Kendra, or People's Health Clinic - Bangladesh
    http://www.rmaf.org.ph/RMAFWeb/Documents/Awardee/Citation/zc_01cit.htm
     http://www.healthdevelopment.org/hphc/gonoshastha.htm
     Because of the high cost of imported medicine, Dr. Zafrullag Chowdhury founded Gonoshasthaya Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., to manufacture cheaper generic drugs. Although more than 4,000 commercial drugs were for sale in the country, including some that were unnecessary and others that were dangerous, some 150 of the most essential were in short supply. The government responded in April 1982 by establishing a committee of experts, including CHOWDHURY, to seek a countrywide solution. The committee recommended restricting manufacture and import to roughly the 225 essential drugs on the list compiled by the World Health Organization for developing countries. Despite protests from drug manufacturers abroad, this policy has been pursued. The result has been wider availability of essential drugs at lower prices, and less confusion among laymen.
    Contact Information:
    Zafrullah Chowdhury
    GONOSHASTHAYA KENDRA
    Via Dhamrai
    P.O. Box Nayarhat
    Dhaka District
    Bangladesh

  • Health and Human Rights Database
    http://www.glphr.org/inetdb.htm
     An excellent gateway to information and organizations useful to global lawyers and physicians working for human rights. Global Lawyers and Physicians' mission is to work at the local, national, and international levels through collaboration and partnerships with individuals, NGOs, IGOs, and governments on issues such as the global implementation of the health-related provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, with a focus on health and human rights, patient rights, and human experimentation.
    Contact Information:
    Adrianne Head
    Boston University School of Public Health
    Email: glp@bu.edu

  • Health on the Net
    http://www.hon.ch/
     Contact Information:
    Health On the Net Foundation c/o Medic
    University Hospital of Geneva
    Geneva 14   1211
    Switzerland
    Telephone: +41 22 372 61 81   Fax: +41 22 372 61 98
    Email: Info@hon.ch

  • Healthfinder
    http://www.healthfinder.gov/
     Contact Information:
    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
    Washington, DC   20201
    USA
    Telephone: 202.619.0257  
    Email: hhsmail@os.dhhs.gov

  • Healthlink Worldwide
    http://www.healthlink.org.uk
     Healthlink Worldwide works to improve the health of poor and vulnerable communities by strengthening the provision, use and impact of information. Special emphasis on particular needs in primary health care: child health, disability, continuing education for health workers, AIDS and sexual health, and the Middle East.
    Notable Feature(s): Numerous publications, newsletters, and resources, including Healthlink On-line, Healthlink Worldwide's bibliographic database that provides unique access to more than 16,000 records of materials focusing on the management and practice of primary health care and disability in developing countries. Up to 100 new records are added each month. Materials include books, manuals, journal articles, training materials and reports held in Healthlink Worldwide's resource centre. Many materials are published in developing countries or are not published and are not referenced in other health-related databases.
    The Healthlink Worldwide database is now available free and can be searched from the Web site. To register for this service send an e-mail to obtain a user name and password.
    Contact Information:
    Victoria Richardson
    Information Systems Officer
    Healthlink Worldwide
    Cityside, 40 Adler Street
    London   E1 1EE
    UK
    Telephone: +44 20 7539 1570   Fax: +44 20 7539 1580
    Email: info@healthlink.org.uk
    richardson.v@healthlink.org.uk

  • Healthnet
    http://www.healthnet.org/
     http://www.healthnet.org/index2.php
     HealthNet is SATELLIFE's computer-based telecommunications system that links health care professionals around the world and to each other. SATELLIFE focuses its attention on developing countries, where telecommunication systems are often unreliable or nonexistent, and where cost or distance limits access to medical literature and other health information. For people living in those areas where such conditions exist, HealthNet provides access to the latest health information, e-mail connectivity, electronic conferencing, and other services tailored to meet current demands.
    HealthNet is also a system of people. HealthNet communication and information services are used by approximately 19,500 health care workers in more than 150 countries worldwide.
    Notable Feature(s): Excellent network of contacts in Africa, Asia, Central America and South America; telemedicine and other links.
    Contact Information:
    Holly Ladd, Executive Director
    SATELLIFE
    30 California Street
    Watertown, Massachusetts   02472
    USA
    Telephone: 617.926.9400   Fax: 617.926.1212
    Email: hnet@healthnet.org

  • Hesperian Foundation
    http://www.hesperian.org/
     The Hesperian Foundation is a nonprofit publisher of books and newsletters for community-based health care. Hesperian's first book, Where There Is No Doctor, is considered to be one of the most accessible and widely used community health books in the world. Translated into over 90 languages, Where There Is No Doctor is considered the most accessible and widely used community health care manual in the world. This revolutionary health care "bible" has saved millions of lives around the world by providing vital information on diagnosing and treating common medical problems and diseases, and giving special emphasis to prevention. The book also includes sections detailing effective examination techniques, home cures, correct usage of medicines and their precautions, nutrition, caring for children, ailments of older individuals and first aid.
    Notable Feature(s): Useful and free newsletters, including The Women's Health Exchange (published in English) and ¡Saludos! (published in Spanish), for education and training in women's health; links.
    Contact Information:
    The Hesperian Foundation
    1919 Addison St
    Suite 304
    Berkeley, CA   94704
    USA
    Telephone: 510.845.1447   Fax: 510.845.9141
    Email: hesperian@hesperian.org

  • Institute for OneWorld Health
    http://www.oneworldhealth.org/
     The Institute for OneWorld Health advances global health by developing new medicines for infectious diseases that disproportionately affect the developing world. Launched in 2000, the Institute for OneWorld Health is the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company formed in the United States to bridge the gap between medical science and its application to the urgent health needs of the developing world and the poor. Using an entrepreneurial business model, OneWorld Health fuses the rigors of pharmaceutical science with the dedication of a social mission. Alone, no single group has the resources to carry basic scientific research forward through product development for infectious diseases in the developing world. OneWorld Health partners strategically with the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, universities, government agencies, and global health advocates to develop and deliver new medicines for the developing world.
    Notable Feature(s): Global Health resources; OneWorld Health programs around the world; useful geographical overview maps with target disease information for the specific locations; OneWorld Health in news about different drugs, business enterprises and initiatives, cure progress, funding activity and more; press release reporting on the Schwab Foundation's 2004 "outstanding social entrepreneur" award to Victoria Hale, OneWorld Health founder.
    Contact Information:
    Victoria Hale, Founder and CEO
    The Institute for OneWorld Health
    580 California Street
    Suite 900
    San Francisco, CA   94104
    USA
    Telephone: 415.421.4700   Fax: 415.421.4747
    Email: info@oneworldhealth.org

  • International Clearinghouse of Health System Reform Initiatives
    http://www.insp.mx/ichsri/
     Contact Information:
    Miguel A. Gonzalez-Block / Fundacion Mex
    Perferico sure 4809
    Colonia El Arenal, Tepepan
    14610 Mexico, D.F
    Mexico
    Telephone: (52-5)655-9011   Fax: (52-5)655-8211
    Email: Block@funsalud.org.mx

  • International Women's Health Coalition
    http://www.iwhc.org/
     Contact Information:
    International Women's Health Coalition
    24 East 21 Street
    New York, NY   10010
    USA
    Email: info@iwhc.org

  • Internet Resource for Special Children (IRSC)
    http://www.irsc.org:8080/irsc/irscmain.nsf
     The IRSC Web site is dedicated to children with disabilities and other health related disorders worldwide. Its mission is to improve the lives of these children by:
    • Providing valuable information to parents, family members, caregivers, friends, educators, and medical professionals who provide them services and support
    • Creating positive changes and enhancing public awareness and knowledge of children with disabilities and other health related disorders
    • Providing Online Communities - a place where one can ask questions or connect with other people who may have the same questions, thoughts, and/or experiences.

    Notable Feature(s): Vast number of links and other resources on various disabilities, health care issues, neurological disorders, brain injuries, laws, rehabilitation, news media and statistics, special education, and more.
    Contact Information:
    Julio G. Ciamarra
    Email: julio_c@one.net

  • IPS - Health News
    http://www.ipsnews.net/health.asp
     http://www.ipsnews.net/index.asp
     This online source of up-to-date and breaking health news from around the world is from IPS - Inter Press Service News Agency, the world's leading provider of information on global issues, backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries. IPS clients include more than 3,000 media organizations and tens of thousands of civil society groups, academics, and other users.
    Notable Feature(s): Email newsletter.
    Contact Information:
    Email: webmaster@ipsnews.net

  • Leading the Battle to End 'Hidden Hunger'
    http://www.idrc.ca/reports/read_article_english.cfm?article_num=150
     A briefing on micronutrient malnutrition and efforts to eradicate it.
    Contact Information:
    Raphael Kaplinsky
    The Institute of Development Studies at
    the University of Sussex
    Brighton, BN1 9RE
    United Kingdom
    Telephone: (44-1273) 606-261   Fax: (44-1273) 621-202
    Email: R.Kaplinsky@sussex.ac.uk

  • MedExplorer - Health and Medical Information Center
    http://www.medexplorer.com/
     Contact Information:
    Marlin Glaspey
    MedExplorer Inc.
    Suite 94
    #305 - 4625 Varsity Drive NW
    Calgary, Alberta   T3A 0Z9
    Canada
    Telephone: (403) 282-2520   Fax: (403) 202-2531

  • Media/Materials Clearinghouse (M/MC)
    Http://www.jhuccp.org/mmc/
     The M/MC is part of the Johns Hopkins Population Information Program, which is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development to provide health professionals with information and materials that enable them better to meet the need for health care services. The M/MC is part of the National Prevention Information Network, the U.S. reference, referral, and distribution service for information and materials on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, and Tuberculosis, sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Notable Feature(s): Photos and videos for nonprofit use; online publications; health communication database; links and other information resources.
    Contact Information:
    Media/Materials Clearinghouse
    111 Market Place, Suite 310
    Baltimore, MD   21202
    USA
    Telephone: (410)659.6300   Fax: (410)659.6266
    Email: mmc@jhuccp.org

  • Medical/Health Sciences Libraries on the Internet
    http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/hslibs.html
     Contact Information:
    Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus of Yeshiva University
    1300 Morris Park Avenue
    Bronx, N.Y   10461
    USA

  • MEDLINEplus
    http://www.medlineplus.com/
     A service of the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health, USA, a virtual gold mine of health information from the world's largest medical library.
    Contact Information:
    U.S. National Library of Medicine
    8600 Rockville Pike
    Bethesda, MD   20894
    USA

  • MedPlant - Medicinal Plants Network
    http://source.bellanet.org/medplantnet/
     MedPlant is a relatively new initiative that emerged out of a recognition that few mechanisms exists to allow organizations and agencies working on medicinal plant issues, to share information on their activities, their successes and challenges. Although several regional initiatives exist, there is an expressed need for an international network that would allow existing regional networks to maintain their regional identity while sharing their experiences and learning from lessons of other agencies/individuals around the world. MedPlant is a response to these needs, and is made up of a diverse group of actors working on medicinal plants. The network is currently housed in Canada at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) with technical support from Bellanet.
    Notable Feature(s): Extensive resources, including best practices, case studies, on-line databases, conference proceedings, and other publications, news, and forums for global interaction.
    Contact Information:
    Rolie Srivastava, Project Co-ordinator, Medicinal Plants
    International Development Research Centre
    250 Albert Street
    PO Box 8500
    Ottawa, Ontario K1G 3H9
    Canada
    Telephone: 416.979.1443  
    Email: rolie@sympatico.ca

  • Merck Manual - Home Edition
    http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home/content.htm
     The classic and authoritative handbook of medical information for non-medical professionals.

  • National Center for Drug Addiction and Substance Abuse
    http://www.casacolumbia.org/
     Contact Information:
    The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
    Columbia University
    152 West 57th Street, 12th Floor
    New York, NY   10019-3310
    USA
    Telephone: (212) 841-5200   Fax: (212) 956-8020

  • Nutrition Navigator
    http://www.navigator.tufts.edu
     http://healthletter.tufts.edu.
     The Tufts University Nutrition Navigator is the first online rating and review guide that solves the two major problems Web users have when seeking nutrition information: how to quickly find information best suited to their needs and whether to trust the information they find there. The Tufts University Nutrition Navigator is designed to help one sort through the large volume of nutrition information on the Internet and find accurate, useful, and trustworthy nutrition information.
    Notable Feature(s): Material geared to health professionals, journalists, kids, educators, women; Hot Topics; special dietary needs.
    Contact Information:
    Tufts University School of Nutrition Science and Policy
    126 Curtis St.
    Medford, MA   02155
    USA
    Telephone: (617) 627-6223   Fax: (617) 627-3688
    Email: David.Hastings@tufts.edu

  • Online Course in Infection Prevention
    http://www.engenderhealth.org/ip/
     http://www.engenderhealth.org/
     From the organization EngenderHealth comes this course designed to help health care providers, supervisors of health care facilities, medical students, and nursing students strengthen infection prevention practices in low-resource settings.
    Contact Information:
    EngenderHealth
    440 Ninth Avenue
    New York, New York   10001
    USA
    Telephone: 212.561.8538  
    Email: csvingen@engenderhealth.org

  • Pan American World Health Organization
    http://www.paho.org/english/techmap.htm
     Contact Information:
    Daniel Betbeder
    525 Twenty-third Street, N.W.
    Washington, D.C   20037
    USA
    Telephone: (202) 974-3358   Fax: (202) 223-5971
    Email: betbeded@paho.org

  • Perspectives in Health - Pan American Health Organization
    http://www.paho.org/english/DPImag/Number5/index.htm
     This site provide access to useful articles on matter of current concern.
    Contact Information:
    PAHO
    525 Twenty-third Street, N.W.
    Washington, D.C.   20037
    USA
    Telephone: (202) 861-3200   Fax: (202) 223-5971

  • Population Information Program (PIP) from Johns Hopkins University
    http://www.jhuccp.org/pr/
     This site offers authoritative information on a wide range of matters of interest to anyone involved with population policy or practice. Press releases detail various population initiatives and imperatives around the world.
    Notable Feature(s): Access to Population Reports designed to provide an accurate overview of important developments in family planning and related health issues. Forthcoming topics include: Oral Contraceptives: An Update; What Difference Does Family Planning: Make?; Safe Motherhood; Violence Against Women. A number of issues are slated for translation: 1.Meeting the Needs of Young Adults (Portuguese, Series J) (Number 41) 2.Family Planning Methods: New Guidance (Spanish) (Series J, Number 44) 3.Solutions for a Water-Short World (French and Spanish) (Series M, Number 14) 4.Reproductive Health Care: New Thinking About Men (French and Spanish) (Series J, Number 46) 5.Family Planning Programs: Improving Quality (French and Spanish) (Series J, Number 47) 6.GATHER Guide To Counseling (French and Spanish) (Series J, Number 48)
    Contact Information:
    Population Information Program
    The Center for Communication Programs
    Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health
    111 Market Place, Suite 310
    Baltimore, MD   21202-4024
    USA
    Telephone: 410.659.6300   Fax: 410.659.6266
    Email: Poprepts@jhuccp.org

  • PowerFlour Action Network - nutrition for infants in the world's developing countries
    http://www.powerflour.org/
     http://www.powerflour.org/default.htm
     Each year in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, 14 million infants perish due to malnutrition and related disorders. A significant factor contributing to this unfortunate situation which constitutes the gravest emergency facing children today, is the mothers' inability to find liquid foods for weaning their babies. Weaning foods must be liquid to be effective. Babies reared on mother's milk can suck or drink, but have difficulty swallowing solids.
    a technique that is potentially effective for feeding those children at highest risk: the ones born to the poorest of the poor, the ones whose mothers are themselves badly malnourished, and the weanling orphans with no mothers at all. The new technique is notably promising for use in remote locations, in times of need, and in the aftermath of natural or man-made disasters. It can thus reach the populations where mortality from malnutrition is greatest. It complements breast feeding and makes the weaning process more successful for the most threatened individuals in locations where milk and baby formula are unavailable.
    The prime "tool" in this new technique is food-grade malted barely. This white powder is nothing more than ground-up sprouted barley grains. It is a flavoring ingredient in malted milk, corn flakes, Grape Nuts, Wonder bread, English muffins, pizza crusts, Milky Way bars and many more foods. The United States produces thousands of tons of it annually, but little is now used to help starving babies survive.
    In this project, PowerFlour Network is bringing to world attention a technique that is potentially effective for feeding those children at highest risk: the ones born to the poorest of the poor, the ones whose mothers are themselves badly malnourished, and the weanling orphans with no mothers at all. The new technique is notably promising for use in remote locations, in times of need, and in the aftermath of natural or man-made disasters. It can thus reach the populations where mortality from malnutrition is greatest. It complements breast feeding and makes the weaning process more successful for the most threatened individuals in locations where milk and baby formula are unavailable.
    PowerFlour would be employed solely to turn a portion of the family food staple into a form babies can be nourished with. Children have difficulty swallowing corn mush, rice, potato, sorghum, and dozens of other "solids." PowerFlour converts these boiled staples into liquids to be drunk. In other words, solids that infants struggle to ingest become suddenly easy to handle with a baby's natural born instincts.
    Contact Information:
    PowerFlour Action Network
    P.O. Box 503
    Sheboygan, Wisconsin   53082-0503
    USA
    Email: powerflour@briess.com

  • Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO)
    http://www.rho.org/
     http://path.org/index.htm
     The Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO) Web site provides up-to-date summaries of research findings, program experience, and clinical guidelines related to key reproductive health topics, as well as analyses of policy and program implications. An important objective of RHO is to help users link with quality online resources and collaborate with colleagues around the world. RHO is published by PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health). It follows the World Health Organization (WHO) definition of reproductive health , as defined at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo. Like its companion print publication, Outlook, RHO presents key research findings and program information related to a variety of reproductive health issues.
    RHO provides in-depth information on 12 reproductive health topics (including HIV/AIDS, Gender and Sexual Health, Safe Motherhood, and Infertility), and is designed for program managers and researchers in developing countries and other low-resource settings.
    Notable Feature(s): Extensive news and topical resources; worldwide program descriptions of work in Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean, Asia and SE Asia, the Middle East, the former Soviet States and Eastern Europe.
    Contact Information:
    Jacqueline Sherris, Editorial Director, RHO
    PATH
    4 Nickerson Street
    Seattle, Washington   98109-1699
    USA
    Telephone: 206.285.3500   Fax: 206.285.6619
    Email: rho@path.org

  • SIECUS - Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
    http://www.siecus.org/index.html
     The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS) is a national, nonprofit organization that affirms that sexuality is a natural and healthy part of living. Incorporated in 1964, SIECUS develops, collects, and disseminates information, promotes comprehensive education about sexuality, and advocates the right of individuals to make responsible sexual choices.
    Notable Feature(s): An extensive collection of publications on innovative programs of community action, education, and training; international focus; archived tables of content for SIECUS Report; useful collection of links of other pertinent organizations and information.
    Contact Information:
    SIECUS NY Office
    130 West 42nd Street, Suite 350
    New York, NY   10036-7802
    USA
    Telephone: 212.819.9770   Fax: 212.819.9776
    Email: siecus@siecus.org

  • Sound Partners for Community Health
    http://www.soundpartners.org/
     Sound Partners for Community Health is a competitive national grant program for public radio stations. It is a program of the Benton Foundation, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. These foundations share the belief that broadcasters can help equip people to participate in community problem-solving. Grants are awarded to public radio stations submitting proposals that demonstrate how community-centered journalism can positively affect the ways in which local health care issues are addressed. Short-term projects may receive as much as $15,000; long-term projects may receive up to $35,000.
    Notable Feature(s): Focus on children's health, youth substance abuse, end of life decisions, health care safety net, and the aging and chronically ill; newsletter.
    For more information contact:
    Mark Sachs Co-Director
    Sound Partners for Community Health
    8730 Georgia Avenue, Suite 408
    Silver Spring, MD 20910
    Tel: 301-565-0805 Fax: 301-565-0808
    E-mail: markasachs@aol.com
    Contact Information:
    Anne Green
    Director, Capacity Building Program
    Benton Foundation
    1625 K Street, NW
    Washington, DC   20006
    USA
    Telephone: 202.638.5770   Fax: 202.638.5771
    Email: whitney@benton.org

  • TARSHI
    http://www.tarshi.org/
     TARSHI stands for Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues. TARSHI is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in New Delhi, India, registered under the Societies Registration Act. The organization permits open, non-judgmental talk about the body, sexual behaviour and feelings, pleasure enhancement, contraceptive, infections including STDs and HIV/AIDS, safer sex practices, lesbian, gay and bisexual issues, sexual abuse issues, and so on. It operates through a telephone helpline, publications, and other awareness-raising activities.
    Notable Feature(s): Links to other related NGOs.
    Contact Information:
    Email: contacttarshi@tarshi.org

  • Telemedicine Meets the Global Village - Daniel Epstein and Richard L. Vernaci
    http://www.paho.org/english/DPImag/Number5/article2.htm
     Contact Information:
    Perspectives in Health
    Office of Public Information (DPI)
    Pan America Health Organization
    525 Twenty-third Street, N.W.
    Washington, D.C.   20037
    USA Fax: 202-974-3143
    Email: okeyrobe@paho.org

  • The Population Council
    http://www.popcouncil.org/
     The Population Council is an international organization, with headquarters in New York City near the United Nations, and regional and country offices throughout the developing world. The Council's International Programs Division (IPD) collaborates with governments, nongovernmental organizations, and scientific institutions in developing countries to design and implement population policies, improve delivery of reproductive health and family planning services, enhance understanding of the determinants of reproductive behavior, and encourage greater attention to gender and partnership issues.
    Notable Feature(s): Critical areas of research; useful collection of publications; on-line access to Populations Briefs.
    Contact Information:
    The Population Council
    New York Headquarters
    One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
    New York, NY   10017
    USA
    Telephone: 212.339.0500   Fax: 212.755.6052
    Email: pubinfo@popcouncil.org

  • Toward a Latin American Health Information Infrastructure
    http://www.pitt.edu/HOME/GHNet/homes/latinamer/servers.html
     This is a useful directory of health and medical information sites and facilities based throughout Latin America. It includes universities, clinics, government agencies, and NGOs
    Notable Feature(s): Spanish version available.

  • UNESCO Bioethics Committee
    http://www.unesco.org/ibc/
     Contact Information:
    Bioethics Unit
    1, rue Miollis
    75 732 Cedex 15
    Paris
    France
    Telephone: 33 (0)1 45 68 38 58   Fax: 33 (0)1 45 68 55 15

  • World Health News
    http://www.worldhealthnews.harvard.edu/
     This Web site is a comprehensive news digest from the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health. The valuable service covers critical public health issues worldwide. It is designed to be a resource for international policy makers and journalists as well as public health researchers, practitioners, and advocates.
    Contact Information:
    World Health News
    Center for Health Communication
    Harvard School of Public Health
    677 Huntington Ave
    Boston, MA   02115
    USA
    Telephone: 617.432.1038   Fax: 617.731.8184
    Email: editor@worldhealthnews.hsph.harvard.edu

  • World Health Organization (WHO)
    http://www.who.int/home-page/
     This is the official home portal for the comprehensive and up-to-date site of world health information, news, programs and research.
    Notable Feature(s): Information resources; Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
    Contact Information:
    The World Health Organization
    Avenue Appia 20
    1211 Geneva 27
    Switzerland
    Telephone: (+00 41 22) 791 21 1   Fax: (+00 41 22) 791 3111
    Email: info@who.int
    library@who.int

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