A collaboration between Eldis and the Health Systems Resource Centre providing access to the latest and most relevant knowledge on health systems selected from practitioner and research networks on and off the web. Current topic areas include health, poverty and vulnerability, priority diseases, aid policy and financing mechanisms, global initiatives and PPPs, access to medicines, and health service delivery.
Useful Resources
HIV and AIDS Treatment In Practice: a new e-mail newsletter
'HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice' is an email newsletter for doctors, nurses, other health care workers and community treatment advocates working in limited-resource settings. The newsletter is published by NAM, the UK-based HIV information charity behind www.aidsmap.com.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29657
HIVAN and KZNCAN Launch HIV/AIDS Directory
In their ongoing effort to support and strengthen community initiatives to combat the HIV/AIDS crisis in KwaZulu-Natal, the Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) and the KwaZulu Natal Churches AIDS Network (KZNCAN), have collaborated to produce the HIVAN/KZNCAN 2003 HIV/AIDS Directory. With over 600 organisations listed, the Directory provides a comprehensive reference resource for HIV/AIDS-related research, intervention and service organisations working in the province.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29670
Intaids eForum structured discussion
It may be hard to believe, but the next International AIDS Conference (IAC) is only a little over a year away. The 15th IAC will be held in Bangkok in July 2004. Over the coming weeks, the Intaids eForum is hosting a series of structured discussions on the design, value and impact of the IACs. The discussion will coincide with upcoming planning meetings that will determine the priorities and organisation of the Bangkok conference in 2004. It will hopefully feed into decisions about the IAC2004 format, structure and content, and decisions about prioritisation and resource allocations among the various parts of the conference.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29675
Second edition of teaching-aids at low cost (TALC) health development CD-ROM launched
This CD-ROM is a free resource of material on subjects related to health and development. The CD-ROMs allow users to select, adapt and tailor materials to meet local needs and develop their own library of materials at very low or zero cost. Information on the CD-ROM can be downloaded, e-mailed or printed and freely reproduced and shared. The project is supported by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).
The HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse
The HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse collects recent research and documentation and is working to build interactive information sharing. In addition to finding the latest studies and research for HIV/AIDS and education, you can access related websites, participate in discussion forums and even contact members.
The People's Health Charter in 27 languages
Looking for a copy of the People's Health Charter? What language do you want? It's now available on the People's Health Movement website http://www.phmovement.org in 27 language versions - everything from Arabic to Urdu.
Gender and Health Equity Network
The Gender and Health Equity Network is a partnership of national and international institutions concerned with developing and implementing policies to improve gender and health equity, particularly in resource constrained environments.
Health Policy and Planning
Volume 18, Issue 1: March 2003
Included in this issue:
* Jonathan D Quick
Essential medicines twenty-five years on: closing the access gap, Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 1-3.
* Damian Walker
Cost and cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in developing countries: is there an evidence base? Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 4-17.
* David Ayuku, Wilson Odero, Charles Kaplan, Rene De Bruyn, and Marten De Vries
Social network analysis for health and social interventions among Kenyan scavenging street children, Health Policy Plan. 2003 18: 109-118.
PAHO Publications Available Online
PAHO has just launched a quick way for its readers to go straight to the source of what they are looking for in electronic format. They can now access one or more chapters of the organisation's most popular publications, such as Health in the Americas and Control of Communicable Diseases (Spanish version), among others, in a minimum of keystrokes. With this new service, readers can select only those chapters on the diseases that most interest them or select the chapter on a country for which they need the latest mortality or morbidity data.