Essential Health Links: Gateways Africa


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Africa: Health
Africa South of the Sahara: Health
Health Information and Health Organizations in Africa
MaghrebMed
Medical Teaching
Medilinks: The Gateway for Health Information in Africa
Resources on African Health and Disease)
SA HealthInfo: the South African Health Knowledge Network
WHO/AFRO Library
World Health Organization: Regional Office for Africa

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Africa: Health  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This American site provides annotated links to full-text reports and sites about African health issues. The resource is part of the University of Pennsylvania's 'Africa Web Links: an Annotated Resource List'. http://www.africa.upenn.edu/About_African/ww_heal.html

Africa South of the Sahara: Health  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This gateway focuses on healthcare issues in sub-Saharan Africa. It is maintained by Stanford University, U.S. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/health.html

Health Information and Health Organizations in Africa  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site is a gateway to African-related sites on travel health, health news, health research, UN agencies and WHO, conferences, bibliographies and indexes. It is maintained by the Department of African Studies, Columbia University, U.S. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/health.html

MaghrebMed  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (Arabic, French, English)
The site is a gateway to Internet resources for health professionals working in the Maghreb countries of North Africa. Links and resources are organized by medical specialty (eg paediatrics, obstetrics). It includes sections for nurses and allied health professionals, pharmacists, dentists, veterinarians, and the general public. The content is available in French (primary language), English and Arabic. The site is maintained by Promed Sante, a communications company based in Tunisia. http://www.maghrebmed.com.tn/

Medical Teaching (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Medical Teaching is an Internet gateway that has been produced for medical school tutors in Africa. The resources are arranged by subject and by type of resource (database, discussion list, teaching resource etc). The project is supported by the Wellcome Trust, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, UK. http://www.medicalteaching.org/

Medilinks: The Gateway for Health Information in Africa  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Medilinks is an online source of relevant, concise health related information for Africa. The site emphasizes current health information. It also contains regional and country based health statistics plus fact sheets on numerous diseases. http://medilinkz.org/index.asp

Resources on African Health and Disease  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site is an extensive gateway of annotated links. It is divided into health related diseases, organizations, and ministries and hospitals plus a current events/news section. The diseases section is divided into a series of tropical medicine and infectious diseases subpages. The site is maintained by the African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, U.S. http://www.africa.upenn.edu/health/diseases.htm

SA HealthInfo: the South African Health Knowledge Network (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site provides access to full text articles, journals and newsletters, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, nutrition, medical interventions, and traditional medicine. SA HealthInfo serves as a clearinghouse for health research in southern Africa. http://www.sahealthinfo.org/

WHO/AFRO Library   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (French, Portuguese)
The site describes the Library's programs, resources and facilities. It contains links to African health related databases and other regional WHO libraries. The information is also available in French and Portuguese. http://www.afro.who.int/library/index.html

World Health Organization: Regional Office for Africa  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (French)
This site provides information about the WHO Regional Office for Africa and its programmes, publications, conferences, and services. It is available in English and French. http://www.afro.who.int/


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Updated: 16 February 2008