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allAfrica.com: Health and Medical News PlusEldis: Health Resource Guide
HealthNet News
Medilinks: The Gateway for Health Information in Africa
RealhealthNews
Reuters Health Information Service
SciCentral.com: Health Sciences Research News
World Health News
World Health Organization: Disease Outbreak News
World Health Organization: World Health Reports
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allAfrica.com: Health and Medical News
Plus (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
(French)
This is a daily health bulletin gathered from African
correspondents and 60 national news agencies. It is organized
by date and category lists and contains numerous articles on
HIV/AIDS in Africa. The site is available in English and
French. http://allafrica.com/health/
Eldis: Health
Resource Guide (Focus on Low-Income
Countries)
The site is an annotated gateway that contains abstracts of
news articles, reports and policy papers from
non-governmental organizations and international
organizations in the health/development field. Each abstract
has a link to the fulltext document. The articles are
organized by topical, regional or keyword access. The site
contains a subject based links section and is a collaboration
between ELDIS (Institute of Development Studies) and the
Department for International Development, UK. http://www.eldis.org/health/index.htm
HealthNet
News (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
HealthNet News Publications contain recent, relevant, and
reliable health information taken from leading peer-reviewed
medical journals and international health organizations.
Newsletters are free-of-charge and are sent out via email.
The HNN newsletters address clinical issues, community
health, HIV/AIDS, and nursing. Many developing country health
care practitioners, researchers, librarians, and others use
HealthNet News as a convenient source of continuing medical
information. Due to contractual obligations with journal
publishers, permission to receive HealthNet News will only be
granted to developing country residents. 'HealthNet News' is
compiled by SatelLife, a non-profit organization based in
Boston, USA. http://healthnet.org/publications.php
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
RealhealthNews (Focus on
Low-Income Countries)
This site is a newsletter about ‘real evidence,
real research, and real interventions’ related
to health issues for the disadvantaged communities in the
world. It is a compilation of news releases, editorials and
interviews that are written by the staff. The newsletter was
launched in November 2004 as an independent e-magazine, with
a quarterly print version and is supported by the Global
Forum for Health Research.
http://www.globalforumhealth.org/realhealthnews/RealHealth.php
Reuters Health
Information Service (French, Portugese,
Spanish)
The site contains Reuters' daily compilation of news articles
for professionals and consumers. It includes weekly columns
and keyword access to recent articles. Registration is
required (free). http://www.reutershealth.com/en/index.html
SciCentral.com: Health Sciences Research
News
SciCentral contains summaries of current research news with
links to fulltext articles. It includes feature articles and
more than 40 'specialty gateway' sections . It also contains
links to conferences, journals, databases, jobs and products.
http://www.scicentral.com/H-02heal.html
World Health
News (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
World Health News is an online news digest from the Center
for Health Communication of the Harvard School of Public
Health, U.S. It includes original reporting and a digest of
news stories and commentaries from newspapers and magazines
worldwide. The site is designed for policy makers,
journalists, public health researchers, practitioners, and
advocates. http://www.worldhealthnews.harvard.edu/
World Health
Organization: Disease Outbreak News (Focus on
Low-Income Countries)
This site reports disease outbreaks that have been submitted
to the WHO's Communicable Disease Surveillance and Control
Committee. It is a tool to strengthen national and
international capacity in the surveillance and control of
communicable diseases. http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/
World Health
Organization: World Health Reports (Focus on
Low-Income Countries) French, Spanish)
The WHO World Health Reports are annual thematic reports
produced by WHO. The site includes access to the full text of
'World Health Report 2000 Health Systems: Improving
Performance'. The site contains links to previous reports,
the organization's press releases and other WHO resources. It
is available in English, Spanish and French. http://www.who.int/whr/
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Updated: 29 February 2008