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African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The African Malaria Network Trust started its activities as
African Malaria Vaccine Testing Network in 1995 with the
primary goal of preparing Africa in planning and conducting
malaria vaccine trials. Due to expanding goals in malaria
interventions, AMVTN was succeeded by AMANET in 2002 to
reflect a widened scope that incorporates a broad and
integrated approach in the fight against malaria. The site
contains news(letters), a meetings calendar and policy
documents, as well as information on members, grants,
projects and workshops.
http://www.amanet-trust.org/
Asian Collaborative Training Network for Malaria (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site specializes in malaria control activities in
Southeast Asia. It contains an extensive news module,
country-specific epidemiological profiles for Cambodia,
China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and
Vietnam, a plus information on training workshops, grants and
projects, a calendar for meetings, and a photo gallery. The
site also contains an
ActMalaria information
resource center that includes a regional bibliography.
http://www.actmalaria.net/home/
Impact Malaria (French)
This bilingual site is maintained and owned by the
pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis, and the information
contained on the Site "may contain direct or indirect
references to products, programmes and services of the
Sanofi-Aventis Group". The site stipulates that "No material
from the Site may be copied, reproduced, modified,
republished, uploaded, distorted, transmitted or distributed
in any way, on any support, in total or in part, without
Sanofi-Synthelabo Groupe's prior written consent, with the
exception of one single copy of the materials which you may
download on your personal computer for personal,
non-commercial home use only, provided you respect all
intellectual property rights and any other right which may be
mentioned." However, the information "is written and
validated by tropicalist experts" and the site is "intended
for health-care professionals practicing in endemic areas and
for general public residing in endemic areas". The site
contains malaria information for both the public and
healthcare professionals: news, parasitology, epidemiology,
education tools, and a electronic library with scientific
journal articles.
http://www.impact-malaria.com
Malaria Foundation International: Global Network Against Malaria (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
MFI facilitates the development and implementation of
solutions to the health, economic and social problems caused
by malaria. Their website provides links to the various
global networks against malaria. It also includes a directory
of malaria professionals, travel advice, and a calendar of
malaria conferences and events plus
'educational and basic information' that is useful for
patient education.
http://www.malaria.org/
Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Spanish)
The site includes information about the programme: achievements, news, events, projects, partnerships and funding opportunities. The site contains research organization acronyms, medical reference, internet-based resources, discussion groups, meeting/events and a database links sections and is in English and French. The initiative is a project of the U.S. National Libraries of Medicine.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mimcom/mimcomhomepage.html
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Malaria
This PubMed search will identify all malaria related free
fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within the
search results, there are links to the fulltext material. By
repeating this search periodically, you will find new
fulltext articles that are added to the PubMed database
weekly. Essential Health Links contains similar searches for
all subpages listed in the Specific Health Resources table of
contents.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28%22malaria%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20MALARIA%5BText%20Word%5D%29
Roll Back Malaria: A Global Partnership (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Spanish, Portuguese)
This is the website for the global initiative to cut by 50%
the world's malaria burden by 2010. It includes information
on the disease, technical strategies and capacity
development. The site contains links to full text articles
and current news, related websites and a series of useful PDF
'Information
Sheets' for patient education. It is available in
English, French, Spanish and partially Portuguese and
contains a keyword search engine. The site is maintained by
the World Health Organization.
http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/
SA HealthInfo: Malaria (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This module contains links to information (reports, articles,
newsletters) developed by the South African MRC's National
Malaria Research Programme. It also contains hyperlinks to
selected sources, including information for travellers to
southern Africa.
http://www.sahealthinfo.org/malaria/malaria.htm
SciDev.net: Malaria (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This is a malaria related resource maintained by SciDev.net,
a gateway that emphasizes news, views and information about
science, technology and the developing world. Directed by an
internationally based advisory panel, the dossier contains
summaries of relevant news articles, policy briefs and
opinion articles. It includes a combination of fulltext
articles and links to the full documents elsewhere on the
Internet.
http://www.scidev.net/en/health/malaria/
WHO Malaria: Diagnosis and Treatment (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This contains information from the WHO on the diagnosis, treatment, drug resistance, quality of antimalarial medicines and home management of malaria. Each broad topics links to the latest WHO documents and related documents. The documents are downloadable PDF files.
http://www.who.int/malaria/diagnosis_treatment/en/
WHO: Malaria (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site contains information on malaria plus related
websites.
http://www.who.int/topics/malaria/en/
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