This site describes the work of an African-based organization formed in 1995. Besides a description of the programme, the site includes details about projects and clinical and programs and public health operations to control this disease. http://www.who.int/apoc/en/ This is the site for the French language association of parasitology and mycology teachers and practitioners. Information on the association, meetings, reference centers, education, and available documentary resources. It is maintained by the Association des enseignants et des praticiens hospitaliers titulaires de parasitologie et mycologie médicales. http://www.med.univ-angers.fr/service_serveur/invite/anofel/ Organized by major body systems, the site contains illustrations and brief descriptions of numerous parasites. It has been developed for teaching purposes and includes a section on links to parasitology and tropical medicine sites. The site is maintained by the Infectious Diseases Clinic, University of Torino, Italy. http://www.cdfound.to.it/HTML/atlas.htm The site contains images of parasites that are useful for training and education. Each page contains an image and diagnostic description of the parasite. The images can be used for teaching, with permission. The site is maintained by the Department of Medical Technology, University of Delaware, U.S. http://www.udel.edu/medtech/dlehman/medt372/images.html DPDx is a site for the laboratory identification of parasites of public health concern. It includes sections on parasites and parasitic diseases, an image library and diagnostic procedures for numerous diseases, plus a keyword search engine. The site is maintained by the Department of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/ This international consortium (including WHO and Special Programme on Tropical Disease Research) concentrates on neglected diseases such as human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) and visceral leishmaniasis (kala azar). The site includes general information, photo essays, press releases an events calendar, full-text reports and journal articles. http://www.dndi.org This site contains general information on lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) and dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease), their distribution, treatment and eradication. http://www.hdi.no/ The site is a gateway to websites on parasitic diseases.It is organized by general and disease specific subject categories. The site is maintained by the Karolinska Institut, Sweden. http://www.mic.stacken.kth.se/Diseases/C03.html This site is a gateway to onchocerciasis information on the Internet. The site is maintained by the Clark Science Center, Smith College, U.S. http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/SWILLIAM/OnchoNet/OnchoNet.html This is a major gateway for French language information on parasitology and parasitic diseases: societies, institutes, education, and individual diseases. It is well indexed (MeSH based), easily searchable, with various presentation formats. The site is maintained by CISMeF (Catalogue et Index des Sites Médicaux Français), France. http://www.chu-rouen.fr/ssf/biol/parasitologie.html The site is a section of a medical school e-book and contains specific chapters on protozoa, nematodes, cestodes, trematodes and anthropods. For numerous diseases, it contains an overview and illustrations plus related Internet links. The site is maintained by the School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, U.S. http://pathmicro.med.sc.edu/book/parasit-sta.htm This site is maintained by the World Health Organization and contains information on schistosomiasis and other soil transmitted worm diseases, their distribution and treatment. It features general information, a newsletter, health education materials and various full-text WHO documents and publications. http://www.who.int/wormcontrol/ This PubMed search will identify all parasitology 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 most subpages listed in the Specific Health Resources table of contents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=%22loattrfree+full+text%22[sb]+AND+(%22parasitology%22[Subheading]+OR+%22parasitology%22[All+Fields]+OR+%22parasitology%22[MeSH+Terms])+OR+%22loattrfree+full+text%22[sb]+AND+(%22parasitic+diseases%22[MeSH+Terms]+OR+(%22parasitic%22[All+Fields]+AND+%22diseases%22[All+Fields])+OR+%22parasitic+diseases%22[All+Fields]) This international consortium coordinates the fight against lymphatic filariasis. The website provides general information, full-text documents (some also in French), training guides, a newsletter and a photo gallery. http://www.filariasis.org The objective of this World Health Organization programme is to eliminate onchocerciasis through a sustainable, community-directed treatment plan and vector control. http://www.who.int/blindness/partnerships/APOC/en/ Help us to improve Essential Health Links. Please send your comments and suggestions to: eh-links@healthnet.org