Organisations

World Health Organization (WHO)

Switzerland

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Avenue Appia 20
CH-1211 Geneva 27

Charged to act as the world's directing and coordinating authority on suggestions of human health, WHO has developed a host of networks and mechanisms for generating data, applying facts to problems and recommending solutions that will lead to sustained improvements in health. The WHO resource centre is open to the public

Grandma's

UK

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PO Box 1392
London SW6 4EJ

Grandma's provides practical support to families and children affected by HIV/AIDS by building and maintaining relationships with the children concerned. The services provided include babysitting, support around hospital appointments, keywork visits on a weekly basis. Future plans incluse daycare and short-term respite facilities

The Disabilities Trust

UK

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32 Market Place
Burgess Hill
West Sussex RH15 9NP
UK

Provides a range of tailor-made support, care, rehabilitation and accomodation for adults with autism, physical disabilities and acquired brain injury. Aims to offer choices to the individual and to empower each person to take advantage of these choices in safety, but within an environment that is as independent and progressive as possible

Women's International Network (WIN) News

USA

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187 Grant Street
Lexington
MA 02420-2126

WIN publishes WIN News, a worldwide communication system by, for and about women of all backgrounds, beliefs, nationalities and age groups. It also informs the general public, institutions and organisations by transmitting internationally information about women and women's groups. It offers technical assistance and consulting services for women's development. WIN also publishes the Childbirth Picture Book/Program, teaching materials on reproduction at a grassroots level, regardless of language or literacy, which includes coordinated books, flip charts and slides

Community Health Works of San Francisco

USA

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1600 Holloway Avenue
HSS 301
San Francisco 94132

Focuses on the health of low income communities, in particular in the health of colored and immigrant communities. It is committed to the diversification of the health care workforce and the elimination of health disparities. Their programmes include the first college-based certificate for community health workers in the USA; an urban health oriented Drug and Alcohol Counsellor training programme; a programme to reintegrate internationally trained health professionals who have immigrated to the USA into the US health system; an urban asthma partnership; and the Regional Health Occupations Resource Centre, which disseminates innovative educational programmes to San Francisco Bay Area regional community colleges

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)

USA

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130 West 42nd Street Suite 350
New York NY 10036-7802

The aim of SIECUS is to establish human sexuality as a health entity and believes that freedom to exercise personal sexual choice is a fundemental human right. SIECUS disseminates information by means of a resource centre and enquiry service and by publications and materials designed to be used by parents and teachers for sex education purposes. The resource centre is open to the public by appointment on Monday to Friday (12-5 pm)

La Leche League International (LLLI)

USA

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PO Box 4079
1400 N Meacham Road
Schaumburg
IL 60168.4079

LLLI aim to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, education, information, and encouragement and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother

Movimiento Unificado de Minorias Servales (MUMS-MOVILH)

Chile

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Casilla 52834
Correo Central

MUMS-MOVILH promote width and integration concepts about human sexuality. It Demands human rights of sexual minorities and persons living with HIV. It promotes the creation of integration places and spaces. It promotes preventative action about HIV/AIDS and human rights. The MUMS-MOVILH resource centre os open to the public

Accion Internacional para la Salud Bolivia (AIS Bolivia)|Health Action International Bolivia (HAI Bolivia)

Bolivia

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Avda Abel Iturralde 1178
Miraflores, PO Box 568
La Paz

Aims to assist in improving living conditions and the health situation of the Bolivian population through civil society participation, promoting human rights, consumer rights, citizenship, patient's rights, health care access, and primary health care, through promotion, prevention, community education, information and communication activities. The resource centre is open to the public

World Neighbors Inc

USA

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4127 NW 122
Oklahoma City
OK 73120

World Neighbors is a grassroots development organisation working in partnership with the rural poor in hundreds of villages throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America. WN brings people together to solve their problems and meet theur basic needs. By supporting community self-reliance, leadership and organisation, WN helps people address the root cause of hunger, poverty and disease. Programme priorities are food production, community-based health, family planning, water and sanitation, environmental conservation, and small business

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