Information about tuberculosis and its control in India, with lots of online training materials for health workers. Also includes key facts about DOTS, success stories and a directory of TB offices in India
Stop TB is a global movement to accelerate social and political action to stop the unnecessary spread of TB around the world. The website has details of events, campaigns and organisations, country profiles and reports. Also lists online resources including the Stop TB newsletter, and has updates on the work of the DOTS working group. The World Health Organization (WHO) plays a prominent role in Stop TB
A website for the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. This site has reports and updates about TB information and conferences
The programme of surveillance of tuberculosis in Europe (EuroTB) started in 1996 to promote the use of epidemiological surveillance in tuberculosis control in Europe, and to standardise tuberculosis control methods. The website is available in English and French. It also contains information about infection rates for different countries and EuroTB newsletters
This website includes a searchable database of over 1000 education and training resouces in TB that can be used by TB and other health care professionals, patients, and the general public. The database includes material from the DTBE, the National Model TB Centres and numerous other national and international organisations. The website can also be used to submit TB materials for inclusion in the database, find out how to order TB materials, locate funding opportunities, get information about TB organizations, find out about upcoming events, sign up for TB-related listservs and digests, and to locate TB-related web links. The site is maintained by the National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) who can be contacted for advice and information, and to order materials
This website looks at issues relating to health programmes in India, in particular the popularisation of the Directly Observed Treatment Shortcourse (DOTS) strategy amongst health care providers and Indian public. The site contains a variety of online resources, including training courses for health workers, conference reports, World TB Day toolkits, surveys looking at the implementation of public health policies in India, an HIV/AIDS guide, and the newsletter "TB News from India"
This database provides over 900,000 bibliographic references on a wide range of health topics. Around 40% of its content is unique when compared to Medline (PubMed), and it specialises in covering difficult-to-obtain serials, and non-serials such as books and conferences which are not indexed elsewhere
This database includes information and resources on HIV, STI and TB prevention. Many are free to order. Most are designed for a US audience, though some may also be appropriate or adaptable to resource-poor contexts
This is the website of an international federation of thirteen autonomous non-governmental anti-leprosy organisations, or organisations with a strong emphasis on leprosy. Technical publications about leprosy in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish are available for download from the website
A disability directory of UK adult and children's disability services. Includes advice and information, access, education, recreation and sports, the arts, and detailed information on specific disabilities
The Digital Hero Book Project aims to integrate hero booking into the learning activities of IT-enabled schools in Cape Town, South Africa, and other sites around the world, and put paper-based hero books into the digital arena. Hero Books are a form of memory work, a process of setting up a safe space for an individual to tell a story, whereby a young person becomes the author, illustrator and editor of their own book
This global initiative has been designed to help developing countries build and sustain the health workforce so that they can respond systemically to the challenges of implementing and sustaining quality health programmes. The project seeks to improve the quality, accessibility and use of priority health services through: 1. Improving workforce planning and leadership; 2. Developing better education and training programmes for the workforce, and 3. Strengthening systems to support workforce performance. The Capacity Project works across sectors such as health, education, planning, public service commissions and local government entities in order to address the varied forces that affect the health workforce. The Project also works in multiple priority health areas, including family planning and reproductive health, maternal and child health, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other infectious diseases
This tool box is a central repository for a wide range of health-related procurement & supply management tools. Some of these tools are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish
This catalogue lists first-line anti-TB drugs, TB diagnostics equipment and other products currently supplied by the Global Drug Facility (GDF). GDF is a mechanism to expand access to, and availability of, high-quality anti-TB drugs and diagnostics to facilitate global DOTS expansion or maintenance to support the Stop TB Strategy
This database lists anti-malarial medicines alphabetically by brand/marketing name. For each drug listed there is a photograph and details about its manufacture. Packaging and strength/dosing information is listed and WHO pre-qualification status is provided
UNITAID’s mission is to contribute to scaling up access to treatment for HIV and AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, primarily for people in low-income countries, by leveraging price reductions for quality diagnostics and medicines and accelerating the pace at which these are made available
This website contains information about research and resources to support ensuring that children are healthy and able to learn, as an essential component of an effective education system, by topic and by country. Good health increases enrolment and reduces absenteeism, and brings more of the poorest and most disadvantaged children to school, many of whom are girls. It is these children who are often the least healthy and most malnourished, and who have the most to gain educationally from improved health
A technical journal for those working with household energy. Deals with technical, social, financial and environmental issues and aims to improve the quality of life for poor communities living in the developing world. Contains practical information on stove construction and design, appropriate technologies in the field of stoves and household energy, stove making materials, governmental and NGO stove programmes, research and development, associated sociological issues, cooking practices, fuel issues and conservation. Back issues available on CD-ROM. Previously published by Practical Action
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