RESOURCE CENTRE MANUAL
HEALTHLINK WORLDWIDE
Topics in International Health series
Contains interactive tutorials, an image collection and a glossary of medical
terms. Intended for use as training materials – providing interactive tutorials
covering key topics on international health issues for the tropical diseases and
health community.
Subjects: acute respiratory infection, diarrhoeal diseases, HIV/AIDS,
leishmaniasis, leprosy, malaria, schistosomiasis, sexually transmitted infections,
sickle cell disease, trachoma, and tuberculosis.
Available from: CAB International
Wallingford
Oxon OX10 8DE, UK
Tel: +44 1491 832111
Fax: +44 1491 829292
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.cabi-publishing.org/CDROM/TIH
Women, Children and HIV: Resources for Prevention and Treatment
Contains over 5,000 pages of text related to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment
and care of HIV-infected women and children. Within each topic there are
overviews, guidelines and policy analyses, community education information,
research journal articles and reports, listings of organisations and related Internet
sites.
Available from: HIV InSite
University of California
4150 Clement Street, Building 16
VAMC 111V - UCSF
San Francisco, CA 94121
USA
Fax: +1 415 379 5547
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu
6.9.6 Databases on the Internet
Most of the following databases are available on the Internet free of charge, and
also on CD-ROM (although most are not free of charge in this format).
African Index Medicus (AIM)
http://www.who.int/library/country/regional/aim/index.en.shtml
Bibliographic database compiled from a number of national databases of
materials published in African countries on medicine and health, merged with
records from WHO, MEDLINE, POPLINE and related databases.
AIDSinfo
http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov
Catalogues trials of substances being tested for use against AIDS, HIV infection,
and AIDS-related opportunistic diseases. Each record covers a single trial, and
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