News
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Keeping up with Global Health News can be challenging. The ING has provided this list as an attempt to help its members to fulfill this goal.
General
- Global Health Reporting: http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/
- GlobalHealthReporting.org (GHR) is a project developed and operated by the Kaiser Family Foundation with major support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
to provide journalists and others -- including researchers, policymakers and nongovernmental organizations -- with the latest news and information about HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria worldwide.
- GHR includes:
- The latest news on global health issues;
- Resources, reference libraries and the latest information and statistics on HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria;
- Reporting resources for journalists, including media contacts, tutorials and other educational, training and grant opportunities for health reporters;
- Country-focus pages with in-depth information and resources about the three diseases;
- A calendar listing upcoming events and trainings related to HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria and health journalism.
- Harvard World Health News: http://www.worldhealthnews.harvard.edu/index.html
- World Health News is an online news digest from the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health.
The site covers critical public health issues from around the world. It is designed to be a resource for an international audience of policy makers and journalists as well as public health researchers, practitioners, and advocates.
- Global Health Council: http://www.globalhealth.org/
- As the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world, the Global Health Council works
to ensure that all who strive for improvement and equity in global health have the information and resources they need to succeed.
To achieve this goal, the Council serves as the pre-eminent voice for action on global health issues and the voice for progress in the global health field.
In representing the world's most effective organizations and individuals dedicated to addressing the most critical health issues,
the Council works tirelessly to advance and promote their varied methodologies and objectives in pursuit of one overarching goal: better health for the world's poor and underserved.
- World Health Organization: http://www.who.int
- The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution,
is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
- Pan-American Health Organization: http://www.paho.org/
- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency with 100 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas.
It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System. It also serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system.
Nursing
- International Council of Nursing: http://www.icn.ch/
- The International Council of Nurses is a federation of national nurses' associations (NNAs), representing nurses in more than 120 countries.
Founded in 1899, ICN is the world's first and widest reaching international organization for health professionals. Operated by nurses for nurses,
ICN works to ensure quality nursing care for all, sound health policies globally, the advancement of nursing knowledge, and the presence worldwide of a respected nursing profession and a competent and satisfied nursing workforce.
- UCSF Nursing HIV/AIDS Center: http://www.aidsnursingucsf.org/
- The goal of the center is too promote optimal health and quality care for people living with and affected by HIV disease through leadership in nursing research, clinical practice, and training.
UCSF
- Global Health Sciences: http://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/
- UCSF Global Health Sciences (GHS) is dedicated to improving health and reducing the burden of disease in the world's most vulnerable populations.
It integrates UCSF expertise in all of the health, social, and biological sciences, and focuses that expertise on pressing issues in global health. GHS works with partners in countries throughout the world to achieve these aims.
- Institute for Global Health: http://www.igh.ucsf.edu/index.html
- The Institute for Global Health is committed to improving health and increasing access to effective and affordable health services in all countries. The goals of the Institute are to:
- Improve people's lives by decreasing premature death and disability
- Build capacity of local communities to improve health and health care access
- Motivate the public and private sectors to drive consensus and action for the improvement of health globally
Policy
HIV/AIDS
Revised: Sept. 2005
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