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As well as the links below, the Source
contacts database lists hundreds of health and development organisations
worldwide.
Exchange
Steering Group organisations
Canal Saúde (The Health Channel)
www.fiocruz.br/ingles/canalsaude/oquee.htm
Permanent project under the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazilian Ministry
of Health, organised through the Committee for Public Agency in the Struggle
Against Hunger and in Defence of Life. It implements continuing long-distance
education in Brazil and disseminates information and promotes communication
in health-related scientific and technological development.
Department for International Development (DFID)
www.dfid.gov.uk
British government department responsible for promoting development and
the reduction of poverty. It is committed to an internationally agreed
target to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by
2015, including associated targets ensuring basic health care provision
and universal access to primary education.
Healthlink Worldwide
www.healthlink.org.uk
Works to improve the health and well being of disadvantaged and vulnerable
communities in developing countries, by working in partnership to strengthen
the local provision, use and impact of health communication and to support
advocacy initiatives to increase participation and inclusion.
Hesperian Foundation
www.hesperian.org
Non-profit organisation committed to promoting the health and self determination
of poor people around the world by making health information accessible.
It produces books and other educational resources for community-based
health care.
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/lstm.html
International postgraduate centre of excellence, devoted to research,
education and training, and consultancy in tropical health.
Panos
www.panos.org.uk
International non-profit institute providing information on global issues
with a developing country perspective.
Soul City
www.soulcity.org.za
Dynamic and innovative multi-media health project. Through drama and entertainment
Soul City reaches more than 12 million South Africans and many other people
in the Southern African region. Soul City makes information popular and
accessible. It examines many different health issues, and empowers learners
to make healthy choices, both as individuals and as communities.
World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)
www.waba.org.my
Global network of more than 500 organisations in 81 countries that aims
to protect, promote and support breastfeeding as a right of all children
and mothers.
Exchange partner organisastions
AfriAfya
www.afriafya.org
African Network for Health Knowledge Management and Communication, an
initiative established by Kenya-based health development agencies to explore
new opportunities for harnessing communication and information technology
for community health.
Communication Initiative
www.comminit.com/
Aims to: Advance the extent and quality of communication and change information;
Improve strategic communication thinking on development issues; Expand
dialogue, debate and review of key communication issues and programmes;
Effectively advocate the importance of communication for sustainable development.
INASP-Health/Health Information Forum
www.inasp.org.uk
Works to improve access to reliable information for healthcare workers
in developing and transitional countries, through promotion of cooperative
networking, analysis and advocacy.
MandE News
www.mande.co.uk
News service focusing on developments in monitoring and evaluation
methods relevant to development projects and programmes with social development
objectives.
Source International Information
Support Centre
www.asksource.info
Aims to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health
and disability. Online databases give access to over 20,000 health and
disability resources many of which are produced in developing countries.
HIV and AIDS organisations
AEGIS
www.aegis.com
One of the largest HIV and AIDS websites in the world. Updated hourly.
AfriAfya
www.afriafya.org
African Network for Health Knowledge Management and Communication, an
initiative established by Kenya-based health development agencies to explore
new opportunities for harnessing communication and information technology
for community health.
AIDS Channel
www.aidschannel.org
Global portal on AIDS from the OneWorld network of civil society organisations
working for human rights and sustainable development.
AIDS Resource Center (ARC)
www.etharc.org
Based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ARC provides information services on HIV and AIDS,
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB). Services
include central library and clearinghouse, journalist outreach training,
and materials development.
African Council of AIDS Service Organisations (AFRICASO)
www.africaso.org
Network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations
(CBOs), groups of people living with HIV/AIDS (PWAs) and other interested
groups, which through the process of information sharing, representation
and advocacy seeks to unite and strengthen the efforts of these groups
in order to reduce the transmission of HIV, provide care and support to
people affected by HIV and AIDS and minimize the impact of HIV and AIDS in Africa.
Gramalaya
www.gramalaya.org/aidsprevention.html
Grassroots-level NGO with an HIV and AIDS programme for truck drivers, their
associates and sex workers in Tamilnadu State.
Hiwot
HIV/AIDS Prevention Care and Support Organisation (HAPCSO)
www.hapcso.org
NGO that works with local organizations
in Adis Ababa, Ethiopia to help stop the spread of HIV.
International Council of AIDS Service Organisations
(ICASO)
www.icaso.org
Global network of non-governmental and community-based organisations formed
in 1991 with secretariats in five geographic regions, and a central secretariat
based in Canada.
International Family Health (IFH)
www.ifh.org.uk
Provides consultancy services in sexual health, especially the prevention
and management of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS
and related illness; reproductive health, population and family planning;
and maternal health.
Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria
www.nigeria-aids.org/
Media-based non-governmental HIV and AIDS advocacy organisation in Nigeria
with the aim of enhancing the quality of media reporting of HIV and AIDS and
reproductive health issues, through continuous training of journalists
and provision of information resources for their use.
Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium (KANCO)
www.kanco.org/
Consortium formed in 1990 by NGOs responding to HIV and AIDS that strengthens
co-ordination of NGO activities, discourage duplication, and foster communication
and collaboration with the government.
Kenya National AIDS/STDs Control Programme (NASCOP)
www.arcc.or.ke/nascop/nascopm.htm
Created within the Ministry of Health to be the major implementing organisation
of the Government's programme. The programme focuses on public awareness
campaigns, strengthening of laboratory services, surveillance of HIV and AIDS
and training of health workers.
National AIDS Manual (NAM)
www.nam.org.uk
Community-based information provider based in the UK whose sole aim is
to combat the AIDS epidemic through accurate, accessible and up-to-date
information.
National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS
in Uganda (NACWOLA)
www.wougnet.org/Profiles/nacwola.html
Works to improve the quality of life of Women Living with HIV/AIDS and
their families in Uganda. It operates in 18 districts of the country.
Panos London - HIV/AIDS programme
www.panos.org.uk/global/program_news.asp?ID=1001
Panos London in an independent, international NGO which works with
journalists in developing countries to produce news, views and analysis
on HIV and AIDS and other global issues.
Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service
(SAfAIDS)
www.safaids.org.zw/safaidsweb
Sub-regional non-governmental organisation with a main purpose of helping
strengthen capacity to address the socio-economic impact of AIDS and to
promote HIV prevention in southern Africa.
Soul City
www.soulcity.org.za
Dynamic and innovative multi-media health project. Through drama and entertainment
Soul City reaches more than 12 million South Africans and many other people
in the Southern African region. Soul City makes HIV and AIDS information popular
and accessible.
Strategies for Hope
www.stratshope.org
Producers of a series of 15 books, 4 documentary videos and a training
package to promote positive thinking and practical action in the field
of HIV and AIDS care, support and prevention, particularly in sub-Saharan
Africa.
The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO)
Kanyaya off Gayaza Road,
PO Box 10443, Kampala, Uganda
Tel: +256 41 567637, +256 77 767637
Fax: +256 41 566704
E-mail:tasodata@imul.com
Founded to contribute to a process of restoring hope and improving the
quality of life of persons and communities affected by HIV infection and
disease in Uganda and it exists at personal, community, family, national
and international levels.
Terrence Higgins Trust (THT)
www.tht.org.uk
UK's largest HIV & AIDS charity, providing direct services, face to
face support and information to people living with HIV, who know someone
who is, or who think they might be at risk of HIV.
UNAIDS
www.unaids.org
Advocates for worldwide action against HIV and AIDS, with a mission to
lead, strengthen and support an expanded response to the epidemic that
will prevent the spread of HIV, provide care and support for those infected
and affected and reduce the vulnerability of individuals and communities
to HIV.
UNDP HIV and Development Programme
www.undp.org/hiv/index.html
Co-sponsor of UNAIDS, an innovative joint venture that brings together
seven UN system organizations to ensure a coordinated and intensive response
to HIV.
Community-based organisations
(CBOs)
Gramalaya
www.gramalaya.org
One of the grassroot-level NGOs having field experience in water, sanitation
and health promotion activities more than a decade. Its programmes are
supported by WaterAid, UK and focuses on water and sanitation promotion
in the rural and urban areas of Tamilnadu State.
Media organisations
AEGIS
www.aegis.com
One of the largest HIV and AIDS websites in the world. Updated hourly.
Afaids
www.afaids.org/server/about.htm
Has methods of successfully communicating with those who are illiterate
and cannot read, as well as conventional methods. It is now working along
with the Ministry of Health in Botswana. In addition to this, it is working
on a communication system where educational messages can be given to people,
updated and changed as the need.
Health Unlimited
www.healthunlimited.org/aboutus/index.htm
Health Unlimited was founded in 1984 with an aim of supporting war-affected
communities in their efforts to achieve better health and well being.
Most assistance in war areas tends to focus on emergency relief that,
though essential, does not address long-term health need.
Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria
www.nigeria-aids.org
Media-based non-governmental HIV and AIDS advocacy organisation in Nigeria
with the aim of enhancing the quality of media reporting of HIV and AIDS and
reproductive health issues, through continuous training of journalists
and provision of information resources for their use.
Media/Materials Clearing House
www.jhuccp.org/mmc
International resource for health professionals who seek samples of pamphlets,
posters, videos, and many other media/materials designed to promote public
health.
Plus News
www.irinnews.org/aidsfp.asp
PlusNews is produced under the banner of RHAIN, the Southern African Regional
HIV/AIDS Information Network.
SAfAIDS
www.safaids.org.zw
Regional HIV and AIDS information dissemination service based in Zimbabwe,
established with the aim to promote, inform and support appropriate responses
to the epidemic in the fields of HIV prevention, care, support, long-term
planning and coping with the impact of AIDS.
Other organisations
Christian Aid
www.christian-aid.org.uk
Agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland that works wherever the
need is greatest, irrespective of religion. It supports local organisations,
which are best placed to understand local needs, as well as giving help
on the ground through 16 overseas offices.
The Futures Group International
www.tfgi.com
Management, marketing and strategic planning organization that helps
clients make critical decisions in the presence of future uncertainty.
Futures is committed to enhancing sustainable development through the
transfer of technologies to global experts and institutions and through
the creation of appropriate project designs.
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