Africa science news service-ASNS
Description: Reporting on African health policy and research
URL: http://www.africasciencenews.org
African
Development Forum
Description:The aim of the African Development Forum
is to present the key stakeholders in African development
with the results of current research and opinion on
key development issues in order to formulate shared
goals and priorities, draft action programmes and define
the environment that will enable African countries to
implement these programmes.
URL: http://www.uneca.org/adf99/
African
Internet Connectivity
Description:
Comprehensive data on information & communication
technologies (ICTs), telecommunications, internet and
computer infrastructure in Africa.
URL: http://www3.sn.apc.org/africa/
African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF)
Description:
AMREF is Africa's largest indigenous health charity,
and for 45 years in partnership with local communities,
governments and donors, has worked to research and alleviate
Africa's health problems. AMREF's mission is to empower
disadvantaged people in Africa to enjoy better health
by helping them establish their own self-sustaining
health systems.
URL: http://www.amref.org
African Science News Service
Description: Covering news and features on Health, HIV and AIDS from around Africa.
URL: http://www.fromafrica.blogspot.com
AFRONETS
Description:
African Networks for Health Research & Development
URL: http://www.afronets.org/
Regional
Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET)
Description:
EQUINET has played a role over the past three years
in highlighting issues of equity in health in southern
Africa. It does so by networking professionals, civil
society and policy makers to promote policies for equity
in health, undertaking research, initiating conferences,
workshops, and discussions through the internet, and
providing inputs at the SADC forums.
URL: http://www.equinetafrica.org/
Global Alliance for Africa
Description:
Global Alliance for Africa was formed by a group of
health care professionals and other concerned individuals
from eight different countries in Africa, North America,
and Europe. We work with local and international partner
agencies and focus on those regions in Africa most in
need of medical care, owing to poverty, isolation, and
lack of education. By promoting programs that encourage
self-reliance and independence, our programs enable
Africans to have greater control over their own lives
URL: http://www.globalallianceafrica.org/
HealthNet
Description: Our website leads viewers to different free-of-charge medical information newsletters and electronic discussion groups (AFRO-NETS is one of our discussion groups). Our newsletters are focused on current clinical and public health information from leading medical journals and are sent via email to subscribers.
URL: www.healthnet.org
Journalists against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria
Description:
Welcome to Nigeria-AIDS.org, your information source
on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and the West African sub-region.
Nigeria-AIDS is the website of Journalists Against AIDS
(JAAIDS) Nigeria, the award-winning media-based non-governmental
HIV/AIDS advocacy organisation.
URL: http://www.nigeria-aids.org/index.cfm
SciDev.Net
Description:
News, views and information about science, technology
and development. It includes a "sub-saharan Africa"
regional gateway.
URL: http://www.scidev.net
Science
in Africa
Description:
Science in Africa is the first popular science magazine
for Africa. From Cape to Cairo, scientists in a broad
range of fields report on their research, giving their
expert views on topical issues in science and providing
the right information to an African public seeking a
deeper understanding of science and of the dynamic role
it plays in everyone's lives.
URL: http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/
UN
Economic Commission for Africa
Description
ECA is the regional arm of the United Nations, mandated
to support the economic and social development of its
53 member States, foster regional integration, and promote
international cooperation for Africa’s development.
URL:
http://www.uneca.org/
