Resources for Additional Research
The resources in this section describe Websites that host professional networks or online discussions, or are portals that offer a variety of means to access information in the field of international reproductive health.
Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA)
http://www.ahila.org
AHILA is a professional organization with members in many African countries. It is committed to providing quality information to health care providers through improved information exchange and library science. AHILA-net is an online discussion group run in collaboration with the WHO Regional Office for Africa. Join this discussion group by sending an email with your mailing address to ahila@afro.who.int.
BBC World Service—Sexwise Online
English: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci_tech/features/health/sexwise/index.shtml
Spanish: http://www.bbc.co.uk/spanish/seriesexo.htm
Sexwise Online is a collaboration between the British Broadcasting Corporation and the International Planned Parenthood Federation to produce accurate sexual education information and distribute it via their Website, books, and radio programs.
The Body Pro
http://www.thebodypro.com
This AIDS and HIV information resource for health professionals is designed to assist them in determining suitable treatments in a timely manner for their patients living with HIV/AIDS and related complications.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Reproductive Health Resources
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/drh
This Website combines information from all of the CDC Websites about reproductive health information. A broad range of topics are addressed some of which include assisted reproductive technology, safe motherhood, women’s and men’s reproductive health, and surveillance and research.
The Cochrane Library
http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/clibintro.htm
The Cochrane Library publishes Cochrane Reviews summarizing the latest findings in evidence-based medicine 4 times per year. Review groups cover specific topic areas such as, Pregnancy and Childbirth, HIV/AIDS, and Fertility Regulation. Abstracts of articles are provided free of charge and full text articles are available with a subscription.
DELIVER
http://www.fplm.jsi.com
DELIVER, formerly the Family Planning Logistics Management (FPLM) project, helps establish and maintain improved health logistics systems in more than 30 countries.
Demographic and Health Surveys
http://www.measuredhs.com
MEASURE DHS provides decision makers with the information necessary to create and evaluate population, nutrition, and health programs. In this way MEASURE DHS plays a major role in furthering international understanding of global population and health trends.
Development Gateway/Population and Reproductive Health
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population
Managed by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Development Gateway offers news, events, resources, information on specific countries and regions, and discussions on key issues around population and reproductive health.
Emergency Contraception Materials Database
http://ec.princeton.edu/ecmaterials/default.asp
This Website provides an array of information on emergency contraception for a diverse audience. Sexually active females, health educators, and medical professionals located throughout the world will find numerous resources here, available in print and online, in a number of languages.
Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS)
English: http://www.popcouncil.org/frontiers/
French: http://www.popcouncil.org/frontiers/pubsfrancais03.html
Spanish: http://www.popcouncil.org/frontiers/pubsespanol03.html
FRONTIERS is a global operations research project that tests innovative interventions to improve family planning and reproductive health services in developing countries. It supports multi-country studies on global issues, promotes utilization of research findings, and seeks to build the capacity of institutions to conduct and apply operations of research.
Gendwaar
http://gendwaar.gen.in
This portal is a clearinghouse for gender information in the South Asian region. It offers access to numerous journals, full text articles and an e-library that address gender-related issues.
Global Reproductive Health Forum (Harvard School of Public Health)
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf
This Internet forum works to integrate and promote the multitude of discussions related to gender and reproductive health. To do so, it manages an online library, disseminates information, and hosts online discussions, all of which are available to interested parties worldwide through this Website.
Indian Medlars Centre’s IndMed
http://indmed.nic.in
IndMed provides bibliographic database searches that include 75 journals not found on PubMed, and links to the full text of more than 20 journals.
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
http://www.inasp.info/health/
INASP is a cooperative organization of international organizations that have come together to facilitate information sharing between countries. INASP-Health focuses specifically on activities that enhance health information delivery and exchange among health care providers. Activities include a discussion forum, workshops, a health directory, and a Health Library Partnerships Database among others.
IRHMedEd (International Reproductive Health Medical Education) Listserv
http://lists.infoforhealth.org/mailman/listinfo/irhmeded
IRHMedEd is a listserv for those actively working in preservice medical and health education in international reproductive health. IRHMedEd aims to facilitate a global dialogue and create an environment for exchanging lessons learned, sharing resources, solving individual and common problems, and advancing the field of international reproductive health in medical education.
JHU/CCP Information and Knowledge for Optimal Health (INFO) Project
http://www.infoforhealth.org/index.shtml
This project promotes effective means of sharing knowledge and information between developing and developed regions in order to maximize lessons learned in the field and therefore improve the delivery and administration of reproductive health care at the community, clinical and governmental level.
Kaisernetwork
http://www.kaisernetwork.org
This network performs comprehensive Internet searches daily and coverage of press conferences and briefings to provide thorough, up-to-the-minute headlines and summaries of changes in health care practices, research and policy. Subscribers can create profiles to receive free daily emails on the health issues which interest them.
KaiserEDU
http://www.kaiseredu.org
This Website facilitates the research of students and faculty of health policy on significant and controversial health policy matters by providing readily accessible and easy to search statistics, news, articles and other data. Free email updates on these topics are also available here.
Medscape
http://www.medscape.com
Medscape provides health care providers and the research community with timely clinical research articles and resources in an accessible, time-saving format. Medscape provides specific information on Women’s Sexual Health in the Resource Centers section of their Website. Free registration is required.
MedWeb at Emory University
http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb
MedWeb catalogs online resources by audience, specialty, and topic area. Resources include journals, discussion groups, Websites, textbooks, databases, and more. The audience for this portal is primarily Emory University academic staff.
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov
The National Library of Medicine, a project of the National Institutes of Health, is the world’s largest medical library. NLM provides numerous research tools like PubMed, Medline and NLM Gateway.
ObGyn World News
http://www.obgynworld.com
ObGyn World is officially endorsed by the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO). With free registration, users can access Literature Reports that summarize the most seminal research and provide expert commentary on a wide rage of topics related to gynecology and obstetrics. OBGyn World also provides free access to Clinical Practice Guidelines.
OBGYN.net
http://www.obgyn.net
This Website provides information on obstetric and gynecological illnesses, treatments, publications, technological innovations and professional opportunities for interested women and health care practitioners around the world.
POPLINE
http://www.popline.org
POPLINE is a bibliographic database of worldwide literature on population, family planning, and related health issues. It contains over 300,000 citations, is available free online, and as a CD-ROM. POPLINE also provides free, full text documents by email or regular mail to users in developing countries.
Population and Health Infoshare
http://www.phishare.org
The Population and Health Infoshare is an electronic library of online resources focused on reproductive and child health, population, and HIV/AIDS. Email delivery and notification is available to its subscribers.
PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed
PubMed catalogs more than 15 million articles related to health sciences provided by MEDLINE. Many PubMed citations are linked to abstracts and some are linked to full text articles or related sources.
Reproductive Health (RH) Gateway
http://www.rhgateway.org
Reproductive Health Gateway gives quick access to relevant, accurate information about reproductive health on the Internet using a targeted Website search technique.
Reproductive Health Outlook (RHO)
http://www.rho.org
This Website, aimed at reproductive health professionals in developing countries, offers regularly updated research reviews, policy analysis, lessons from applied programs and suggestions for clinical practices in the reproductive health field. An important objective of RHO is to help users link with quality online resources and collaborate with colleagues around the world.
Reproductive Health Webliography
http://www.sph.unc.edu/academic_affairs/TARGET/reprod_health_webliogr.htm
This Website provides an online bibliography of indexed resources appropriate for reproductive health content, program management, and regional focus areas of reproductive health.
ReproLine (Reproductive Health Online)
http://www.reproline.jhu.edu
This Website caters to the everyday needs of professionals involved in all aspects of reproductive health care, from training and program management to curriculum development and service delivery.
Reuters Health (RH)
http://www.reutershealth.com
Reuters Health provides comprehensive, reliable health and medical news. Subscribers can receive daily emails on selected content areas via Medical News Wire.
SATELLIFE
http://www.healthnet.org
SATELLIFE works to overcome barriers to health information access in developing countries through online discussions on a range of topics in English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish, as well as one tailored to English-speaking practitioners in India. SATELLIFE also offers GetWeb through their Website. This is a service that allows users to access information on the Internet through their email account.
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
http://www.arl.org/sparc
SPARC is a collaborative project of libraries and organizations that advocate and develop tools to increase and support open access journals. SPARC offers newsletters and publications on open access and their Resources link provides a list of open access portals.
United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN)
http://www.un.org/popin
POPIN, developed in part by the United Nations Population Fund, is a resource for regional, national, and global population organizations to access publications, contact information, conferences and other materials online.
WHO-Reproductive Health and Research
http://www.who.int/reproductive-health
The Department of Reproductive Health and Research of the World Health Organization (WHO) provides documents and publications spanning a broad array of reproductive health topics and serves as WHO’s center for reproductive health information. It contains links to the WHO Reproductive Health Library CD-ROM, available in English and Spanish and free to low- and middle-income countries.
Women’s Health Matters
http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca
Women’s Health Matters provides current, reliable, evidence-based women’s health information. Their database contains descriptions of books and periodicals, audiovisual and multimedia materials and Websites.
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