Response Net was developed with the hope of meeting a need expressed by many for an easy to use platform for resource sharing among stakeholders in the development community. Response Net is a free service that seeks to provides information on a 24x7 mode for emergencies and ongoing response. It is to disseminate announcements from civil society organizations, corporations and donors to a wide variety of audiences.

"BMC Public Health is an Open Access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of epidemiology and public health medicine. BMC Public Health (ISSN 1471-2458) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Scientific (ISI) and Google Scholar". (published by BioMed Central)

"BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth is an Open Access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of pregnancy and childbirth. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (ISSN 1471-2393) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE and Google Scholar." (published by BioMed Central)

The objective of this discussion list is to provide a platform to share and exchange knowledge on HIV/AIDS issues in South Asia and to debate policy issues by various governments so that the policies adopted are pro-poor and people friendly.

European Express is the new blog-based news source which provides latest news on international oganizations such as the WorldBank, IMF, WTO, Europa...
European Express is the non official information centre which provides latest news comming directly from International Organisations and Government. This service provides data, statistics and press comunications.

The Frontiers in Reproductive Health Program (FRONTIERS) is a 10-year cooperative agreement with USAID that conducts operations research (OR)aimed at improving the delivery of family planning and reproductive health services in developing countries. FRONTIERS offers a free monthly e-news summarizing recent research results and providing links to the full research reports. Two-page summaries as well as longer synthesis articles are designed to promote the utilization of research results. Areas of more...

JMIR is an OPEN ACCESS peer-reviewed transdisciplinary journal on health and health care in the Internet age. It is also described as an "e-Health research portal". All articles are accessible FREE of charge (as HTML file). In addition, PDF files for members are available. It has sought to cover "all aspects of research, information and communication in the healthcare field using Internet and other eHealth technologies". Despite having "Internet" in its title, the journal also publishes origina more...

Dgroups seeks to foster groups and communities in international development by providing an online listserve and group collaboration facility. It caters to both individuals and organisations by offering tools and services that bring people together. Its services can support a team, a group, a network, a partnership or a community, in an environment which is simple, non-commercial, respectful of privacy, and targeted at low bandwidth users in the South. Dgroups currently supports 1590 groups, co more...

Issue 331 of The Drum Beat (January 23 2006) provides 38 stories of "ways members of The CI network are using and sharing information exchanged through The Communication Initiative (CI) processes". Comments were gathered from those emailed directly to The CI teams, page reviews on The CI websites, and contributions to The CI websites' feedback forms.

The e-consultation “EkDuniya Grassroots Views on Progress Towards Achieving MDGs” seeks to elicit opinions on experiences of MDG-based interventions during past five years, from policy makers, planners, practitioners and community organisations. It is also expected that the emerging debate around these themes will lead to forming thematic inputs and recommendations for furthering the debate in ARM 2006 meeting.

KEY ISSUES AND TIMELINE: Week 1 (Nov 7-11): Knowledge-based Advocacy for MDGs
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