This issue of the monthly e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention features 13 program resources with Web links, and 13 journal article summaries on research from China, El Salvador, Namibia, Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Zambia.

This project by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis provides futures projections for Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia. In addition to briefs and maps, the site provides quantitative models that one can use to project the implications of proposed policy choices. The materials seem to date from 2001, and projections are made to 2010.

We have been publishing a newsletter called "Health, Education, Social Protection News & Notes" for GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit) health department since 1997.
Meant initially as a GTZ-internal communication tool we have recently opened up the subscriber base for everybody interested in the bi-weekly newsletter.

The publication is between 15 and 25 pages in Adobe PDF format -
not larger than 500 kB and deals with summaries of books, online
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PLoS ONE (eISSN-1932-6203) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. PLoS ONE welcomes reports on primary research from any scientific discipline. PLoS ONE is published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit organization. PLoS ONE's start-up phase is supported by a grant from the Open Society Institute. PLoS ONE features reports of primary research from all disciplines within science and medicine. By not excluding papers on the basis of subject area, PLo more...

The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries (JIDC) is a new, independent, on-line publication with an international editorial board and open access.

The Journal is intended to publish original research papers, research notes and reviews covering different aspects of human, animal and environmental Microbiology and infections in developing countries with particular emphasis on emerging and re-emerging etiological agents, diagnosis, and epidemiology and public health.

The aim of the jou more...

The U.S. Agency for International Development manages a variety of initiatives to improve urban environmental conditions around the world. U.S. programs help cities around the world as they work to reduce pollution. A senior official David Hales, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Global Environment Center with USAID explains why and how the United States supports these initiatives.

[Global Issues (An Electronic Journal of the U.S. Department of State), Volume 5, Number 1, March 2000]

dispatch is a biannual newsletter featuring recent developments in the Campaign to End Fistula. This first issue includes Campaign news from Niger, Sudan, Bangladesh and the UK and from meetings held in Senegal and Pakistan in 2006. If you would like to receive electronic biannual newsletters, please send a request to fistulacampaign@unfpa.org.

[United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 2006]

The cost of unsafe abortion-related ill-health and death was the subject of a technical meeting held at the Institute of Development Studies (UK) on 18 and 19 April 2007. It was funded by the Hewlett Foundation and brought together experts on unsafe abortion and economists specialising in costing methods. The meeting reviewed recent work estimating the cost of unsafe abortion to the health sector. Participants also discussed the economic costs to health systems, individuals and households, and t more...

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (CAPMH) is an open access, online journal that provides an international platform for rapid and comprehensive scientific communication on child and adolescent mental health across different cultural backgrounds.

CAPMH is aimed at clinicians and researchers focused on improving the knowledge base for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of mental health conditions in children and adolescents. This journal serves as a scientifically rigorous a more...

This issue of the e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention features 13 new program resources with Web links, as well as 15 summaries of published research studies conducted in China, Jamaica, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zambia, as well as global overviews. [Published on behalf of the Interagency Youth Working Group (IYWG), May 2007]