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The African Health Observatory: a comprehensive health information resource

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The World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa (AFRO), based in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, has created its African Health Observatory website at http://www.aho.afro.who.int/ .

Apart from providing free access to key statistics (live in an online database, and through providing the full text of such major publications as the Atlas of African Health Statistics 2014 and the African Regional Health Report 2014) an interesting and unique element of the Observatory website is the country profiles that are being created (in English, French and Portuguese) for each of the 47 countries of the African Region. This is a work in progress, as each profile seeks to act as an analytical review of the entire health system in each country. Using the same wiki software at the heart of Wikipedia, but with restricted ability for outsiders to edit the text, WHO has provided profiles some 70 or 80 pages long, when extracted (you can download “books” containing the full text).

Also available through the Observatory is the African Health Monitor ? an illustrated, peeer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of health in Africa.

Thanks to Chris Zielinski for this post about AHO

Jean Shaw, Phi

Interested in an internship at the World Health Organization?

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The World Health Organization (WHO) recruits twice a year for interns. Being a WHO intern is a great opportunity for medical students and family doctors in training to develop academic and policymaking skills, as well as to understand how the WHO works. ….more

Ebola challenge ‘biggest since Aids’

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The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the world’s deadliest to date and the World Health Organization has declared an international health emergency as more than 3,850 people have died of the virus in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria this year. What is Ebola? ….more

WHO: Consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations

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WHO has just published ‘Policy brief: Consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations’

This 184 page document is freely available here: http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/toolkits/keypopulations/en/

The text below is reproduced from the above URL:

OVERVIEW

In this new consolidated guidelines document on HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations, the World Health Organization brings together all existing guidance relevant to five key populations ­ men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, people in prisons and other closed settings, sex workers and transgender people ­ and updates selected guidance and recommendations.

These guidelines aim to:

– provide a comprehensive package of evidence-based HIV-related recommendations for all key populations;

– increase awareness of the needs of and issues important to key populations;

– improve access, coverage and uptake of effective and acceptable services; and

– catalyze greater national and global commitment to adequate funding and services.