This website contains up-to-date data on global child mortality estimates. On the website, you can download the latest estimates on child mortality by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. Also available for download: under-five mortality rate: country info summary, estimates and 90% uncertainty intervals; infant mortality rate: country info summary, estimates and 90% uncertainty intervals; sex-specific under-five mortality rate: estimates; neonatal mortality rate: estimates; and annual rate of reduction of under-five mortality: estimates and 90% uncertainty intervals.
Useful Resources
Launch of 'Sound Choices: Enhancing Capacity for Evidence-Informed Health Policy'
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, 30 Ocotber 2007
While health systems constraints are increasingly recognized as primary barriers to the scaling up of health services and achievement of health goals, knowledge regarding how to improve health systems is often weak and frequently not well-utilized in policy-making. 'Sound Choices' seeks to better understand and address the capacity constraints in the field of health policy and systems research.
Launch of ANZA magazine, East Africa's first ever architecture magazine
ANZA team, Dar es Salaam, December 2013
Architecture plays a role in our culture, health and wellbeing. The 21st century has brought social and economic transformation to Africa, and has been coined as the century of the cities, with high levels of urbanisation in Africa. This magazine, edited in Dar es Salaam and produced by architects, writers and students from several countries in Africa provides a vibrant resource for discussion of urban architectural and social issues connected with growing cities, as a vehicle for open criticism and a constructive exchange of opinions; a platform to launch innovation solutions; a place for the discussion of typical local phenomena, and as a source of information for decision makers.
launch of international HIV/AIDS Internet resource
The Centre for HIV Information (CHI) at the University of California, San Francisco has launched an internationally oriented, HIV/AIDS Internet resource. The pages feature detailed global and regional overviews of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, as well as 194 individual country profiles containing key documents and links. This information is complemented by the Database of Country and Regional Indicators, which allows users to create customized, comparative tables of epidemiological and socio-economic data. Through this continuously updated, "one-stop" resource, visitors can access the best online information on the international AIDS pandemic.
Launch of new Asia Pacific health equity website: HealthGAEN
The Asia Pacific network of HealthGAEN has just launched its new website. It is intended to function as a tool for information sharing and helping to keep people connected around issues affecting health inequities, particularly in the Asia Pacific region, rather like EQUINET in east, central and southern Africa. AP-HealthGAEN is a partnership of researchers, policymakers and non-government organisations across Asia Pacific - a region that stretches from Mongolia in the north to New Zealand in the south and from Kiribati in the east to India in the west. The network analyses the various ways in which health equity is impacted through the intersection of the social, environmental, health-care and development agendas, drawing on a range of disciplinary expertise and aims to build action on four fronts: collaborative learning and action; cross border action; cross sectoral action; collaborative learning and action.
Launch of new discussion group ProCAARE-ART
ProCAARE-ART, a new electronic forum, aims to develop an information and communication network that supports the rational prescription, appropriate use, and adherence to antiretroviral therapy for those infected with HIV. Given the increasing access to antiretroviral drugs and the scaling up of treatment programs, the need to administer these drugs in a safe and effective manner is critical.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29503
Launch Of Online Collection On Health Ethics
Global Digital Library on Ethics (GlobeEthicsLib)
A new online collection of research, documentation and articles on Health Ethics has been launched by Globethics.net in its Global Digital Library on Ethics (GlobeEthicsLib). Initially including more than 500 documents, the collection is a unique online resource covering topics related to health ethics such as pharmaceuticals, health economics, health politics, access to medical care, environmental issues and bioethics. The collection is available to participants who register with Globethics.net.
Launch of Patent Opposition Database
Médecins Sans Frontières: 2 October 2012
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has announced the launch of the “Patent Opposition Database,” an online resource to help patient groups or others to oppose wrongful patent applications as a way to ensure access remains open for affordable generic drugs. A patent opposition is a legal challenge aimed at blocking the granting of an unwarranted patent, MSF said. The database was launched on the tenth anniversary of a landmark decision by the central intellectual property court in Thailand to overturn a patent on a key HIV drug based on opposition filed by patients. India and Brazil also have used this process. It provides interested parties with all the information they need to know about patents, medicines and how to build an opposition to cases where pharmaceutical companies are trying to push through patents that will negatively impact on public health.
Launch of the Policy Action Network
Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa
The Policy Analysis and Capacity Enhancement Unit (PACE) website at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has now been launched. A portal to serve the wider policy and development community in South Africa - civil society, government officials and academics - has been strongly endorsed and Phase 1 of the process has been concluded. Collections of policy-related information are being developed in the following thematic areas: the developmental state, gender, health, poverty, social & economic policy, social innovation and social protection. The portal aims to provide a platform for key issues being debated including national health insurance and poverty alleviation. In addition, the site is developing a collection of information on policy methods – the ‘how-to’ of policy – to support the work of different sectors. Sections of the site include -
Information on methodologies for getting research into policy, policy into action, and on monitoring and evaluation; Policy-related events and training; Journals and listings of policy associations, centres and networks. The portal hosts invite feedback and submision of policy-related information.
Contact: vfichardt@hsrc.ac.za
Learning Network Video Resources
University of Cape Town, 2019
This resource provides a range of films which are useful training materials and resources. Films include reflections on community actions towards improving health, such as Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) documentary on “Strengthening Community Feedback Mechanisms for Improved Health Service Delivery” and a documentary film on “How South Africans are taking food security into their own hands” by a student featuring individuals from Klapmuts, Belhar, and Gugulethu in the Western Cape who are initiating food gardens and other programmes to empower their communities and strengthen food security and sovereignty. A short documentary tells the story of the Network of Community Defenders for the Right to Health, users of healthcare services that have organized themselves to identify problems, engage with authorities for resolutions and demand accountability. Also featured is a training video which explores the role of Health Committees from different perspectives – from that of a facility manager, a health care provider, health committee members and patients. Two further films from the Community Systems Strengthening (CSS) project reflect on the social determinants of health and the importance of responding to community health issues in a more holistic manner.