The updated 2010 healthcare workers handbook on influenza provides detailed guidelines on the diagnosis and management of influenza, both seasonal and pandemic, for healthcare workers in South Africa. It gives historical background to the disease in southern Africa, symptoms, case descriptions, information on laboratory testing and clinical management guidelines. The guide concludes with a section on infection management and control.
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Healthcare workers handbook on influenza
National Institute for Communicable Diseases: 1 July 2010
HEALTHLINK WORLDWIDE LAUNCHES 2ND EDITION OF RESOURCE CENTRE MANUAL
The second edition of Healthlink Worldwide's Resource Centre Manual was released on 20 October 2003. Building on the success of the original manual launched in February 2000, the new version has been updated. It is designed for health and disability workers planning to set up and develop a resource centre within resource-poor communities around the world, and will be particularly useful to people operating on a limited budget.
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Healthlink Worldwide's Resource Centre Manual (2nd Edition)
The fully updated edition of the Resource Centre Manual from Healthlink Worldwide is out now and available as a PDF document. It is also available in text only.
Heredity
An International Journal of Genetics
From 2002, Nature Publishing Group will publish Heredity, a journal of the Genetics Society. Focusing on eukaryotes, the journal publishes key papers on ecological, population and evolutionary
genetics, including human population genetics; genomics and post-genomics as applied to evolutionary questions; biometrical and statistical genetics; animal and plant breeding and cytogenetics. For submission and subscription enquiries e-mail us.
Contact: hdy@nature.com
HighWire Press
a community of online scientific journals
Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press began in early 1995 with the online production of the weekly Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), the most highly cited (and second largest) peer-reviewed journal. Scientists and societies rapidly saw the potential for new forms and features of scientific communication, and Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences soon joined JBC online. HighWire now (January 2003) produces 346 sites online, with many more planned. The journals HighWire supports focus on science, technology, and medicine (STM). Under the guidance of its publishing partners, HighWire's approach to online publishing of scholarly journals is not simply to mount electronic images of printed pages; rather, by adding links among authors, articles and citations, advanced searching capabilities, high-resolution images and multimedia, and interactivity, the electronic versions provide added dimensions to the information provided in the printed journals. The site has recently been redesigned to help researchers comprehensively search and gain access to the literature easily and to help librarians support their researchers and institutions with more complete and improved services.
HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice
'HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice' is an email newsletter for doctors, nurses, health care workers and community treatment advocates working in limited-resource settings. It is published twice every month by NAM, the UK-based HIV information charity behind www.aidsmap.com. The newsletter is edited by Julian Meldrum, NAM's international editor.
HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice #7, 12 June 2003
'HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice' is an email newsletter for doctors, nurses, health care workers and community treatment advocates working in limited-resource settings. The newsletter is published twice every month by NAM, the UK-based HIV information charity behind www.aidsmap.com.
HIV and AIDS Treatment In Practice: a new e-mail newsletter
'HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice' is an email newsletter for doctors, nurses, other health care workers and community treatment advocates working in limited-resource settings. The newsletter is published by NAM, the UK-based HIV information charity behind www.aidsmap.com.
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HIV Manual: The PIH Guide to the Community-Based Treatment of HIV in Resource-Poor Settings
Partners In Health
Partners In Health has recently converted the 2006 edition of 'The Partners In Health Guide to Community-Based Treatment of HIV in Resource-Poor Settings' into an interactive, online version. The new website allows visitors to share insights about the manual and experiences in the field, to ask questions of each other, to answer others’ concerns and to foster a community of care. This interactive manual is distinctly a work in progress. Their long-term goal is to build an online knowledge community, a community where people working to ensure quality health care and social justice for the poor can exchange, comments, questions, lessons and examples drawn from their own experience, both with Partners In Health and with each other. Parners In Health expect this exchange to enrich all of their work, as well as future editions of The HIV Manual.
HIV Research Trust scholarship
A new scholarship programme is being run by the International AIDS Society on behalf of the HIV Research Trust. The Scholarship scheme aims to support a broad mix of disciplines while enabling physicians, nurses, scientists, and other health care professionals in resource poor settings to acquire skills relevant to treatment-related research; in order to develop their careers and increase the capacity of their units to carry out research related to treatment and prevention.
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