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HealthThe UN Millennium Development GoalsSubmitted by admin on Wed, 02/05/2007 - 07:42.
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world's countries and all the world's leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world's poorest. MobileActive08: Unlocking the Potential of Mobile Technology for Social Impact13/10/2008 - 09:00 15/10/2008 - 17:00 At MobileActive08 participants will explore how mobile phones are used to advance civil society work, assess the current state of knowledge in the use and effectiveness of mobile technology to advance social action, and investigate trends, needs and investment opportunities. Location(s)Wanderers Club 21 North Road, Illovo JohannesburgSouth Africa Reuters: Web guru targets malaria with social network siteSubmitted by admin on Fri, 25/04/2008 - 19:52.
The British entrepreneur who sold a soccer Web site at the age of 17 for $40 million has switched his attention to help launch a social networking site on Sunday designed to fight malaria. Tom Hadfield set up Soccer.net in his bedroom before selling it to U.S. sports network ESPN, but now hopes the power of sites such as Facebook can curb a disease that kills an estimated one million people a year, many of them in Africa. "I believe in the power of friends telling friends telling friends," self-styled part-time student and full-time entrepreneur Hadfield told Reuters in an interview. ( categories: ) ENN: "Telemedicine" links Africans to Indian expertiseSubmitted by admin on Sat, 05/04/2008 - 08:44.
Troubled by a difficult case, doctor Asfaw Atnafu decides to seek advice. He walks into a consulting room at Black Lion Hospital in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa and greets a doctor at the Care Hospital in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Linked by a high-speed Internet connection, the doctors study X-rays and laboratory results. ( categories: ) Health and displacement. Interinstitutional impact on the networkSubmitted by admin on Fri, 15/02/2008 - 20:33.
This article analyses the use of specific e-health applications and their social impact on public health in a Latin American country, focusing on forced displacement due to the armed conflict in Colombia. (In Spanish). ( categories: ) WHO (HINARI) Health InterNetwork Access to Research InitiativeSubmitted by admin on Fri, 15/02/2008 - 20:33.
Example: World Health Organization's database of medical journals. ( categories: ) Punto “J”: a portal to educate youth in HIV/AIDS and healthSubmitted by admin on Fri, 15/02/2008 - 20:33.
Site on AIDS/HIV prevention directed at youth. (In Spanish). ( categories: ) eHealth in Latin America and the Caribbean: Development and Policy IssuesSubmitted by admin on Fri, 15/02/2008 - 20:33.
Issues in health and in the ICT market as they relate to the deployment of eHealth solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. ( categories: ) The new ICTs and social institutions. Towards a knowledge-based managementSubmitted by admin on Fri, 15/02/2008 - 20:33.
Experiences in the establishment of virtual devices - in particular, the cases of RISALC (Online network of social institutions in LAC) and the BVS (Virtual health library) - for improved management of information and knowledge. (In Spanish). ( categories: ) Challenges to Information Systems Implementation and Organisational Change Management: Insights from the Health Sector in EcuadoSubmitted by admin on Fri, 15/02/2008 - 20:33.
The case study is based on a national imformation systems initiative to support the decentralization and modernization of management functions in health districts of the Ministry of Public Health in Ecuador. » ( categories: ) 
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