Good Medical Resources and links

Listed below is a selection of Internet-based health and medical resources arranged according to subject or type of resource. If you consider any of these worthy of your Favorites file, the quickest way would be accessing online this issue of Africa Health (http://www.africa-health.com/latest_issues.html), identifying this article and clicking and adding each link you wish to keep in your Favorites file, or alternatively, adding the whole article. This will save typing out each URL from the print issue.

GATEWAY/STARTING POINTS

Essential Health Links - http://www.healthnet.org/essential-links/

Hinari - http://www.who.int/hinari/en/

Africa (Stanford University) - http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/health.html

Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine - http://lib.itg.be/biblinks.htm#med

DATABASES

Pubmed - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Popline - http://www.popline.org/

Cochrane Library - http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/index.html

Reproductive Health Library - http://apps.who.int/rhl/en/

WHO Global Health Library - http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/php/index.php

TRIP Evidence - http://www.tripdatabase.com/

Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.co.uk/

DISCUSSION/EMAIL LISTS

HIFA2015 - http://www.hifa2015.org/hifa2015-forum/

CHILD2015 - http://www.hifa2015.org/child2015-forum/

Afro-Nets - http://www.afronets.org/

FULL-TEXT ARTICLES/BOOKS

Hinari - http://www.who.int/hinari/en/

Pubmed Central - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

FreeMedicalJournals - http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

Highwire - http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/devecon.dtl

BMJ Journals - http://group.bmj.com/group/customerservice/hinari/

Directory of Open-Access Journals - http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=20

BioMedCentral Journals - http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries/

FreeBooks4Doctors - http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/

Hesperian Health Guides - http://hesperian.org/books-and-resources/

DATA/STATISTICS
WHO Statistics - http://www.who.int/research/en/

Demographic & Health Surveys - http://www.measuredhs.com/

UNAIDS - http://www.unaids.org/en/dataanalysis/

CONTINUING EDUCATION/GUIDELINES

Epidemiology Supercourse - http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/

International Guideline Library - http://www.g-i-n.net/library/international-guidelines-library/

WHO Guidelines - http://www.who.int/publications/guidelines/en/index.html

MSF Clinical Guidelines - http://www.refbooks.msf.org/MSF_Docs/En/Clinical_Guide/CG_en.pdf

Health Sciences Online - http://hso.info

African Open Education - http://www.oerafrica.org/healthoer/FindOER/tabid/1862/Default.aspx

SELECTED SPECIALTIES

Cardiology

http://emedicine.medscape.com/cardiology

http://www.procor.org/clinical/

http://www.who.int/topics/cardiovascular_diseases/en

Child Health

http://www.kznhealth.gov.za/chrp/guidelines.htm

http://www.ichrc.org/reviews.html

http://emedicine.medscape.com/pediatrics_general

HIV/AIDS

http://www.who.int/topics/hiv_aids/en/index.html

http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/hiv/index.php

Infectious Diseases

http://lib.itg.be/biblinks.htm#med

http://www.who.int/topics/infectious_diseases/en/

http://emedicine.medscape.com/infectious_diseases/

Mental Health

http://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/atlas/en/

http://www.wfmh.com/01Links.htm

Public Health

http://www.thelancet.com/collections/public-health?collexcode=125

http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/knowledge/region_afro/en/index.html

Reproductive/Sexual Health

http://www.k4health.org/resources

http://www.arhp.org/publications-and-resources/core

http://www.pathfinder.org/publications-tools/

http://www.glowm.com/?p=glowm.cml/contents

Surgery

http://ptolemy.library.utoronto.ca/surgery-in-africa

http://www.medmatrix.org/_SPages/Surgery.asp

http://www.surgical-tutor.org.uk/default-home.htm

http://www.who.int/surgery/publications/en/SCDH.pdf