Africa Health Lists: Countries & Diseases

    Countries

  • West Africa Doctors and HealthCare Professionals Network
    http://www.wadn.org/
    Site provides telemedicine and web-based discussion groups for health care professionals based in West Africa.
  • South Africa: Health Systems Trust
    http://www.hst.org.za/generic/31
    HST provides an electronic health information service about South Africa by hosting over 100 electronic discussion forums and mailing lists to facilitate information sharing, communication, and networking around broad and strategic public health issues, locally and internationally.
  • SAFCO: AIDS in Africa
    http://www.hivnet.ch:8000/africa/safco/
    SAFCO [Sida en Afrique du Centre et de l'Ouest] est un forum public indépendant qui bénéficie du soutien du Programme commun des Nations Unies sur le VIH/SIDA et de ses partenaires nationaux et régionaux En collaboration avec la Fondation du Présent
  • Health-L, Zambia
    http://www.hivnet.ch:8000/africa/zambia/
    This is an electronic Network that helps people and communities from all over the world exchange information and experience in response to HIV/AIDS.
  • Visions-afr
    http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/WAfrica/frontpage.html
    This list is moderated by the Committee for Studies on Women, Health, and Environment in Africa, Dakar Senegal, in cooperation with Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, serving as a space for people and organizations within West Africa and outside to come together, discuss, and work on issues of gender, reproductive health and rights within the region
  • Partners-Uganda
    http://eforums.healthdev.org/read/?forum=partnersuganda
    Partners Uganda is a national eForum for HIV/AIDS-related health and development issues in Uganda.
  • Nigeria-AIDS Discussion
    http://www.nigeria-aids.org/MsgArchives.cfm
    The Nigeria-AIDS eForum ('eForum') is the online, email-based news and discussion network on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria established since January 2000.

    Diseases

  • Af-AIDS
    http://eforums.healthdev.org/read/?forum=af-aids
    Regional forum for HIV/AIDS in Africa
  • Gender-AIDS
    http://eforums.healthdev.org/read/?forum=gender-aids
    Facilitates linkages and information sharing between people living with HIV or AIDS groups, women"s organizations and other organizations working or interested in the area of gender and HIV/AIDS.
  • Stigma-AIDS
    http://eforums.healthdev.org/read/?forum=stigma-aids
    Forum on HIV-related stigma intended to expand and integrate discourse and public awareness on the topic.
  • Stop-TB
    http://eforums.healthdev.org/read/?forum=stop-tb
    International eForum facilitating discussion of programmatic and policy aspects of TB control and TB/HIV integration.
  • Partners-Uganda
    http://eforums.healthdev.org/read/?forum=partnersuganda
    Partners Uganda is a national eForum for HIV/AIDS-related health and development issues in Uganda.
  • Nigeria-AIDS Discussion
    http://www.nigeria-aids.org/MsgArchives.cfm
    The Nigeria-AIDS eForum ('eForum') is the online, email-based news and discussion network on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria established since January 2000.
  • Datelinehealth-Nigeria
    http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Datelinehealth-Nigeria/
    Datelinehealth-Nigeria yahoo group is a health communication initiative of the Centre for Health Policy and Strategic Studies, Lagos, Nigeria.
  • ICASA 2005 forum- International conference on HIV/AIDS in Africa, 2005
    http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/icasa2005forum/
    The ‘icasa2005forum' (International Conference on HIV/AIDS in Africa 2005 Forum) is an email forum for the exchange of HIV/AIDS views and news/information between stakeholders, for the purpose of ensuring that the objectives of the year 2005 ICASA scheduled for Abuja, Nigeria are completely realised.
  • HDNet Forums- Africa
    http://www.hdnet.org/e-forums3.asp
    Health & Development Networks (HDN) is a non-profit organisation with substantial experience in managing and moderating electronic discussion forums and providing communication support to conferences. Site provides access to HIV/AIDS discussion forums focused on such topics as stigma, gender, regional areas, and sex work.
  • Health-L (Fondation du Present, Geneva, Switzerland)
    http://www.hivnet.ch:8000/africa/zambia/
    Health- L is the archives of an electronic forum on HIV/AIDS and other health-related issues affecting Zambia associated with HealthDEV: a HIV/AIDS electronic Network that helps people and communities from all over the world exchange information and experience in response to HIV/AIDS.
  • SAFCO- AIDS in Central and West Africa (French and English)
    http://www.hivnet.ch:8000/africa/safco/
    SAFCO [Sida en Afrique du Centre et de l'Ouest] is an independent public online forum that benefits from the support of the UN program for HIV/AIDS.
  • Discussion Forum: Centre for the Study of AIDS
    http://www.csa.za.org/forum/messagelist/13/
    The Centre for the Study of AIDS, Pretoria, South Africa, provides this messagelist for online discussion of topics related to AIDS.
  • AF-AIDS Discussion Group
    http://www.fdp.org/forums.html
    This discussion group is supported by a grant from the EU HIV/AIDS Programme and has over 2,500 registered members. This website also has an extensive table of contents of posted messages about the fight against AIDS in Africa.
  • AFRO-NETS
    http://www.afronets.org/
    African Networks for Health Research & Development(AFRO-NETS) run by SATELLIFE is a discussion group that aims to facilitate the exchange of information between different networks active in Health Research for Development in Anglophone Africa, and to facilitate collaboration in the fields of capacity building, planning, and research.
  • Centre for the Study of AIDS-Message List
    http://www.csa.za.org/forum/messagelist/13/
    The Centre of the Study of AIDS is a South African organization based in the University of Pretoria that promotes a holistic understanding of HIV/AIDS, where it is not simply seen as a pure medical issue, but as a social, medical, developmental and legal one. This discussion group has addressed a variety of topics, ranging from stigmas and treatment to prevention.
  • CNCS Forum de Discussao
    http://www.tropical.co.mz/scripts/cutecast/cutecast.pl
    This is a Portuguese language HIV/AIDS discussion group supported by the Mozambique based organization Conselho Nacional de Combate ao HIV/SIDA.
  • ProCAARE
    http://www.procaare.org/subscribe.php
    The ProCAARE discussion forum, established as a partnership between SATELLIFE and the Harvard AIDS Institute/Harvard School of Public Health (HAI), aims to provide a forum for dialogue among clinical and public health physicians, nurses, researchers, policy makers, program managers, and other interested health practitioners both in the developing and industrialized world who are engaged in the fight against AIDS. Discussion centres on the continuum of biomedical and care issues covering such topics as prevention, access to drugs, home and institutional care, education, and epidemiology.
  • ProNut-HIV
    http://list.healthnet.org/mailman/listinfo/pronut-hiv
    This disscussion forum powered by SATELLIFE focuses primarily on the nutritional care and support of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and to improve access for front line workers to current information about nutritional care and support. ProNut also aims to motivate front line workers to provide more and improved nutrition care and support for PLWHA.
  • African Malaria Network Trust
    http://www.amanet-trust.org/ext/discussionf.htm
    This is a duscussion group hosted by the African Malaria Vaccine Testing Network African Malaria Network, which is based in Tanzania.
  • Malaria Foundation International
    http://www.malaria.org/
    Since 1992, the Malaria Foundation International (MFI) has raised public awareness and provided education about malaria. The MFI Communication Center link allows one to join public discussions already underway about malaria or to begin a new discussion. The Global Initiatives link offers information about the global initiatives to fight malaria and the Scientific Resources link offers information about funding for research as well as existing resources about the disease.