Geographical Locations - Africa

• General Links
• List of Individual Countries
• Invitation to join us

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General Links

The (statistical) number of inhabitants per doctor is given per country in its respective section.

• The average number for Africa is about 15 000 inhabitants / doctor.
• (Min.: Libya: 690; Max.: Burkina Faso: 57 310 (= world maximum)

Africa is served by two WHO Regional Offices:

• The Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) in Harare (Zimbabwe). A list of AFRO member states can be found here.
• The Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean(EMRO) in Alexandria (Egypt). The EMRO member states are listed here.

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As far as public health is concerned, African countries are hardly present on the Internet. About 90% of the African WWW servers are located in Southern Africa.

• Africa - Health
  This guide to Internet health resources about Africa is provided by Stanford University. It provides links to relevant organisations and networks as well as to various reports and articles about health in Africa.
• Acacia Initiative
  "An international effort led by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to empower sub-Saharan African communities with the ability to apply information and communication technologies to their own social and economic development. It is expected to involve significant funding during its first five years and to grow to maturity over the first quarter of the 21st century"
• African Human Rights Resource Center
  A joint project of the Makerere University Human Rights and Peace Center in Uganda and the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center
• African Index Medicus
  In order to give access to information published in or related to Africa and to encourage local publishing, the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) with the technical support of the World Health Organization has produced an international index to African health literature and information sources. This index is called African Index Medicus (AIM).
• African Medical and Research Foundation
  "AMREF is Africa's largest indigenous non-government health organisation. It works in partnership with local communities, governments and donors, has worked to research and alleviate Africa's health problems. AMREF's mission is to improve health care among disadvantaged communities in sub-Saharan Africa by helping them establish their own self-sustaining health systems"
• African Movement of Working Children and Youth (AMWCY)
  The African Movement of Working Children and Youth is a federation of organisations working in African cities. It is constituted of about 15,000 domestic working girls, market sellers, independent working children and youth from streets and markets and apprentices.
• Africa Renewal
  "The Africa Renewal information programme, produced by the Africa Section of the United Nations Department of Public Information, provides up-to-date information and analysis of the major economic and development challenges facing Africa today. Among the major items it produces is the renowned magazine, Africa Renewal."
• Africa South of the Sahara
  This guide to Internet health resources about Africa is provided by Stanford University. It provides links to relevant organisations and networks as well as to various reports and articles about health in Africa.
• African Studies WWW at University of Pennsylvania
  The African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania has become a leader in research, teaching and outreach in African Studies. The African Studies Center coordinates a wide range of course offerings in anthropology, demography, economics, history, language, literature, politics, religion, and sociology. Specialised issues are addressed through the research programs, professional schools, and interdisciplinary centres.
• African Union (AU) - formerly The Organization for African Unity (OAU)
  The Africa Union (Formerly the Organisation of African Unity), was established with a view to accelerating the process of African integration to enable the continent to play its rightful role in the global economy while addressing multifaceted social, economic and political problems compounded by some of the negative aspects of globalisation.
• AFRO-NETS
  The electronic conference for the 'African Networks for Health Research & Development' (AFRO-NETS) was established in 1997 to facilitate exchange of information among different networks active in Health Research for Development in Anglophone Africa, and to facilitate collaboration in the fields of capacity building, planning, and research
• Association of African Universities
  The Association of African Universities is an international non-governmental organisation set up by the universities in Africa to promote cooperation among themselves and between them and the international Academic community.
• Contemporary Africa Database
  The Contemporary Africa database is a continuously growing, participatory on-line project, designed to provide easily accessible and current information concerning prominent Africans, African Organisations, and dates in the Africa calendar.
• Developing a replicable model for building the human capacity of public health systems in Africa
  This January 2007 concept paper published by the African Public Health Leadership and Systems Innovation Initiative sets forth a replicable model for improving public health leadership and health system performance within Africa, using Namibia as a demonstration project. “The Initiative will apply a high-performance, business-consulting approach called the Innovation Lab. The Innovation Lab increases health leader effectiveness by cultivating managerial and administrative skills and by addressing the attitudes, values, and relationships that drive behaviour. It stimulates system change by enabling cross-sectoral health leadership teams to develop and launch innovation projects that address pivotal health system opportunities or bottlenecks. Through the Innovation Lab, we convene health leadership teams from government, business, and civil society. Teams are guided through an intensive leadership development and project-based learning experience unfolding over two years.”
• EQUINET
  The Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa is a network of research, civil society and health sector organisations. Equinet seeks to develop and widen the conceptual understanding of equity in health, identify critical areas of work and policy issues and makes visible existing unfair and avoidable inequalities in health.
• Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa, and Global Health
  This book examines the aid, trade and investment practices of G8 member nations, providing a 'report card' of commitments over the three G8 summits form 1999-2000 and a preliminary assessment of the summit in 2002.
• FEMNET
  "The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) was set up in 1988 to share information, experiences, ideas and strategies among African women's non-governmental organisations (NGOs) through communications, networking, training and advocacy so as to advance women's development, equality and other women's human rights in Africa"
• FEWSNET
  The FEWSNET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network) is a USAID-funded activity collaborating with national, international and regional partners to strengthen the abilities of African countries and regional organisations to manage risk of food insecurity through the provision of timely and analytical early warning and vulnerability information.
• Global Alliance for Africa
  The Global Alliance for Africa was formed by a group of health care professionals and other concerned individuals from eight different countries in Africa, North America, and Europe to work with local and international partner agencies and focus on those regions in Africa most in need of medical care, owing to poverty, isolation, and lack of education. By promoting programs that encourage self-reliance and independence, the alliance works toward enabling Africans to have greater control over their own lives.
• Guidelines for evaluating basic nursing and midwifery education and training programmes in the African region
  "The aims of these Guidelines are to: provide information about the concepts and processes essential for quality assurance of basic nursing and midwifery education in the African Region; propose a process and content for evaluating existing basic nursing and midwifery education programmes so as to identify the changes needed; stimulate ideas for establishing a quality assurance system for basic nursing and midwifery education; provide a framework to health policy-makers and decision-makers, planners and implementers of health sciences education and training programmes in order to improve health programmes and the services for delivering them, and to guide allocation of human and financial resources in current and future programmes and services; and safeguard practice by health care professionals, and its increasing internationalization, by well-defined international and regional standards of education."
• Index on Africa
  The Index on Africa is a gateway to information on Africa on the Internet. It contains over 3800 links sorted by country, subject and news. The Index was created by the Norwegian Council for Africa (NCA), as part of NCAs efforts to raise awareness about Africa and African issues.
• ICRC operations in Africa
  The International Committee of the Red Cross devotes around half its operational budget to Africa, reflecting its ongoing commitment to the continent's people who must endure the daily consequences of the highest number of armed conflicts worldwide. This site outlines the ICRC's projects in Africa.
• ICRC - International Review of the Red Cross, 2003 - No.851: Special Issue: Africa and Humanitarian Action
  This special issue of the International Review of the Red Cross deals with the difficulties and challenges that have shaped Africa since colonial times and those which continue to affect the continent today, delving into the issues of reconciliation, prevention, intervention, child soldiers and the violence of war. Possible solutions to endemic problems are also explored, including collective action by the African Union and strategies for better implementation of humanitarian law.
• IRC - International Rescue Committee
  The IRC is a leading non-sectarian, voluntary organisation providing relief, protection and resettlement services for refugees and victims of oppression or violent conflict.
• Medilinkz.org
  The Medilink's mission is to be an online source of accurate, relevant, concise medical and health related information for Africa. It is aimed at doctors, healthcare professionals, policy and decision makers in health related fields and all groups of people who have a need or interest to keep informed and up to date about multiple areas of medicine and public health concerning Africa.
• NGO-NET Africa
  "The aim of NGO-NET is to support the Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) and Community Based Organisations (CBO), particularly in Africa. To reach this aim NGO-NET uses the Internet to foster local, regional and international co-operation in the sector; foster information exchange among those NGOs and foster communication between those NGOs and the "North" organisations."
• Overseas Development Institute (ODI) - Africa Portal
  This portal links to material on the thematic concepts covered by the Institute. It leads directly to ODI research reports, Briefing Papers, Opinion pieces and meeting reports.
• Pambazuka News
  "Pambazuka News (Pambazuka means arise or awaken in Kiswahili) is a tool for progressive social change in Africa. Pambazuka News offers a comprehensive weekly round-up of news on human rights, conflict, health, environment, social welfare, development, the internet, literature and arts in Africa."
• Pandemic Influenza (H1N1) 2009
  Includes links to information on: What is Pandemic (H1N1) 2009; Technical guidelines (for individuals, communities, national authorities and health professionals); WHO African Region situation updates; Global updates; and Lab confirmed Cases by Country.
• The Population Council - Africa
  The Population Council's Africa programme aims to improve the quality and expand the delivery of family planning and reproductive health services in Africa. The Population Council is an international, non-profit, non-governmental institution that seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources.
• SADC - Southern African Development Community
  The aims of the SADC include achieving development and economic growth, alleviating poverty, enhancing the standard and quality of life of the people of Southern Africa and supporting the socially disadvantaged through regional integration; Evolving common political values, systems and institutions and Promoting and defending peace and security.
• SANGONeT
  SANGONeT is one of the few Civil Society Organisations in Africa involved in the field of information communication technologies (ICTs). SANGONeT's vision is to be a strategic leadership organisation influencing social transformation through ICTs. It strives to contribute to a just, equitable and prosperous Southern African society, where the impact and contribution of sustainable development programmes are supported by appropriate, relevant and affordable ICT solutions.
• SARDC - Southern African Research and Documentation Centre
  "An independent regional information centre involved in the collection, production and dissemination of information about the SARDC region, with offices in Harare, Maputo and Dar es Salaam; and network partners in all SARDC member states, i.e., Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe."
• The Africa Multi-Country AIDS Program, 2000-2006: results of the World Bank’s response to a development crisis
  This 2007 study, commissioned by the World Bank and written by Marelize Görgens-Albino, Nadeem Mohammad, David Blankhart and Oluwole Odutolu, answers the question: “What are the results of the World Bank’s Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP) for Africa, so far? It documents the contributions of the MAP over the past five years, drawing on countries’ survey and program data that are not usually captured in routine World Bank reporting systems. It also proposes a new Results Scorecard and Generic Results Framework to better measure and report future results of HIV/AIDS programs in Africa that the World Bank helps to support.”
• UNDP - Africa
  UNDP Africa's programmes concentrate on four areas of strategic support to Africa: Strengthening democratic and participatory governance; Making globalisation work for Africa; Conflict prevention, peace-building and disaster management and Reducing the threat and impact of HIV/AIDS on Africa. This page outlines the programmes the UNDP is using to address these objectives.
• USAID Sub-Saharan Africa
  This site outlines USAID's programmes and achievements in Sub-Saharan Africa. It includes links to country and regional programmes, publications and other initiatives in the region.
• WHO guidelines for implementing strategic directions for strengthening nursing and midwifery services in the African region, 2007–2017
  "Although the global Strategic Directions for Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery Services (SDNM) were disseminated in 2002 to all countries of WHO African Region, their use and application in general have been slow at country level. This has been partly because the global SDNM only provided global orientations in terms of objectives and expected results to be achieved. The specific actions to be undertaken at national level within the context of countries’ peculiarities were not provided for within the global orientations… The regional guidelines for implementing the SDNM in the African Region are to accelerate action at country level. The guidelines also provide both a framework for WHO action to support countries in improving the quality of nursing and midwifery services, and a guide for action at national and local levels. Possible priority actions have been proposed to countries to facilitate strengthening of nursing and midwifery services at national and local levels."
• WWW Virtual Library: African Studies

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List of Individual Countries

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Algeria - North Africa -
Angola - Central Africa -


B
Benin - West Africa -
Botswana - Southern Africa -
Burkina Faso - West Africa -
Burundi - East Africa -


C
Cameroon - Central Africa -
Cape Verde - West Africa -
Central African Republic - Central Africa -
Chad - Central Africa -
Comoros - East Africa -
Congo - Central Africa -
Congo, Democratic Republic of ~ ( -> see Zaire ) - Central Africa -


D
Djibouti - East Africa -


E
Egypt - North Africa -
Eritrea - Northeast Africa -
Ethiopia - Northeast Africa -

G
Gabon - Central Africa -
Gambia - West Africa -
Ghana - West Africa -
Guinea - West Africa -
Guinea-Bissau - West Africa -
Guinea, Equatorial ~ - Central Africa -

I
Ivory Coast - West Africa -

K
Kenya - East Africa -

L
Lesotho - Southern Africa -
Liberia - West Africa -
Libya - North Africa -

M
Madagascar - East Africa -
Malawi - East Africa -
Mali - West Africa -
Mauritania - West Africa -
Mauritius - East Africa -
Morocco - North Africa -
Mozambique - East Africa -

N
Namibia - Southern Africa -
Niger - West Africa -
Nigeria - West Africa -

R
Rwanda - East Africa -

S
Sao Tomé and Principe - West Africa -
Senegal - West Africa -
Seychelles - East Africa -
Sierra Leone - West Africa -
Somalia - Northeast Africa -
South Africa - Southern Africa -
Sudan - Central Africa -
Swaziland - Southern Africa -

T
Tanzania - East Africa -
Togo - West Africa -
Tunisia - North Africa -

U
Uganda - East Africa -

Z
Zaire / Democratic Republic of Congo - Central Africa -
Zambia - Central Africa -
Zimbabwe - Southern Africa -

If you find a broken link or wish to suggest a new resource, please email us. Thanks for your kind support.

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Invitation

Coverage of all countries is a difficult task, and we need help. We have done our best to list relevant resources for each country, but we are aware that this is not enough to keep the Library updated.

Therefore, we would like to invite you to join us. If you feel you are the person to take care of a country, or countries or even regions, please let us know, and we will hand over the task of maintaining the respective section of the WWW Virtual Library: Public Health to you.

Please send an e-mail to us at: vph@unsw.edu.au and we are happy to discuss with you our cooperation.

Thanks for your kind consideration.

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