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- allAfrica.com: Health and Medicine News Plus
"a daily health bulletin gathered from African correspondents and 60 national news agencies; organized by date and category lists; contains numerous articles on HIV/AIDS in Africa"
- All Health Net.com: Daily Health and Medical News
"a daily updated news service that is organized by broad subject topics ranging from biotech, cancer or genetics news to public and consumer health news; predominently industrialized country sources"
- Cable News Network (CNN): Health
"a daily series of full stories and health briefs compiled by CNN correspondents or from news agencies"
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Communicable Disease Prevention & Control
"provides selective summaries of infectious disease outbreaks or problems that are available on the Internet; for the public health management at local, state, and international health agency levels"
- Communication Initiative

"site contains news, programs and commentaries about developing country health and health communication issues; it includes a keyword search engine and extensive links to development organisations; the group is a partnership of numerous organizations to foster the utilization of communication interventions for positive international development"
- Global Health.gov: Sharing Solutions to Shared Problems
"from the U.S. governmental agencies perspective, site contains fulltext articles that address global health and the link between domestic and international health issues; includes links to related U.S. agency sites"
- id21 health: Communicating Development
Research
"contains a selection of the latest and best UK-based development research; includes links to full text articles on: Health economics and financing, Health systems and policy, Non-communicable diseases, Infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, Sexual health, Family planning, Maternal health, Child health and
Environmental health; includes a keyword search index"
- Reuters Health Information Service
"daily compilation of news articles for professionals and consumers; includes weekly columns and keyword access to recent articles; must register for currently free service"
- SciCentral.com: Health Sciences Research News
"contains summaries of current research news with links to fulltext articles; besides feature articles, has access to forty plus 'specialty gateway' sections with similar features; also contains links to conferences, journals, databases, jobs and products"
- SciDevNet
"the site is devoted to reporting on aspects of modern science and technology that are relevant to sustainable development; it includes news, features, editorials, book reviews and links to related organizations plus contains a ‘regional gateway’ page for Sub-Saharan Africa"
- World Health News
"an online news digest from the Center for Health Communication of the Harvard School of Public Health; is a combination of original reporting and a digest of news stories and commentaries from newspapers and magazines worldwide; designed for policy makers, journalists public health researchers, practitioners, and advocates"
- World Health Organization:
Emerging and Other Communicable Diseases
"disease outbreaks reports submitted to the WHO's EMC Committee; a tool to strengthen national and international capacity in the surveillance and control of communicable diseases"
- World Health Organization/AFRO: Press Releases
"compilation of press releases and summaries from regional meetings of the WHO Regional Office for Africa" - World Health Reports (WHO)
"annual analysis of the important influence of health systems in the daily lives of people worldwide; includes the 'World Health Report 2000 Health Systems: Improving Performance'; contians links from 1995 to date; site contains links to previous reports, the organization's press releases and other WHO resources"

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