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Infectious Diseases: Links (Many from The American Journal of Public Health)

PubMed is the single best site to diseases and disorders. The URL is: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (See the on-line journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases). CDC site itself is http://www.cdc.gov/. A newer site is CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases DPDx site. Features reference material on parasitic diseases as well as a means of contacting DPD. The Internet continues to grow into enormous potential: http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/
• The Medical Letter: Drugs for Parasitic Infections, 3/2000 (PDF file - need Adobe Acrobat): http://www.medletter.com/freedocs/parasitic.pdf (more current is available)
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
• JWatch's Infectious Diseases site, http://infectious-diseases.jwatch.org/
• Infectious Disease Web Link: http://pages.prodigy.net/pdeziel
• National Foundation for Infectious Diseases: http://www.nfid.org/
• Stanford Center for Tuberculosis Research: http://molepi.stanford.edu/
• Global TB network: http://www.south-asia.com/ngo-tb/
• US Information Agency Infectious Diseases: http://www.usia.gov/topical/global/disease/infected.htm
• World Health Organization Communicable/Infectious Diseases: http://www.who.int/home/map_ht.html#Diseases:Communicable/Infectious
• World Health Organization Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response: http://www.who.int/emc/index.html WHO Statistical Information System: http://www.who.int/whosis/ Current information on disease outbreaks is found at http://www.who.int/disease-outbreak-news/index.html Bulletin of the WHO - including archives: http://www.who.int/bulletin/

International Health

• Academy for International Health Studies: http://aihs.com
• Canadian Society for International Health: http://csih.org
• Center for International Health Information: http://www.cihi.com
• Global Health Council: http://www.globalhealthcouncil.org
• Pan American Health Organization: http://www.paho.org
• Peace Corps: http://www.peacecorps.gov/home.html
• United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF): http://www.unicef.org
• United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM): http://www.unifem.undp.org
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): http://www.undp.org
• United Nations Population Fund: http://www.unfpa.org
• United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN): http://www.undp.org/popin/popin.htm
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID): http://www.info.usaid.gov

Public Health

• American Public Health Association and American Journal of Public Health: http://www.apha.org

Reproductive Health

• AVSC International (Reproductive Services): http://www.avsc.org
• Family Health International: http://www.fhi.org
• Global Reproductive Health Forum: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf

Africa

• African Health: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/african_studies/about_african/ww_heal.html
• Africa: South of the Sahara: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/
• African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/african_studies/AS.html

Middle East

• Middle East Information Network: http://www.mideastinfo.com/
• Middle East/North Africa Internet Resource Guide: http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jwr9311/mena.html

Asia

• Pacific Islands Internet Resources: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ogden/piir/index.html
• CDC information for travelers: http://www.cdc.gov/travel/seasia.htm
• WHO Southeast Asia Regional Office: http://w3.whosea.org/index.htm

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