This section of the knowledge base explores information needs in relation to clinical healthcare challenges.
Mother-to-child transmission of HIV
The following are extracts and summaries of email discussions on the HIFA2015 and CHILD2015 email forums.
Meeting information needs to diagnose and manage childhood pneumonia
Knowledge and skills among those responsible for the health care of children (pdf)
HIFA2015 Supporting Organisation Translators Without Borders and Wikipedia’s Wikiproject Medicine have announced a partnership to improve the free global access to high quality health information. James Heilman, from Wikipedia, said: “I would like to thank HIFA2015 for bringing myself from Wikipedia and Lori Thicke from Translators Without Borders together. This has led to an exciting [...]
We are delighted to announce the award of HIFA2015 Country Representative of the Year 2011 to Princess Uju E. Nwafor-Orizu, Nigeria, in recognition of her outstanding achievements. Princess Uju Nwafor-Orizu is Medical Librarian at the Medical Library, College of Health Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi, Anambra State, Nigeria. She has enrolled more than _200_ new [...]
The HIFA2015 Steering Group is delighted to announce the ratification of five new HIFA2015 Supporting Organisations: End Water Poverty, Global Health Media Project, International Journal of Students’ Research, South African Association for Responsible Health Information & Advertising, Translators without Borders. 1. End Water Poverty http://www.endwaterpoverty.org ‘We’re a coalition campaign, made up of 185 members in [...]