We are delighted to announce the winners of the Photoshare 6th Annual International Photo Contest and their photos may be seen here.

The Photoshare 6th Annual International Photo Contest was hosted by the Knowledge for Health project (K4Health) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in collaboration with the Global Healthcare Information Network/HIFA2015. Open to amateurs and professionals, the contest drew interest from around the globe, including about 300 participants who submitted close to 1,200 photos captured in 82 countries.

The winner of the HIFA2015 Photography Award (Category: Healthcare Providers) is Ben Barber from USAID: ‘A woman, pregnant with her fifth child, listens as a volunteer health worker tells her about
sanitation, health and the preparation for delivery in Nepal.’

Judges commented: ‘I like the combination of featuring a healthcare provider, physical ‘information’ in the form of the flipchart, and the fact that the healthcare provider is dressed in similar clothes to the pregnant woman.’ ‘It is a lovely composition which conveys a relationship between the 2 women and when you read the caption it underlines that so much of health care provision is simply conveying
good information to engage and empower people, especially women to help themselves and care for their families; and the role of volunteers in this who are trusted by communities, trained by
professional health workers and given an appropriate tool/visual aid.’

Our warm congratulations to Ben Barber, who will receive a Canon SLR camera (sponsored by Global Healthcare Information Network).

There were 10 categories in the Photoshare Contest:

- Healthcare Providers (HIFA2015 Photography Award)
- Family Planning & Reproductive Health
- HIV/AIDS
- Malaria
- Environment
- Agricultural & Economic Development
- Democracy & Governance
- Humanitarian Assistance
- Global Health
- Human Interest.

The winners of the 10 categories went to a final round of judging, and the overall winner is Somenath Mukhopadhyay, whose photo shows a young girl suffering from malaria in the village of Birbhum, India.
Congratulations to Somenath Mukhopadhyay, who will receive a Canon SLR camera plus US$1000 (sponsored by Knowledge for Health).

Our thanks to everyone who entered the competition! Your photos will be included in the Photoshare
collection for potential use by non-profit organisations worldwide.

We hope to be able to collaborate on another HIFA2015 photography contest later in 2010.

Neil Pakenham-Walsh, HIFA2015 coordinator
On behalf of the HIFA2015 Steering Group

We are delighted to announce the ratification of three new Supporting Organisations:
• Child Family Health International
• Commonwealth Pharmacists Association
• Tanzania National Nurses Association.

In total, 80 organisations worldwide have now officially declared their commitment to the HIFA2015 goal. The full list of Supporting Organisations is available at www.hifa2015.org/support/

Our thanks to all for your continuing support. New applications are invited for ratification at our next HIFA2015 Steering Group meeting at the British Medical Association on 19 April 2010.

Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Coordinator
On behalf of the HIFA2015 Steering Group

We are delighted to announce the ratification of six new Supporting Organisations:

• Burkina Faso Medical Students’ Association
• Commonwealth Nurses Federation
• Earth Institute: Program for Health Systems Development and Research
• Health Protection Agency
• Open Education Resources Africa
• Regional AIDS Training Network

In total, 77 organisations worldwide have now officially declared their commitment to the HIFA2015 goal. The full list of Supporting Organisations is available at www.hifa2015.org/support/

Our thanks to all for your continuing support. New applications are invited for consideration at our next HIFA2015 Steering Group meeting on 20 January 2010.

Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Coordinator
On behalf of the HIFA2015 Steering Group

We are sending this announcement from the official launch today of HIFA2015-Portuguese (HIFA-pt) in Maputo, Mozambique. 40 health information professionals from Portuguese-speaking countries worldwide have gathered here for the 2nd Coordination Meeting of the Biblioteca Virtual em Saude / ePORTUGUESe.

 HIFA-pt is the first HIFA2015 forum in a language other than English. HIFA-pt is a campaign and knowledge network with the same goal as HIFA2015 - Informação em saúde para todos. Our focus is on the 240 million people who live in the 8 Portuguese-speaking countries: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome e Principe, and Timor Leste.

HIFA-pt already has more than 350 members! For more information and how to join, see www.hifa2015.org/hifa-pt

On behalf of all in Maputo.

Neil Pakenham-Walsh (HIFA2015 coordinator) and Regina Ungerer (HIFA-pt coordinator)

HIFA2015 is delighted to announce that Community Health Workers will be the focus of the HIFA 2010 Challenge. Our goal: By 2015, every Community Health Worker will have access to the information they need to learn, to diagnose, to provide appropriate care and treatment and to save lives.

Community Health Workers are critical for the delivery of frontline healthcare in low-income countries, especially for the poor and disadvantaged. The term Community Health Workers includes ‘Any health worker carrying out functions related to health care delivery; trained in some way in the context of the intervention; and having no formal professional or paraprofessional certificated or degreed tertiary education.’ (Lewin et al 2005). Community Health Workers may be men or women, young or old, literate or illiterate. More information

• ASHO Foundation (Indonesia)
• eIFL.net
• Health Actions Concerning the Environment and You (Nigeria)
• JK Welfare & Pharmascope Foundation (India)
• Medic to Medic

In total, 70 organisations worldwide have now officially declared their commitment to the HIFA2015 goal. The full list of Supporting Organisations is available at www.hifa2015.org/support/

Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Coordinator
On behalf of the HIFA2015 Steering Group

• British Nursing Index
• European Federation of Salaried Doctors
• Faculty of Public Health (UK)
• Indian Institute of Public Health (Hyderabad)
• Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba
• Syrian Medical Informatics Association
• University of Edinburgh Division of Community Health Sciences

In total, 65 organisations worldwide have now officially declared their commitment to the HIFA2015 goal. The full list of Supporting Organisations is available at www.hifa2015.org/support/

Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Coordinator
On behalf of the HIFA2015 Steering Group

We are delighted to welcome 7 new Supporting Organisations:

• Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health
• European Association of Senior Hospital Physicians
• Health Education to Villages
• Gonashasthya Kendra
• National Centre for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (Serbia)
• Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (India)
• Sherborne Gibbs Limited

In total, 58 organisations worldwide have now officially declared their commitment to the HIFA2015 goal. The full list of Supporting Organisations is available at www.hifa2015.org/support/

Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Coordinator
On behalf of the HIFA2015 Steering Group

HIFA supporter Jules Gale has completed a sponsored walk of *60 kilometres* (37 miles) across the South Downs, UK, including 930 metres of ascent. She achieved the feat on Saturday 9th May 2009, in 11 hours 56 minutes. Our congratulations and huge thanks to Jules and her sponsors, who have so far contributed £350. Sponsorship will remain open until 31st May. If you would like to contribute, please contact the coordinator at: neil.pakenham-walsh@ghi-net.org

• Brazilian National Institute of the Prostate
• COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
• Education for Health
• Ekgaon Technologies
• Global Education Development Institute
• Haiti Nursing Foundation
• INCLEN Trust (International Clinical Epidemiology Network)
• Medical Library Association
• Standing Committee of European Doctors

We look forward to working with the above organisations towards the HIFA2015 goal. The full list of 51 Supporting Organisations is available here.

Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Coordinator
On behalf of the HIFA2015 Steering Group