Women's International Public Health Network (WIPHN) USA Expand view 7100 Oak Forest Lane Bethesda MD 208017
Francois Xavier Bagnoud Centre for Health and Human Rights|Harvard School of Public Health USA Expand view 651 Huntington Avenue Boston MA 02115 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter
Durbin plc UK USA Expand view Durbin House Unit 5 Swallowfield Way Hayes Middlesex UB3 1DQ Durbin is a specialist medical supply company that sources and distributes pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and consumable supplies to healthcare professionals in over 180 countries worldwide. There are offices in both the UK and USA.The company’s main divisions encompass everything from International Sales through Sales to NGO’s and Charities, Clinical Trials Supply, Managed Access Programs, Imported (Unlicensed Medicines), Sexual Health Supplies, and the storage and distribution of medical products and devices for third parties(In 2002 the trading division of the charity ECHO Health Services International was purchased to form Durbin's sales to NGO’s and Charities department) http://www.durbin.co.uk/
Women's International Network (WIN) News USA Expand view 187 Grant Street Lexington MA 02420-2126 WIN publishes WIN News, a worldwide communication system by, for and about women of all backgrounds, beliefs, nationalities and age groups. It also informs the general public, institutions and organisations by transmitting internationally information about women and women's groups. It offers technical assistance and consulting services for women's development. WIN also publishes the Childbirth Picture Book/Program, teaching materials on reproduction at a grassroots level, regardless of language or literacy, which includes coordinated books, flip charts and slides http://www.feminist.com/win.htm
International Health Programs (IHP) USA Expand view 210 High Street, Room 205 Santa Cruz CA 95060-3712 IHP has been in operation since 1979 and provides training, research and technical assistance to health care delivery and training organisations throughout the world. IHP conducts regularly scheduled workshops in California and selected sites overseas. Workshops focus on topics such as implementing HIV/AIDS programs, building and sustaining reproductive health services and total quality management / performance measure analysis http://www.ihp.org
Community Health Works of San Francisco USA Expand view 1600 Holloway Avenue HSS 301 San Francisco 94132 Focuses on the health of low income communities, in particular in the health of colored and immigrant communities. It is committed to the diversification of the health care workforce and the elimination of health disparities. Their programmes include the first college-based certificate for community health workers in the USA; an urban health oriented Drug and Alcohol Counsellor training programme; a programme to reintegrate internationally trained health professionals who have immigrated to the USA into the US health system; an urban asthma partnership; and the Regional Health Occupations Resource Centre, which disseminates innovative educational programmes to San Francisco Bay Area regional community colleges http://www.communityhealthworks.org
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) USA Expand view 130 West 42nd Street Suite 350 New York NY 10036-7802 The aim of SIECUS is to establish human sexuality as a health entity and believes that freedom to exercise personal sexual choice is a fundemental human right. SIECUS disseminates information by means of a resource centre and enquiry service and by publications and materials designed to be used by parents and teachers for sex education purposes. The resource centre is open to the public by appointment on Monday to Friday (12-5 pm) http://www.siecus.org
La Leche League International (LLLI) USA Expand view PO Box 4079 1400 N Meacham Road Schaumburg IL 60168.4079 LLLI aim to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, education, information, and encouragement and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother http://www.lalecheleague.org
Boston Women's Health Book Collective (BWHBC) USA Expand view PO Box 192 Somerville MA 02144 The Boston Women's Health Book Collective (BWHBC), best known for 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' and 'Nuestros Cuerpos', 'Nuestras Vidas', empowers women with information about health, sexuality and reproduction. We work in and for the public interest, promote equality between women and men, and build bridges among social justice movements http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org
Child Health Foundation (CHF) USA Expand view 10630 Little Patacent Parkway Century Plaza, Suite 325 Colombia MD 21044 Our purpose is to save the lives of children at the lowest possible cost. Thus we encourage use of breastfeeding, immunisation, oral rehyfration solutions to prevent dehydration and methods to prevent and treat malnutrition. In developing countries these activities save lives; in the US they save expensive medical treatment and hospitalisation http://www.childhealthfoundation.org
The Hesperian Foundation USA Expand view 1919 Addison Street 304 Berkeley California 94704 Hesperian Health Guides is a nonprofit health information and health education source that supports individuals and communities in their struggles to realise the right to health. They develop easy to read materials that are produced in many languages. http://www.hesperian.org
Global Health Action (GHA) USA Expand view PO Box 15086 Atlanta Georgia 30333 GHA provides life-changing health education and leadership training for health professionals and community health workers to create healthier communities around the globe. GHA conduct annual health leadership and management courses designed to give health professionals and community leaders the necessary skills to plan and implement health and development projects in their own communities http://www.globalhealthaction.org
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)- India USA Expand view PO Box 5747 New York NY 10163-5747 Aims to promote human rights for children and women; andreduce infant mortality maternal mortality, low birth weight and child labour. The resource centre is not open to the public http://www.unicef.org
World Neighbors Inc USA Expand view 4127 NW 122 Oklahoma City OK 73120 World Neighbors is a grassroots development organisation working in partnership with the rural poor in hundreds of villages throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America. WN brings people together to solve their problems and meet theur basic needs. By supporting community self-reliance, leadership and organisation, WN helps people address the root cause of hunger, poverty and disease. Programme priorities are food production, community-based health, family planning, water and sanitation, environmental conservation, and small business http://www.wn.org
Enterpriseworks Worldwide USA Expand view 1828 L Street NW Suite 1000 Washington DC 20036 Enterprise Works Worldwide generates economic growth and fights poverty in Afirca, Asia and Latin America through market-based development programmes that promote profitablity, environmentally sustainable microenterprises. By systematically improving production, processing and marketing, EnterpriseWorks helps small-scale farmers and manufacturers increase productivity, expand operations, form new regional and international business links, and ultimately capture more of the value of their products EnterpriseWorks focuses on five progrsmme areas: Coffee and tree crops, Energy, Farming & Food Processing, Livestock, and Natural Products http://www.enterpriseworks.org
