Red Ribbon Centre (RRC)|UNAIDS Collaborating Centre for Technical Support Hong Kong Expand view 2/F Wnag Tai Hom Jockey Club Clinic 200 Junction Road East Hong Kong Its mission is to facilitate and enhance the community's response to HIV/AIDS. It aims to do this by promoting community participation in AIDS education and research; enhancing the development of quality AIDS education programmes; facilitating the development of social, behavioural and epidemiological research on HIV/AIDS in Hong Kong and the region; and providing an avenue for local and international collaboration in the fight against HIV/AIDS http://www.info.gov.hk/aids
Secretariat of the Pacific Community New Caledonia Expand view B P D5 Noumea Cedex 98848 SPC is a technical organisation providing training and assistance in social, economic and cultural fields to 22 countries. It produces the journal Pacific Health Dialogue and has an AIDS Information programme. Hosts a regional email HIV/AIDS news/discussion group (AIDSTalk) for the Pacific Islands only. Also operates an AIDS/STD resource centre which is open to the public. http://www.spc.int/
Banteay Srei Cambodia Expand view PO Box 529 Phnom Penh Aims to improve the standard of living and the well-being of poor women and their families, by working with women to reduce their vulnerability and low social status. The Banteay Srei project therefore works to improve women's economic and social empowerment through activities focusing on food and economic security for women and their families; awareness raising about women's rights and reproductive health; strengthening women's groups and their management skills; building self-confidence and leadership; and through advocacy for women's rights. The resource centre is not open to the public
Women's Action for Change (WAC) Fiji Expand view PO Box 12398 Suva Aims to empower women, in particular less privileged women through direct action research and advocacy, enabling them to develop thir full potential to control and direct their lives. Promote shared family responsibility in order to advance the status of the woman. They do this through community theatre group, child care for governement workers' children
Media Matters India Expand view Plot 400 Sai Section Ambernath 421501 Maharashtra Aims to create awareness of and motivate people towards participatory voluntary work for development; to document analyse and disseminate information about developmental efforts; to work for in the field of media documentation research, experimentation, development, producton and dissemination; to intervene in poor communtiies and work on rights based issuess; and to network with organisations and individuals to strengthen the development process. The resource centre is open to the public
African Women's Welfare Group (AWWG) UK Expand view 594 High Road Tottenham London N17 9TA AWWG's vision is to advance the cause of African and their families through advocacy, patronage and promotion within the general population and the State apparatus. It aims to bring together a wide range of institutions in health, social services and welfare; to mobilise, harness and maximixe available resources; to understand the variety of beliefs, theories and models of practice in operation and their impact on service provision; and to address inadequacies in service provision and redress poor access to services and amenities none
Key Centre for Women's Health|University of Melbourne Australia Expand view Victoria 3010 This is a post-graduate teaching and research centre. Aims to investigate women's health through a multi-disciplinary perspective. Collaborating centre with WHO http://www.kcwh.unimelb.edu.au
IMPACT UK Expand view 151 Western Road Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 3LH Impact's aim is that no-one should become disabled through disease, lack of knowledge or shortage of medical services. With effective delivery of today's know-how, it believes that, given the will and resources, it should be possible to reduce by one third the incidence of avoidable disability in developing countries, while at the same time helping to break the link between ageing and disability in industrialised countries like their own http://www.impact.org
Outreach|Television Trust for the Environment USA (TVE USA) USA Expand view PO Box 820 Shelburne VT 05482 Outreach Goal: To help improve the lifestyles and the environment of children and the poor in the developing world by supporting community based health and envionmental programmes through the provision of learning materials and by increasing awareness in industrialised countries of global environmenal and health issues, particularly the way in which they affect children and the poor in the developing world
Uganda Reproductive Health Bureau (URHB) Uganda Expand view PO Box 24497 Kampala URHB's objectives are to ensure that young people get access to services and information that will improve their health; to provide access to family planning services/skills through direct service delivery, to provide education and information for rural women; to provide essential services in adolescent reproductive and sexual health and counselling; and to provide IEC materials and publications. It runs 2 adolescent health clinics of 10 beds
Mujahid Education Trust (MET) India Expand view PO Box 60 17/194-A M'Square Complex, Pavamani Road Calicut 673 001 The association works for the economic, educational, social and moral advancement of people, in particular, Muslims, deprived classes, and scheduled castes and tribes. It works for the establishment of educational institutions, training centres, workshops and industries so as to provide employment to women in the deprived sections of the community. It organises programmes to establish cultural centres, hostels, destitute homes, balwadies and nutritional centres, and works for the establishment of hospitals, relief camps and other medical aid programmes. It also organises camps, courses, and literacy programmes for the wefare of children, youth and women; advocates for the publicaiton of periodicals, books and the establishment of libraries; fosters the improvement of the evaluation of socio-economic programmes; and works in the field of drug abuse prevention and addiction http://www.awhonline.org
National Office of Family and Population (ONFP) Tunisia Expand view 42 Avenue de Madrid 1002 Tunis Aims to control population growth, increase the number of employed people, increase the school population, improve maternal and child health, and control social service expenditure. The resource centre is open to the public
India Development Group (UK) (IDG UK Ltd) UK Expand view 68 Downlands Road Purley Surrey CR8 4JF IDG's mission is to work with partner organisations in India to combat poverty and unemployment in rural areas of India by equipping the rural poor with skills to help themselves achieve sustainable economic viability and to increase their productive participation in community life through self-employment and income generation. This is achieved through working in areas such as appropriate technology, primary healthcare, women's empowerment and working with civil society groups http://www.idguk.org
Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) Zimbabwe Expand view University of Zimbabwe Obstetrics & Gynecology PO Box ST 220 Southerlan Harare
African Council of AIDS Service Organisations (AFRICASO) Senegal Expand view B P 3370 54 Rue Carnot Dakar Aims to strengthen and network among organisations and groups working on HIV/AIDS at the national and regional levels; advocate for the interests of communittes and community-based organisations working on HIV/AIDS and to promote the development of the capacity of the AIDS service organisations to lobby for their interests; and exchange and facilitate the sharing of appropriate, practical and timely information in HIV/AIDS with and among organisations working onHIV/AIDS in Africa. The resource centre is open to the public http://www.africaso.org
