Electronic Newsletters on Population and Reproductive Health

Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD)

http://www.acpd.ca/acpd.cfm/en/section/FridayFacts
ACPD distributes a bi-monthly electronic newsletter, titled Friday Facts/Faits de Vendredi, featuring useful information about population, health, and women's issues around the world. Past issues may be read online. To subscribe to the mailing list, please visit the website.

Adolescent Forum (International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere)

http://www.ippfwhr.org/publications/publications_by_topic_e.aspx?CategoryID=15&CategoryName=youth
Adolescent Forum is IPPF/WHR's electronic newsletter on sexual and reproductive health programs for adolescents. Past issues may be read online. To subscribe to the adolescent forum, please visit http://www.ippfwhr.org/publications/subscribe_e.asp.

Advocates for Youth

http://www.advocatesforyouth.org
Advocates for Youth distrubutes quarterly issues of Transitions, Advocates' newsletter for professionals and advocates, through its mailing list, which updates readers on a variety of health and sexuality issues facing adolescents. Topics include legislative issues, evaluated programs, services, and new initiatives. You will also receive other materials periodically that pertain to adolescent sexual health. To subscribe to the mailing list, please visit http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/about/mailinglist.htm.

Asian Development Bank (ADB): Partnership Newsletter

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Periodicals/NGO_Newsletters/default.asp
Partnership Newsletter is published six times a year by ADB's Office of External Relations in conjunction with the NGO Center. News articles highlight work at the bank of particular interest to NGO partners, and each issue features the work of one NGO. The May–June 2003 issue, for example, describes the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Each issue also lists upcoming events and recent documents available from ADB. Current and previous issues may be read online. To subscribe, send an e-mail to partnership-request@intraweb.asiandevbank.org and place "subscribe desiredpassword" or "subscribe" (without the quotes) in the body of the message.

Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD)

http://www.afppd.org/
AFPPD publishes a bi-monthly electronic newsletter, the Asian Forum Newsletter, that describes their activities. AFPPD also produces an E-mail Information Service. The aim is to keep enlisted parties informed of their current activities as well as other related news in the area of population and development. Current and previous issues may be read online. To receive the newsletter or information service, contact Mr. Shiv Khare, Executive Director of AFPPD, at afppd@inet.co.th

Australian Reproductive Health Alliance (ARHA)

http://www.arha.org.au
ARHA has just launched an electronic bulletin. Published every two weeks, each issue will concentrate on one or two key news items and will include detailed information about ARHA activities and publications, as well as advocacy ideas. The first issue contains news, opinions, press releases, and statements on US President Bush's decision to withdraw funding for UNFPA. It also contains some useful weblinks for population/healath advocates and reports on ARHA activities, submissions, papers, and press releases. To subscribe to the newsletter, visit http://www.arha.org.au/email_join.htm.

Center for the Advancement of Health

http://www.cfah.org/
The Center for the Advancement of Health publishes HABIT, an electronic newsletter for researchers and others seeking to raise the priority of and resources devoted to health and behavior research. Each issue contains news, updates on funding and policy issues, opportunities to take action and links to information, as well as links to listings of funding sources, conferences, calls for submissions and career opportunities. To subscribe to HABIT, visit http://www.cfah.org/habit/subscribe.cfm. To view back issues, go to http://www.cfah.org/habit/past_issues.cfm. To contribute information, resources or announcements, send an e-mail to habit@cfah.org

Contraceptive Pearls (United States Agency for International Development—USAID)

http://www.jhuccp.org/pearls/
Jim Shelton's Contraceptive Pearls are interesting in their own right and also interesting as an information-dissemination format. . Toward the end of March 2001, for example, Jim asked readers to guess how many condoms per man (age 15-59) are provided annually by donors to programs in Africa. The answer is 3. Based on best available (and fairly complete) data, in 1999 donors provided about 500 million condoms for the approximately 156 million men 15-59 in subsaharan Africa. This number was up from the 316 million in 1998, but markedly down from the peak level of about 800 million condoms in 1995. An archive of past Pearls can be found on the website. To receive Pearls by e-mail, contact Jim at jshelton@usaid.gov

Drum Beat

http://www.comminit.com/drum_beat.html
The email and web network from The Communication Initiative Partnership—The Rockefeller Foundation, BBC World Service, The CHANGE Project, CIDA, The European Union, Exchange, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, The Panos Institute, Soul City, UNAIDS, UNICEF, USAID, WHO. The goal is to improve strategic communication thinking on development issues. Subscription information is on the website.

Earth Policy Institute

http://www.earth-policy.org
The Earth Policy Institute is dedicated to providing a vision of what an environmentally sustainable economy—an eco-economy—looks like, as well as a roadmap of how to get from here to there. The Institute maintains a free Earth Policy News email list. Subscribers receive the Institute's monthly Eco-Economy Updates and press releases and learn about the Institute's new books as soon as they are published. Subscription information is on the website.

Health Communication Materials Network

http://www.hcmn.org/
Organizations involved in the development/design/production/collection of health communication materials are invited to join the Health Communication Materials Network (HCMN). The Health Communication Materials Network was established to provide a forum for specialists worldwide to share their materials and experiences/lessons learned, find out what their colleagues around the world are doing in health communication materials development, and to provide or receive suggestions and help. Membership offers: 1) A weekly e-mail listing the newest materials that have been produced, with information provided by members of the network. 2) A web site highlighting the latest project materials developed by you and your colleagues. 3) A Listserv where you can post questions and raise issues to discuss via email with health communication professionals around the world. 4) A newsletter highlighting materials and projects of your colleagues. The HCMN has been launched by the Media/Materials Clearinghouse, a collection of over 40,000 samples of health communication materials produced worldwide, which is part of the Johns Hopkins Population Information Program. To join, send an e-mail to Margaret D'Adamo, Coordinator of the Network, at mdadamo@jhuccp.org and describe why you want to join. Please also provide your: Name, Title, Organization, Address, City, State, Postal Code, Country, Phone, Fax, and E-mail.

HNPFlash (World Bank)

http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hnp/hddflash/contents.htm
HNPFLASH is a monthly electronic newsletter on recent trends and developments in the fields of education, health, nutrition, population, and reproductive health. The newsletter serves as a bulletin to announce breakthrough technology, new publications, project updates, conference and training information, job vacancies, grant opportunities, and information on other related electronic resources available on the Internet. The archive provides subscribers with e-mail access to over 400 documents in English, French and Spanish. Typical issues include articles, abstracts of publications, a section on "Cool tools and websites," a calendar of upcoming conferences and training events, and job notices. To subscribe, contact majordomo@jazz.worldbank.org. In the subject line, type Subscription. In the body of the message, type subscribe hnpflash your e-mail address (e.g. subscribe hnpflash JDoe@internet.com).

The International Gender and Education Office (GEO) of the International Council of Adult Education (ICAE)

http://www.web.net/icae/ and http://www.repem.org.uy
International Gender and Education Office of ICAE produces an electronic newsletter called Voices Rising. The newsletter features articles about women's issues and women's education, mostly from a South perspective. To subscribe, send an e-mail to laredva@repem.org.uy

International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

http://www.ippf.org
IPPF News is a free electronic news service provided by the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Messages contain international news highlights and summaries of important publications on sexual and reproductive health and rights. To subscribe, unsubscribe or update your profile, go to http://www.ippf.org/newsinfo/subs/.

Kaiser Daily Health Reports (Kaiser Family Foundation)

http://www.kaisernetwork.org/email_alert/email.cfm
Stay informed about health policy issues, news, and events through a free subscription to any or all of the following:
– Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report, and Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report keep you in touch with the latest news, highlighting legislative, political, legal, scientific, and business developments in these areas and providing links to the full text of articles.
– Kaiser First Edition, available each weekday morning at 8:30, provides headlines and links to the day's top stories and events.
– Customized Weekly Reports on health policy, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS allow you to select only those stories of interest to you from the week's Daily Reports.
– HealthCast Emails let you know about upcoming webcasts.
– AdWatch Updates alert you to new health policy issue ads.
Subscription information is on the website.

You can access The Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report on their website or receive the report by e-mail. Please visit the website to register for the e-mail version. A typical issue contains articles on public health and education, reproductive health services, women's health policy, HIV/AIDS, abortion, and other topics.

Partners in Population and Development

http://www.south-south.org
LINKS is the e-mail bulletin of the Secretariat of Partners in Population and Development, an APA/ICPD member organization. The mission of Partners is to help implement the Cairo Program of Action by expanding and improving South-to-South collaboration in the fields of family planning and reproductive health. The Secretariat provides a central point for networking among Partner countries and for identifying opportunities for South-to-South exchanges and sources of financial support. LINKS contains articles and information on events, conferences and workshops, notices of funding opportunities, and links to other electronic and print resources on reproductive health. The emphasis is on south-to-south collaboration. To join the distribution list for LINKS, send an e-mail to partners@ppdsec.org and be sure to include "LINKS" in the subject line. Or check out the Partners website.

Population Council: Frontiers in Reproductive Health

http://www.popcouncil.org/frontiers/
Cynthia P. Green, with the Population Council's project, Frontiers in Reproductive Health, distributes interesting bits of information on family planning and reproductive health. A recent example was an announcement that the World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidelines recommending exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of an infant's life. Other recent messages contained a brief description of the Protectaid contraceptive sponge and a summary of a report on the dynamics of female condom use in urban Zimbabwe. Contact the list manager at listmanager@list.popcouncil.org or Cynthia at cgreen@pcdc.org.

Population Reference Bureau (PRB)

http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=listserv&template=/listserv/subscribe.cfm
E-Mail News is issued periodically when PRB produces major new publications or Web postings. The objective is to provide access to the latest information on important population issues as well as US and international population trends and their implications. PRB also provides an E-Library email service. Each issue of E-Library features selected material on a specific topic. This automated service provides users with access to vital data and analysis from PRB.

RAND: Population Matters

http://www.rand.org/popmatters
The RAND News Bulletin sends e-mails announcing recent publications and results from their studies as they appear. To receive their announcements check their website at http://www.rand.org/publications/email.html.

Supply Initiative

http://www.rhsupplies.org/takeaction/takeaction_inform.php
The Supply Initiative has been set up to call attention to the current crisis in reproductive health supplies and to increase the availability and efficient use of human, institutional, and financial resources for reproductive health supplies. The Supply Initiative publishes a monthly electronic newsletter, Supplynews. To receive the newsletter, please visit their website.

United Nations Foundation: UN Wire

http://www.unfoundation.org [currently being upgraded]
UN Wire is a daily news summary covering a wide range of issues including health, environment and development; women and population; human rights; UN reform; and peacekeeping and security. A new edition is posted to the website each day. Subscription information is on the website.

United Nations Non-Governmental Organization Informal Regional Network (UN-NGO-IRENE)

http://www.unpan.org/NGO.asp
The goal of this network is to strengthen partnership between the United Nations and
non-governmental organizations. Electronic newsletters are posted on the website with information on how to subscribe.

Women's eNews

http://www.womensenews.org/join.cfm
Women's eNews is a nonprofit independent news service covering the issues that are of particular concern to women. Women's eNews editor, Rita Henley Jensen and staff have nearly a half-century of journalism experience with newspapers, wire services and national publications and are determined to deliver full and balanced reporting to Women's eNews readers. Women's eNews has been widely tapped by other media from coast to coast and around the globe, from such leading media outlets as The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, The Buffalo News, San Jose Mercury, The Birmingham News, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Spokane Spokesman-Leader and MSNBC to newspapers in Kuala Lampur and the Philippines. To subscribe, please visit the website.

World Health Organization: Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER)

http://www.who.ch/wer/
The WER serves as an essential instrument for the rapid and accurate dissemination of epidemiological information on cases and outbreaks of diseases, communicable diseases including newly or re-emerging infections, noncommunicable diseases, and other health problems. It is distributed every Friday in English and French. To subscribe, send an e-mail to majordomo@who.ch. The subject field should be left blank and the body of the message should contain only the line "subscribe wer-reh."

Youth Awareness: 2003 Global Health Council Conference Supplement Our Future on Common Ground: Health and the Environment

http://www.fhi.org/youthnet
This supplement is intended to provide complementary information to our on-going evidence-based literature found in Youth
Awareness. For the past seven months, YouthNet has disseminated Youth Awareness to Family Health International, FHI, staff in the North Carolina and DC offices. Unfortunately, copyright restrictions limit distribution beyond FHI staff. This electronic publication provides references, and often abstracts, of the most recent literature on youth, reproductive health, and HIV prevention compiled monthly from more than 30 journals. This is the first time these type of materials are being made available to all researchers, programmers, and policy makers working with and for adolescents around the world. To subscribe to YouthNet's electronic mailing list send an e-mail with your request to youthnetpubs@fhi.org .

This page is maintained by Jenny Ng and Sidney B. Westley. It was last updated on 11 August 2003.

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