Within the next years, many important medical textbooks will be available online, free and in full-text. The access to free scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice. The FreeBooks4Doctors Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the Internet.

The Getting Research into Policy and Practice (GRIPP) website is a practical resource to support researchers ‘get their research into policy and practice’ (GRIPP). It aims to document and disaggregate the processes and strategies used by researchers to maximise the impact of their research on policy and practice.

This site addresses global health, and more importantly, the link between domestic and international health issues. The following points convey the key messages for the web site: * The health of Americans is a global concern. * A healthy America depends on a healthy world. * The primary mandate of HHS is to protect the health of the American people. * The direct interests of the United States are best served when America acts decisively to promote health around the world. * Addressing health globally enhances America's stature overseas and its own national security.

At the World Health Assembly in May 2003, the Peoples Health Movement, together with GEGA and Medact discussed the need for civil society to produce its own alternative World Health Report. It was felt that the WHO reports were inadequate that there was no report that monitored the performance of global health institutions and, that the dominant neo-liberal discourse in public health policy also needed to be challenged by a more people-centred approach that highlights social justice.

TDR supports goal-oriented research. Research opportunities and priorities - defined in the various Steering Committee and Task Force workplans - should be studied before submitting a grant application. In addition to the research opportunities outlined in the scientific workplans, specific research proposals and letters of interest can be called for at any time of year.

This handbook is not intended to be an antibiotic textbook nor to replace the antibiotic section of the SAMF. Its function is to indicate the GSH antibiotic recommendations and to provide some additional therapeutic suggestions for a number of clinical situations.

A selected list of free-to-all full-text general medical journals

HDN is a non-profit organisation with substantial experience in managing and moderating electronic discussion forums and providing communication support to conferences. The mission of HDN is to mobilize a more effective response to HIV/AIDS and other health-and-development-related issues by improving information, communication and the quality of debate.

Is based at the Department of Public Health at the University of Cape Town. The HEU has compiled a database of public sector health care expenditure in South Africa and offers a number of formal training courses.