Monthly Archives: August 2015
Connecting Frontline Health Workers to resources through ORB
This is a library of audio-visual resources for the training of front-line health workers covering maternal and child health care and nutrition. Some are long others quite short. Suitability for the type of device and language can be chosen. You … Continue reading
Information and the new UN Sustainable Goals
The Cape Town Declaration 2015 Ministers and country representatives from 13 African countries met to discuss the status of libraries and implementation of access to information agenda at a meeting on 14 August 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Cape Town Declaration, IFLA, UN Sustainable Goals
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The New UN Sustainable Development Goals
For those of you who, like me, had a hazy idea of all the new UN Sustainable Goals (SDGs replacing the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs) this is a list of all 17 of them. I am sure that shared and … Continue reading
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Tagged SDGs, UN Sustainable Development Goals
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New video on breastfeeding- and -mobile application to dispel sexual and reproductive myths
Global Health Media Project has produced a new set of videos designed to help breastfeeding mothers. Nine new videos—narrated in English, French, Spanish, and (soon) Swahili—will help mothers by providing practical information on “how to” skills and problem management. View on-line or … Continue reading
Health Information Updates to and from Africa 