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Hardin MD - Tropical Diseases (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French)
The site is a gateway to tropical medicine related websites,
presented in 35 major categories, each with subcategories and
interlinking, with special attention for pictures. It is
maintained at the University of Iowa.
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/tropical.html
Health and Research Topics (NIAID)
The site summarizes the health and research activities of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, U.S. Arranged by broad subject headings (e.g. AIDS/HIV, Anthrax, Bacterial Infections, Neglected Tropical Diseases), each topic has a summary of the disease, NIAID's activities, news releases and links to information about the subject from other U.S. government sources. This is a good source of clinical and research information for topics that have impact on health in developing countries.
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/tropicaldiseases/Pages/Default.aspx
Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp: Links to Selected Websites (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site is a subject based list of links to numerous
tropical medicine and infectious diseases websites. Subject
categories include microbiology, infectious diseases,
tropical medicine and parasitology, parasitic diseases,
medical entomology, disease outbreaks and epidemiology and
travel medicine. The site is maintained by the Library of the
Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium.
http://lib.itg.be/biblinks.htm
MédecineTropicale (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French only)
This is a major gateway for French language information on
tropical medicine related subjects: societies, institutes,
education, individual diseases, travel health advice. The
site is well indexed (MeSH based), easily searchable, with
various presentation formats. It is maintained by CISMeF
(Catalogue et Index des Sites
Médicaux Francophones), France.
http://www.chu-rouen.fr/ssf/profes/medecinetropicale.html
TropIKA (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical
Diseases (TDR) has established TropIKA - a global knowledge
management electronic portal to share essential information
and to facilitate identification of priority needs and major
research gaps in the field of infectious diseases of poverty.
It contains research and review articles, reports, news
articles and editorial opinions plus a TropIKA blog.
http://www.tropika.net/
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