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Information services

The HRC information services include searchable databases of:

• research and related publications
• forthcoming events and training
• key organisations

The purpose of the HRC information services is to provide DFID staff with a resource to support the development of ongoing programmes and the knowledge aspects of professional standards laid out in the Competency Framework of the DFID health cadre. These services are made publicly available to support a wider audience of development policy makers and practitioners.

The Health Resource Centre works in partnership with the IDS Health & Development Information Team to provide the HRC information services. The HRC does this by building on and contributing to existing services: the Health, Health Systems and HIV and AIDS Resource Guides on Eldis and id21 Health.

Health Resource Guide on Eldis

The Health Resource Guide provides comprehensive and cross-cutting coverage of key health topic areas including:

• child health
• maternal and newborn health
• gender and health
• health promotion
• nutrition
• sexual and reproductive health
• TB, malaria and other communicable diseases.

In-depth coverage focuses on:

• maternal health and transport
• policy debates in maternal, newborn and child health
• sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Health Systems Resource Guide on Eldis

The Health Systems Resource Guide provides comprehensive and cross cutting coverage of key health systems topic areas including:

• access to medicines and international issues
• gender and health systems
• global initiatives and public-private partnerships
• governance and health
• health, poverty and vulnerability
• health service delivery
• national health sector financing
• primary health care.

The Health Systems Resource Guide features 3 detailed dossiers on cross-cutting issues:

• Health in fragile states, developed in collaboration between the Health and Fragile States Network, IDS Health and Development Information Team, and Eldis.
• Human resources for health, developed in collaboration between the DFID HRC, World Bank and World Health Organization.
• Meeting the health-related needs of the very poor, developed in collaboration between the DFID HRC and the Institute of Development Studies and the EU funded Povill Consortium.

Additional in-depth coverage focuses on:

• aid architecture in health
• health management information systems
• market development approaches to reproductive health
• user fees for health.

HIV and AIDS Resource Guide

The HIV and AIDS Resource Guide provides comprehensive and cross cutting coverage of key topic areas including:

• AIDS communication, training and advocacy
• children and young people
• gender
• health systems and HIV/AIDS
• prevention
• sexual and reproductive health
• transmission and testing
• treatment and care
• vulnerable groups

In-depth coverage includes:

• abstinence
• antiretrovirals
• the female condom
• microbicides
• National AIDS Commissions
• nutrition
• orphans and vulnerable children
• sexual and reproductive health
• violence against women

For more information, contact the HRC Knowledge and Information Manager: Sandra Baxter