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Web Resources

Ministry of Health

This is the web page for the Government of Kenya, Ministry of Health. The web page provides various updates on health issues in Kenya

Kenya Medical Research Institute

The Kenya Medical Research Institute is a medical research centre in East Africa. It is located in Kenya's capital, Nairobi. Established in 1979, KEMRI has played an important role in the fight against malaria, HIV/AIDS, and other diseases in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole.

Kenya Paediatric Association

The Kenya Paediatric Association (KPA) is an association whose principal members are paediatricians practicing in Kenya but includes researchers, paediatricians in training and any other cadres of health workers as associates.

The web page provides access to useful learning resources.

American Academy of Pediatrics

The American Academy of Pediatrics is a professional association dedicated to the health of all children

The web page provides access to useful professional resources.

European Paediatric Association

The European Paediatric Association (EPA) is a pan-European scientific association which is the Union of National European Paediatric Societies and Association (EPA-UNEPSA). The main objective of EPA-UNEPSA is to encourage scientific co-operation between not-for-profit National European Paediatric Societies/Associations and between European paediatricians working in primary, secondary and tertiary paediatric care in Europe, in order to promote child health and comprehensive paediatric care.

World Health Organization

The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution, which establishes the agency's governing structure and principles, states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health

Trip

Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.Trip has been online since 1997 and in that time has developed into the internet’s premier source of evidence-based content.

PROSPERO

The International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews, better known as PROSPERO, is an open access online database of systematic review protocols on health-related topics. Researchers can choose to have their reviews prospectively registered with PROSPERO.

BioMed Central

BioMed Central is a United Kingdom-based, for-profit scientific open access publisher that produces over 250 scientific journals. All its journals are published online only. BioMed Central describes itself as the first and largest open access science publisher.

FreeBooks4Doctors.com

FreeBooks4Doctors.com is a Web site that offers over 600 links to a variety of resources.Provides over 300 free medical books and book-like websites.

FreeMedicalJournals.com

FreeMedicalJournals.com is exactly what it sounds like, a list of links to medical journals that offer free access. Provides over 4000 free medical journals.

 

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