New AHILA web site
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The Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa
(AHILA) is a professional association founded in 1984 with now 46
country members and many partners and collaborators worldwide.
AHILA is launching its new web site:
AHILA aims to:
* Improve the provision of up-to-date and relevant information to
health and medical workers in Africa
* Encourage the professional development of librarianship
* Promote the development of resource-sharing and exchange of experi-
ences and information among African health information professionals
* Promote the development, standardisation, and exchange of national
databases of medical and health literature produced in the African
countries in the form of an African Index Medicus
AHILA is the point of contact where a wide range of information pro-
fessionals meet. The target audience is healthcare and biomedical li-
brarians, documentalists, journalists and others involved in the man-
agement and dissemination of medical and health of medical and
health-related information.
Ahila runs biennial congresses. It publishers a quarterly bulletin
AHILA News in English and French and in collaboration with the World
Health Organization produce the African Index Medicus (AIM), which
provides health resources from several countries in Africa. The Na-
tional Inquiry Services Centre (NISC) also publishes AIM on CD-ROM.
For more information contact:
Ibrahima Bob
Office and Information Manager
Africa Consultants International (ACI)
B.P. 5270, Dakar-Fann, Senegal
Tel.:B +221-824-83-38 Dom: +221-653-8396
Fax: B +221-824-0741 / eFax: + 801-740-9578
mailto:bobibrahim@yahoo.com
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