Key documents relating to South Africa's drug policy and essential drugs
programme have been converted into electronic format to improve the
accessibility of these documents.
This has been done by HealthLink, a project of
the Health Systems Trust established to help meet the communication and
information needs of health workers in South Africa, in
collaboration with SADAP and the Department of Health.
The documents are available on the HealthLink WWW site at:
http://www.healthlink.org.za
under Info Resources
OR alternatively (if your browser does not support frames):
http://www.healthlink.org.za/hst/edl/edlinfo.htm
(Essential Drugs List)
http://www.healthlink.org.za/hst/ndp/a.htm
(National Drug Policy)
The EDL is also available in Adobe portable document format (PDF),
which is suitable for off-line use i.e. for those without
internet access. HealthLink is also a South African mirror site
for the WHO Guide to Good Prescribing (also under Info Resources).
Please feel free to disseminate the above information to others in
the health sector, or include in any publications which you are
involved with.
We also invite you to send any information / documentation regarding
health or drug policy to HealthLink for wider distribution.
We can disseminate information via the Internet, and to nearly
600 health workers throughout South Africa via email.
Please feel free to contact me if you require any further information,
or would like to discuss the electronic file formats which we use
for information dissemination.
regards,
Candy Day
Information Manager candy@healthlink.org.za
HealthLink, Health Systems Trust
Tel: +27 31 3072954 http://www.healthlink.org.za
Fax: +27 31 3040775
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