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The following selection of Web sites does
not necessarily represent the views or opinions
of the project members, the Institute,
collaborative parrtners in Botswana, Namibia, and Mozambique, or
other organizations supporting this work. References obtained from
any of these sites do not constitute an endorsement or warranty
by IIASA of any specific product, process, or service.
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National Web Sites
- HIV/AIDS
- Population and Society
- Economy and Poverty
- Environment, Water, and Agriculture
- General Country Information
- African On-line
- Libraries
- News
NATIONAL
WEB SITES
Government Web sites in Africa, http://www.africainformation.co.uk/govsites1.htm
Botswana
Namibia
Mozambique
- Central Statistics Office, http://www.ine.gov.mz/
- Mozambique Home Page, http://www.mozambique.mz/
- Maputo Home Page, http://www.maputo.org.mz/index1.html
- Ministry on Environmental Coordination
Action, http://www.sdnp.org.mz/
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries,
http://www.map.gov.mz/
- National Directorate of Water, http://www.dna.mz/
- Ministry of Education, http://www.mined.gov.mz/
- Eduardo Mondlane University, http://www.uem.mz/
- Catholic University of Mozambique, http://www.sdnp.org.mz/entidade/catolica/default.htm
- Permanent Mission of the Republic of
Mozambique to the United Nations, http://www.undp.org/missions/mozambique/
HIV/AIDS
- The Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV (UNAIDS): Epidemic updates, reports by country and subject,
programs, governance, graphics and more. http://www.unaids.org/
- UNAIDS World AIDS Day, http://www.unaids.org/wac/2000/wad00/presskit_wad.html
at the UNAIDS World AIDS Campaign site, http://www.unaids.org/wac/2000/index.html
- A sub-page of the UNAIDS, the Health
and Human Resources Analysis for Africa - HHRAA, was created to
increase the utilization of research, analysis, and information
to improve health, nutrition, education, and family planning strategies,
policies, and programs in Africa. http://www.usaid.gov/regions/afr/hhraa/
- The HIV/AIDS page of the World Bank,
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hivaids/default.htm
- The World Health Organization (WHO),
Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CSR), HIV Page:
Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic (June 2000) and
Epidemiological Fact Sheets by country for the year 2000
and more information about HIV/AIDS, http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/hiv/index.html
- The United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) HIV/AIDS information site, http://www.undp.org/hiv/
- Conference proceedings of the National
Conference on HIV/AIDS in Botswana, August 6-9, 1997, Grand Palm
Hotel, Gaborone, Botswana: http://www.healthnet.org/programs/procaare/conferences/indexbot.html
- The International AIDS Economic Network
(IAEN) is an informal group of researchers, policymakers, consultants,
NGOs, development agencies, multilateral, universities and others.
The site focuses on the economics of AIDS in developing countries
and includes data, news about conferences, and discussion platforms.
http://www.iaen.org/
- The AEGIS Web source defines itself as
the largest HIV/AIDS Web site of the world, and collects cross-sectoral
information on HIV/AIDS. http://www.aegis.com/
- The International Labor Organization
(ILO), HIV/AIDS and the World of Work, information on labor related
issues, conference proceedings and publications. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/trav/aids/
- HIV/AIDS Policy Compendium Database,
consists of a broad collection of national policies, laws, etc.
and international resolutions related to HIV/AIDS. http://209.27.118.7/
- The African Development Forum (ADF) is
an initiative led by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
to position an African-driven development agenda that reflects
a consensus among major partners and that leads to specific programs
for country implementation. http://www.uneca.org/adf2000/
- The Project page of The Futures Group
International links to current and past projects, publications
and software on HIV/AIDS studies around the world. http://www.tfgi.com/projects.asp
- Another free AIDS scenario software is
provided at the University of Ulm, Faculty of Mathematics and
Economics, Department of Health Economics Web page. http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/he/sonstiges/aids.eng.html
- The AIDS Virtual Library at the University
of Ulm in Germany deals with the social, political, and medical
aspects of AIDS, HIV, and related issues. http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/he/sonstiges/aids.eng.html
- HIV Sequence Database, HIV-Maps to retrieve
sequences by accession number, gene, subtype and country, nomenclature
on other medical and analytical topics.
http://hiv-web.lanl.gov/index.html
- ArtAIDS was created as "a creative Web
site commemorating and celebrating the fight against AIDS" http://www.illumin.co.uk/artaids/
- Information on activities of the European
Commission, Directorate for Development, on the "EU HIV/AIDS programme
in developing countries" http://europa.eu.int/comm/development/aids/
- The U.S. Census Bureau with its HIV/AIDS
Surveillance Database is one of the most powerful Web sites in
terms of downloadable datasets of many nations worldwide. http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/hivaidsn.html
- The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
(IAVI) provides information about AIDS vaccine development, press
release information and other background information. http://www.iavi.org/
- The Global Treatment Access Campaign
(GTAC) is a global network for communication and organization
towards access to essential medications for HIV and other diseases.
http://www.globaltreatmentaccess.org/
- The International Community of Women
Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), http://www.icw.org/
- HIV InSite is a project of the University
of California San Francisco (UCSF) Positive Health Program at
San Francisco. http://hivainsite.ucsf.edu/
- General Hospital Medical Center (http://sfghaids.ucsf.edu/)
and the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/capsweb/)
are programs of the UCSF AIDS Research Institute (http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/ar/.
The Web site HIV InSite tries to provide a platform to represent
viewpoints on many controversial aspects of AIDS. The sub-page
LINKS is a well-sorted and structured AIDS-Links site. http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/resources/
- Aidsnet.ch, http://www.aidsnet.ch/e/,
is designed for people working in HIV/AIDS prevention, people
living with HIV/AIDS and all those interested in the matter. The
service is provided by AIDS Info Docu Switzerland, the Swiss national
HIV/AIDS documentation center in Berne. http://aidsnet.ch/aid/e_overview.htm
- iClinic's AIDS page, http://www.iclinic.co.za/topics/aids/aids.htm
- The Official Webcast of the XIII International
AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa, 9-14 July 2000 XIII International
AIDS Conference in Durban,
http://www.aids2000.com/
- National Institute of Allergy Diseases:
News and Events Related to the XIII International AIDS Conference,
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/durban/durbancon.htm
- IAPAC Online, Abstracts, Posters, Analysis
and Commentaries of the Conference, http://www.iapac.org/durban.html
- The Body: An AIDS and HIV Information
Source, http://www.thebody.com/confs/durban/aids2000.html
POPULATION
AND SOCIETY
- The United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), Information, Regional and National Population Information
- Africa, http://www.undp.org/popin/regional/africa/index.htm
- The complete datasets of the DHS - Demographic
and Health Surveys, which provide information on population, health,
and nutrition, can be downloaded for scientific research for free
at Macro International's Home Page. http://www.measuredhs.com/
- The United Nations Statistics Division
provides a wide range of statistical outputs (demographic, social,
economics, and environment statistics) and services for producers
and users of statistics worldwide. http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/
- The Center for International Earth Science
Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University is a helpful
gateway to information. http://www.ciesin.org
- The International Data Base (IDB) of
the U.S. Census Bureau is a computerized data bank containing
statistical tables of demographic, and socioeconomic data for
227 countries and areas of the world. http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html
- The United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) provides education statistics
from all over the world. http://www.unesco.org/
- World Bank, Statistics in Africa, http://www4.worldbank.org/afr/stats/.
This site aims to bring together information and resources related
to statistics in Africa, both from within the World Bank and from
many other sources identified by World Bank staff.
- United Nations Population Information
Network of the UNDP (POPIN), http://www.undp.org/popin/
- This POPIN-Africa Web site, http://www.un.org/Depts/eca/divis/fssd/popin/,
has been developed for the African Development Forum (Addis Ababa,
1999). The partners in this initiative are the global POPIN, the
FSSD-Division of the ECA and UNFPA. It is a first attempt to present
a collection of population information resources on the Web produced
in and by African institutions.
- Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE)
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/
- Population Index, the on-line search
is possible until the issue of Winter 1999 (Volume 65, Number
4). http://popindex.princeton.edu/
- The International Union for the Scientific
Study of Population (IUSSP) promotes scientific studies of demography
and population-related issues. http://www.iussp.org/
- Ethnologue, Languages of the World, edited
by Barbara F. Grimes, SIL International, http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/
ECONOMY
and POVERTY
- United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa (ECA), established in 1958, with its headquarters in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia, http://www.uneca.org/
and http://www.un.org/Depts/eca/divis/fssd/index.htm
- The World Bank - Poverty in Africa: This
site provides links to the World Development Report 2000/2001:
Attacking Poverty, statistical datasets, demographic and household
surveys, definition and measurement of poverty. http://www4.worldbank.org/afr/poverty/
- The World Bank - Sub-Saharan Africa:
This site informs about the economic history of the sub-Saharan
African region, and analyzes the challenges for economic growth,
poverty reduction and improving welfare. http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/afr/afr.nsf
- Resources for Economists on the Internet,
http://rfe.wustl.edu/EconFAQ.html
- Paul Hensel's International Economic
Data Page, http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~phensel/intlecon.html
ENVIRONMENT,
WATER, and AGRICULTURE
- Food and Agricultural Oganization of
the United Nations (FAO), http://www.fao.org/,
provides worldwide information on agricultural issues.
- ALCOM is a regional community-based aquatic
resource management programme, executed by the FAO. http://www.fao.org/alcom/alcom.htm
- The International Food Policy Research
Institute's (IFPRI) mission is to identify and analyze policies
for sustainably meeting the food needs of the developing world.
http://www.ifpri.org/
- Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research's (CGIAR) mission is to contribute to food
security and poverty eradication in developing countries through
research, partnership, capacity building, and policy support.
http://www.cgiar.org/
- Land Tenure Centre at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, http://www.wisc.edu/ltc/
- Land Rights in Africa: information page
of Oxfam GB, which is a development, relief, and campaigning organization.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/landrights/
- Kalahari Conservation Society, http://www.udel.edu/IntlProg/africa/
- The Kalahari Peoples Fund, http://kalaharipeoples.org/
- Permanent Okavango River Basin Commission.
OKACOM is an initiative of the three Okavango River Basin states,
Angola, Botswana and Namibia. The Commission has the function
of advising the governments on the sustainable development of
the basin and of coordinating investigations and research activities.
http://www.namibianet.com/okacom/
- PEDA is an advocacy tool modeling the
interrelationships between population, environment, development
and agriculture in Africa, http://www.un.org/Depts/eca/divis/fssd/popin/Peda/frames.htm
- The United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP), Division for Environmental Information Assessment and
Early Warning - North America, Global Resource Information Database
links to available online data via NASA, USGS-EROS Data Center,
UNEP Geneva, and provides online reports on population and environment
issues. http://grid2.cr.usgs.gov/
- The UNEP/GRID - SIOUX FALLS makes gridded
(GIS) regional and global population distribution data available
free of charge. http://grid2.cr.usgs.gov/clearinghouse/datalist.html
- Secretariat For Eastern African Coastal
Area Management (SEACAM), http://www.seacam.mz/
- The World Resources Institute provides
information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental problems.
http://www.wri.org/wri/
- Environmental Information Systems in
Sub-Saharan Africa (EIS-SSA), http://www.grida.no/eis-ssa/index.htm
- Conserve Africa International (CAI) is
an independent non-profit international environmental organization
set up by a network of NGOs, public institutions and individuals
in Africa and in the North, who are involved in issues pertaining
to the sustainable development of Africa. http://www.conserveafrica.org/index.html
- International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
(IGBP), http://www.igbp.kva.se/
- The "IGBP Miombo Network"
was to build a regional network for global change research
on the dominant biome of Southern African Miombo Woodlands.
http://miombo.gecp.virginia.edu/index.html
- The research of the "IGBP Kalahari
Transect" focuses on the relationship between the structure
and function of the ecosystems spanned by the Kalahari transect
and on the climatic, atmospheric, and land-use drivers that
affect these relationships. http://kalahari.gecp.virginia.edu/
- International Human Dimension Programme
for Environmental Change (IHDP), http://www.uni-bonn.de/ihdp/
- Central African Regional Program for
the Environment (CARPE) is a long-term initiative by USAID
to address the issues of deforestation and biodiversity loss in
the Congo Basin forest zone, in the middle of the African continent.
http://carpe.umd.edu/
- The World Conservation Union (IUCN),
http://www.iucn.org/
- Global Environmental Change Program (GECP)
at the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia,
http://www.gecp.virginia.edu/index.html
- SAFARI 2000 is an international regional
science initiative to explore, study and address linkages between
land-atmosphere processes and the relationship of biogenic, pyrogenic
or anthropogenic emissions. http://safari.gecp.virginia.edu/index.asp
- Greenpeace International, http://www.greenpeace.org/index.shtml
- The World Water Council (WWC) is an international
water policy Think Tank that was founded in 1996, following recommendations
issued at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/
- The African Water Page, http://www.africanwater.org/entry.htm
- The Climate Prediction Center (CPC),
African Products Home, http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/african_desk/
- Namibia Meteorological Services, Weather
Watch, http://weather.iafrica.com.na/
GENERAL
COUNTRY INFORMATION
AFRICAN
LIBRARIES, JOURNALS
- University of Botswana Libraries, http://www.ub.bw/library/Libmain.HTM
- National Archives of Namibia, Windhoek,
includes online searching access to the library catalogs of the
National Archives and the University of Namibia Archives, plus
NAMCAT the Namibian union catalog. http://witbooi.natarch.mec.gov.na/
- University of Namibia, Special Collection
Section, http://www.unam.na/4320/special.htm
- National Library of Namibia - NAMLIT,
http://yaotto.natlib.mec.gov.na/
- Africa, Libraries and Archives, http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/libaf.html
- South Africa, Libraries and Archives,
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/rsalibs.html
- Africa, South of the Sahara, Journal
Index, http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/jourindex.html
- Bibliographieren Weltweit (bibliographies
worldwide), http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q5242118/pol/biblio.html
- Library Catalogs of Southern Africa,
at Columbia University, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa/SALibs.html
- University of Minnesota, Africa Human
Rights Resource Center, http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/
- Africa Web Links: an Annotated Resource
List, http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/WWW_Links.html
NEWS (in alphabetical order)
- News Africa, http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/world/af/
- ADF - African Development Forum, http://www.uneca.org/adf2000
- Africa Daily, http://www.africadaily.com/
- The African Women's Media Center, http://www.awmc.com/
- Afrique Tribune, http://www.pagel.com/afriquetribune/
- AFROL.com, http://www.afrol.com/ms_index.htm
- AISI -African Information Society Initiative,
http://www.bellanet.org/partners/aisi/
- KNF, African Knowledge Networks Forum,
http://www.unsia.org/aknf/
- APIC - Africa Police Information Centre,
http://www.africapolicy.org/
- Botswana Daily News, http://www.gov.bw/cgi-bin/news.cgi
- CNN Regional News Africa, http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/
- EcoNews Africa, http://www.web.net/~econews/
- Hans Zell Publishing Consultants, African
Newspapers & Media, http://www.hanszell.co.uk/nlink.htm
- Index on AFRICA - a comprehensive guide
to Africa on the Net, http://www.africaindex.africainfo.no/
- IRIN - Integrated Information Regional
Networks, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs,
http://www.reliefweb.int/IRIN/index.phtml
- Mmegi: The Reporter, http://www.mmegi.bw/
- MSNBC News, http://www.msnbc.com/news/aids2000_front.asp
- Namibia ECONOMIST, http://www.economist.com.na/
- The NAMIBIAN, the Namibian Newspaper,
http://www.namibian.com.na/HTML/Lead.html
- SIA - Special Initiative for Africa,
http://www.unsia.org/
- PANA - Panafrican News Agency, http://allafrica.com/
- TCA - Technology Center for Africa,
http://www.un.org/Depts/eca/tca/
- UNTPDC Africa Site, http://www.untpdc.org/incubator/africahp/main.htm
- West Africa News, http://www.westafricanews.com
- WOZA - South Africa's news Web site,
http://www.woza.co.za/
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