Policy Links
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Home Page 
The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research provides practical health care information,
research findings, and data to help consumers, health providers, health insurers,
researchers, and policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues.
http://www.ahcpr.gov/
Amnesty International: South Africa
Amnesty International is a leading world-wide human rights organization based on
voluntary membership. The depth and reliability of its research and global reach have made
it the most respected source of information on human rights abuses and advances in the
world. Amnesty International works to promote all the human Rights enshrined in the United
Nations Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards.
http://www.amnesty.org.za/
Centre for Health Policy
The Centre for Health Policy (CHP) does independent, multi-disciplinary health policy
research and development. It is located within the Department of Community Health of the
University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. CHP is committed to the
improvement of health and health care in South Africa, within the framework of equity and
social justice, and, in the process, to learn from and contribute to international
experience.
http://www.healthlink.org.za/chp
Child and Youth Health Policy
The Health of Young Australians asserts that good health does not happen automatically. It
recognises that the health of the young is profoundly affected by the social, economic and
physical environments in which they live.
http://www.health.gov.au/hfs/pubhlth/strateg/youth/index.htm
Child Rights Information Network
(CRIN)
CRIN strives to improve the lives of children by:
promoting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; exchanging information about child
rights; developing networking tools and capacity building for information exchange among
CRIN members.
http://www.crin.org/
Children's Health Links
The Harvard Center for Children's Health is dedicated to improving the health, development
and well-being of all children from infancy through adolescence.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/children/links.htm
CHILD HIV/AIDS SERVICES: A
directory of organisations in SA
In December 2000, the Child Health Policy Institute, of the University of Cape Town, was commissioned by Save the Children (UK) to establish a National
directory of services for children and youth infected / affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
http://www.childaidsservices.org/
Childwatch International Research
Network
The Childwatch International Research Network is a nonprofit, nongovernmental
network for institutions and individuals involved in research for children. It aims to
initiate and coordinate research and information projects on children's living conditions
and the implementation of children's rights.
http://childhouse.uio.no/childwatch/
Constitutional Law Archive
This site is hosted by Wits Law School, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
and has links to the latest decisions of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
http://www.law.wits.ac.za/archive.html
Equity: Network for Equity in
Health in Southern Africa
Equinet, the Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, seeks to
develop and widen the conceptual understanding of equity in health and identify critical
areas of work and policy issues in relation to equity in health...
http://www.equinet.org.zw/
Government of National Unity Index
Comprehensive source of government documents, bills, white papers, acts etc
http://www.polity.org.za/gnuindex.html
Health Systems Trust
The Health Systems Trust is an independent non-government organisation established in
1992. It is committed to a health care system which meets the needs of all South Africans.
It seeks to help realise this vision through support for research and skills development,
aimed at improving policy and planning at all levels.
http://www.hst.org.za
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation KFF
An independent health care philanthropy whose work is focused on health policy,
reproductive health, HIV policy and health & development in South Africa. The web site
includes information about the foundation and its mission, information on state medicaid
programs in the USA, and an on-line library of links to information on media, HIV/AIDS,
health policy, reproductive health and South Africa.
http://www.kff.org/
Maternal & Child Health Policy
Research Center
The Maternal and Child Health Policy Research Center specializes in health care issues
affecting children with special health care needs and those from low-income families.
http://www.mchpolicy.org/
Parliament web site
The most comprehensive place to find information about legislation in South Africa.
http://www.parliament.gov.za
Parliamentary Monitoring Group
The Parliamentary Monitoring Group was established in 1995 as a partnership
between Black Sash, Human Rights Committee and Idasa with the aim of monitoring the South
African Parliamentary Committee meetings. For the past three years the information has
been used by the three organisations to lobby the Parliament of South Africa on pieces of
legislation and matters of democratic processes.
http://www.pmg.org.za/
South African Government Web site
Includes some details on health, and also access to acts, bills of parliament and
documents.
http://www.gov.za
South African Law Comission
South African Law Comission site is hosted by Wits Law School contains the latest
documents such as annual reports, bulletins, discussion papers, issue papers, media
releases, project lists etc.
http://www.law.wits.ac.za/salc/salc.html
Strategic Health Review
Monitors issues in health care in Southern Africa, with discussion fora and news.
http://www.masa.co.za/shr/ |
