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Websites:

Access to health (Novo Nordisk)

AIDS & Africa: Comprehensive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS in Africa

Airspace Action on Smoking & Health (British Columbia, Canada)

Amnesty International documents on Medical Issues (Amnesty International)

• {···español: Informes: Profesionales de la salud}

• {···français: Documents sur le secteur médical} 

Amnesty International Health Professionals Network Online

APOSHO: Asia-Pacific Occupational Safety and Health Organization

Asian Business Coalition on AIDS

Asian Workers Institute for Occupational Health, Safety and Environment (OHSE Institute)

• Training - Our Training Materials: The Asian Workers for Occupational Health, Safety and Environment Institute has now completed its first three-module Trainer training in Occupational Health, Safety and Environment program (Asian Workers Institute for Occupational Health, Safety and Environment)

Aventis: Partnerships for Health -...Aventis teamed up with WHO and other groups to ensure that the products needed to tackle such epidemics reach those in need. Partnerships include the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, and the recently formed partnership to tackle African Sleeping Sickness. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

Bioethics and Human Rights Links (University of Minnesota Human Rights Library)

Cancer and the Environment (Physicians for Social Responsibility)

Center for Bioethics (University of Pennsylvania)

Center for Health and the Global Environment (Harvard Medical School)

Centre for Corporate Accountability: Promoting worker and public safety (UK)

Children's Environmental Health Network

Code of Practice on Safety and Health in the Non-ferrous Metals Industries (International Labour Organization, 2001)

Communities for a Better Environment: Environmental Health and Justice for California's Urban Communities

Consumer Project on Technology

• Health Care and Intellectual Property (Consumer Project on Technology)

Database of Legislative Texts on Occupational Safety and Health [more than 3500 (as of 2001) laws, regulations and international legal instruments dealing with OSH matters in approximately 140 countries and international organizations, plus references to the ILO's OSH-related conventions] (International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre, International Labour Organization)

Death in Small Doses: What EJF is doing to combat harmful pesticide use in Cambodia (Environmental Justice Foundation)

Environment and Health (Centre for Science and Environment [CSE], India)

Environment & Health (Physicians for Social Responsibility)

Environmental Pollutants & Reproductive Health (Physicians for Social Responsibility)

Environmental Working Group: Cutting-edge research on Health and the Environment

European Centre for Occupational Health, Safety and the Environment (University of Glasgow)

Five Examples of Economic and Social Rights (Center for Economic and Social Rights)

Framework Convention Alliance: an international alliance of NGOs committed to seeing a strong and effective Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (Harvard School of Public Health)

Gender and Health (Eldis: the gateway to development information, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)

Genetic Engineering (Greenpeace)

GAIN: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

Global Alliance for Leprosy Elimination (Novartis, World Health Organization)

Global Forum for Health Research

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria: Private Sector -...The creation of such a public-private partnership requires the full involvement of the private sector, both as a strategic partner in building strong alliances to fight these diseases, and as a source of expertise and experience. The Global Fund encourages the private sector to take a fully active role in fighting AIDS, TB and malaria

Global Health Council

A Global Roadmap for Modern Biotechnology: An issues-based navigational tool with policy options for decision-makers in the public and private sectors (International Chamber of Commerce)

Global Treatment Access Campaign: Campaign for Affordable AIDS Drugs and Essential Medicines

Hazards and Workers' Health International Newsletter

Health [India] (InfoChange [India])

Health (Third World Network)

Health Action International

Health and Human Rights: An International Journal (François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health)

Health and Human Rights Database (Boston University School of Public Health)

Health and Human Rights Links (University of Minnesota Human Rights Library)

The health hazards of environmental and occupational exposure [relating to high technology] - Lower income people of color live, work and play on the unhealthful front lines (Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition)

Health, Safety & Environment (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions)

• {···español: Salud y Seguridad y el Medio Ambiente}

• {···français: Santé et Sécurité et Environnement} 

HIV/AIDS: New policy to protect employees - No compulsory testing - Education and counselling programmes [regarding BP's new workplace policy on HIV/AIDS in South Africa]:...Both the policy and the programmes are underpinned by key ethical and moral principles: non-disclosure, confidentiality, tolerance and non-discrimination. (BP)

HIV/AIDS & Human Rights (U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights)

HIV/AIDS Pilot Project: To deliver patented therapies & other treatments to patients in developing countries (International Intellectual Property Institute)

Institute for OneWorld Health: The mission of the Institute for OneWorld Health is to develop new, essential and affordable medicines for neglected diseases (Institute for OneWorld Health)

Integrity in Science: The Integrity in Science project seeks to safeguard science and the public welfare from the corruptive effects of industry’s influence (Integrity in Science, a project of The Center for Science in the Public Interest)

• DATABASE: Scientists' and Non-Profits' Ties to Industry: The Center for Science in the Public Interest has launched this Internet site to provide information about the links between hundreds of scientists — mostly in the fields of nutrition, environment, toxicology, and medicine — and businesses. All too often, such ties result in conflicts of interest, especially when neither the scientists nor the corporations disclose them. (Integrity in Science, a project of The Center for Science in the Public Interest)

International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA)

International Program on Chemical Safety (World Health Organization, International Labour Organization and UN Environment Programme) 

Lufthansa-unbalanced.org: An independent website about the treatment of Lufthansa's catering and food processing employees in the United States [includes sections on "Sexual Assault & Harassment", "Worker Exploitation", "Health & Safety Violations", "Labor Disputes"] (HERE - Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees International Union and AFL-CIO)

• company website: Lufthansa

Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network

Médecins Sans Frontières

• Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines (Médecins Sans Frontières)

• DNDi, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative: A global initiative to develop drugs for those in need (Médecins Sans Frontières)

Mercury in Vehicles (Clean Car Campaign)

Mercury Work Group (MASCO - Medical Academic & Scientific Community Organization) 

Mercury-Free Dentists: A Campaign of RiverSides Stewardship Alliance (Canada)

Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE): Drinking Water (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)

Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals (NATT)

Novo Nordisk positions: Access to health in developing countries (Novo Nordisk)

OHSEI - OHSEI was established to improve working conditions for workers in Asia and to promote an environment-friendly and sustainable industry

Partners in Health (charity affiliated with the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change at Harvard Medical School)

Pesticides: Environmental and health effects (Pesticide Action Network North America)

Physicians for Human Rights - Israel

Physicians for Human Rights - UK

Physicians for Human Rights - USA

Physicians for Social Responsibility

• Environment and Health (Physicians for Social Responsibility)

Poverty and Health (World Bank)

Prescription Access Litigation [a coalition of private lawyers, public health advocates and public interest attorneys seeking judicial enforcement of U.S. state and federal laws in order to remedy past overcharges for prescription drugs to consumers, and to make affordable pharmaceuticals more accessible in the future]

{···español} Red Fronteriza de Salud y Ambiente, A.C. (Mexico)

Reducing Mercury - Binational Toxics Strategy (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency & Environment Canada)

Regional Air Pollution in Developing Countries (Stockholm Environment Institute)

• Impacts on Health - Regional Air Pollution in Developing Countries (Stockholm Environment Institute)
• Regional Air Pollution in Asia (Stockholm Environment Institute)
• Regional Air Pollution in Africa (Stockholm Environment Institute)
• Contaminación Atmosferica Regional en los Paises en Desarrollo [Regional Air Pollution in Latin America] (Stockholm Environment Institute)

Reports: Science from the Developing World (International Development Research Centre)

SafeWork: Codes of Practice - ILO Codes of Practice contain practical recommendations intended for all those with a responsibility for occupational safety and health in both the public and private sectors. (International Labour Organization, InFocus Programme on Safety and Health at Work and the Environment)

• {···español} SafeWork: Repertorios de recomendaciones prácticas (Organización Internacional del Trabajo)

• {···français} SafeWork: Recueils de directives pratiques (Organisation Internationale du Travail)

• {···español} Centro internacional de información sobre seguridad y salud en el trabajo (CIS) (Organización Internacional del Trabajo)

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition

• Global Semiconductor Health Hazards Exposed!

• The Health Hazards of Environmental and Occupational Exposure

Stop Tuberculosis: The Stop TB Initiative - A Partnership for Global Action hosted by WHO

Supercourse: Health and Environment in Sustainable Development (Dr Hiko Tamashiro, Office of Global and Integrated Environmental Health, World Health Organization)

Tobacco Scam: How Big Tobacco uses and abuses the restaurant industry (a project of Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco)

Toxic Chemicals & Health (Natural Resources Defense Council)

Workplace disasters: Latest news reports on industrial disasters (Hazards)

Workplace Safety - asbestos campaign (Australian Workers Union)

World Health Organization (WHO) / Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS)   

• Health: A Key to Prosperity: Success Stories in Developing Countries (World Health Organization)

• Health as a Human Right (World Health Organization)

• {···français: La sante en tant que droit de l'homme} 

• Health for all: Origins and Mandate (World Health Organization)

• {···français: Sante pour tous: Origines et mandat} 

• Tobacco:

• An introduction to the WHO inquiry on tobacco industry influence (World Health Organization) {summary available in···français···arabic···chinese···russian} 

• Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (World Health Organization)

• Tobacco: Health impact (World Health Organization)

World Medical Association