The World Health Organization (WHO) has joined with a number of public and private partners to improve access to high-quality scientific information for research centers in Africa, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
"Valuable research is carried out in developing countries and emerging economies, but researchers are hampered by not being able to share essential scientific information," WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland, MD, PhD, said last month in a statement.
"If researchers and scientists can read the same journals, search the same databases, join in discussion groups, [and] compete for the same grants as their colleagues from wealthier countries, it will strengthen their own research, bring them into the international community of researchers, and eventually improve dissemination of their own results," she added.
As part of the United Nations' Health InterNetwork, the program is aimed at improving global health by using Internet technologies to spur the worldwide flow of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
