Dear HIFA Colleagues, dear Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, adding "local flavour" to our online library MEDBOX is a complex challenge. MEDBOX does not only contain documents from international organizations but also relevant national resources, e.g. from the Ministry of Health, national NGOs, local partners. As long as the documents are in an international language (e.g. English, French, Spanish, etc.), we can proof and qualitatively review them. For documents in local languages we have to rely on local partners, e.g. we have included documents in Hindi and Indian vernacular languages because our partner CHAI Catholic Health Association of India supported us here and provided them to us.
We welcome any suggestion to include further documents that have a "local flavour". Organizations are welcome to send us documents and the MEDBOX team will be glad to add them into MEDBOX after review and quality proof.
Organizations are also welcome to become partners of MEDBOX and support us with important documents and expertise.
Please share your comments and suggestions with me.
Best regards, Piet and Sieglinde
HIFA profile: Sieglinde Mauder is Librarian at the Medical Mission Institute, Würzburg, Germany. She collects and distributes resources on HIV/AIDS, tropical diseases, humanitarian aid, health service management, e-learning for partners in developing countries. sieglinde.mauder AT medmissio.de
