• Email lists

Health newsletters and discussion lists

HealthNet is SatelLife's computer-based telecommunications system which links health care workers around the world. Provides access to latest medical information, e-mail connectivity, electronic conferencing. Its current technical focus is on email delivered services, facilitated through system of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, simple ground stations, and radio- and telephone-based computer networks.

WWW site includes information on services, profiles of country-support persons, information on (people) networks, and archives of its discussion lists.

Discussion lists (see separate entries for full details) are:

(a) ProMED-mail: Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases

(b) ProCAARE: HIV/AIDS

(c) E-Drug: essential drugs

(d) ProCOR: emerging cardiovascular diseases in developing countries

(e) AFRO-NETS: networking among African health workers