Welcome to K4Health’s resource page, where you will find links to our databases and gateways, as well as other relevant sources of information.
Provided below is a list of our online resources and publications related to family planning, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS. However, this is just the beginning! We invite all our partners and colleagues to submit additional databases, publications, and other resources for consideration.
Please send your suggestions to the appropriate email listed below or send a general query to the resource team at resources@k4health.org.
Databases:
POPLine: Provides electronic access to more than 367,000 records created over the past 35 years that describe the world’s population, family planning, and reproductive health literature. The database contains evidence-based knowledge for researchers, scholars, teachers, and students, as well as valuable knowledge acquired from the field that enable health policy makers, program managers, and service providers to improve the quality and outcome of their work (popline@k4health.org).
Photoshare: A leading editorial photography collection showcasing international health programs in action and the people they serve. Developed exclusively for nonprofit educational use, Photoshare’s 17,000 images are available upon request and free-of-charge (photoshare@k4health.org).
HIVLine: (coming soon) Based on the successful POPLine model, HIVLine will consist of some 40,000 records covering HIV/AIDS topics in low- and middle-income countries. It will include information about HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, including integration with family planning services (hivline@k4health.org).
One Source: Combines the resources of five unique databases. You can search all of them combined, each one separately, or a combination that best meets your needs. One Source users can quickly search for reports, articles, documents, posters and pamphlets, photos, Web sites, and Q&As through a single interface.
Gateways:
Reproductive Health Gateway: Allows you to search a collection of 140 carefully selected Web sites to find relevant, reliable information for health professionals. Sites include United Nations, World Bank, World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, CARE, and the Global Health Council to name a few (rhgateway@k4health.org).
HIV/AIDS Gateway: K4Health also allows you to search 250 sites with a click of the button to find quality information on HIV/AIDS (hivgateway@k4health.org).
Publications:
Population Reports: Previously published three times annually by K4Health’s predecessor Information & Knowledge for Optimal Health (INFO) Project of The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs (CCP). The reports provide accurate and authoritative overviews of important developments in family planning and related health topics. Download or browse 47 recent issues—some with links to Power Point presentations, Q & A’s, Quizzes, as well as Technical Briefs and INFO Reports.
Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers: Published by INFO Project, the book offers clinic-based health care professionals in international public health settings the latest guidance on providing contraceptive methods. It includes evidence-based guidance developed through worldwide collaboration and is one of the World Health Organization's Family Planning Cornerstones.
Other Resources:
Do You Know Your Family Planning Choices?: This wall chart replaces the old wall chart by the same name and will continue to serve as a tool to comply with a requirement of the Tiahrt Amendment. The new wall chart contains method specific information from Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers that providers can display for their clients.
Dr. Jim Shelton's Pearls: The "Pearls" offer answers to commonly asked questions about family planning. Check out the "Pearl" of the Week for Questions & Answers. These "Pearls" are prepared by Dr. James D. Shelton, Senior Medical Scientist, Office of Population and Reproductive Health, United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Have a question for a future "Pearl"? Send your proposed question to Dr. Shelton. Your question may be chosen as a future "Pearl of the Week."
End Violence Against Women: This site was developed by K4Health’s predecessor INFO Project to collect and share information on the latest research, tools, project reports, and communication materials produced in the worldwide struggle to end violence against women.
HIPNET: A partnership that addresses a key public health need for access to technical health information and innovative information technologies that strengthen the performance and sustainability of health care programs, organizations, and services worldwide. HIPNET facilitates collaboration among organizations that produce and disseminate print and electronic information in the field of international health.
HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health Integration: This resource is designed to help integrate provisions of sexual and reproductive health services with activities for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS. Included are selected documents and other materials which reflect the experiences and the latest thinking of the health community on integration of HIV and sexual and reproductive health services.
Interagency Youth Working Group (IYWG): The IYWG provides global technical leadership to advance the reproductive health and HIV/AIDS outcomes of young people ages 10-24 in international public health settings. Click on the link to view more information about the IYWG, partner organizations, meetings, and publications.
Integrating Multiple Gender Strategies to Improve HIV and AIDS Interventions: USAID AIDSTAR-One project created this compendium of selected HIV programs in sub-Saharan Africa that integrated multiple gender strategies.
Key Reminders About Hormonal Family Planning Methods: This wall chart provides those important but hard-to-remember details for providing hormonal methods. The Key Reminders sheet covers five methods—combined oral contraceptives, monthly (combined) injectables, long-acting (progestin-only) injectables, implants, and progestin-only pills. Topics include: When to start, comparing effectiveness, medical eligibility, correcting mistakes, and managing common side effects.
Managing Knowledge to Improve Reproductive Health Programs: This resource covers how managers of reproductive health programs can use knowledge management tools to systematically increase the creativity and empowerment of an organization’s staff members and the efficiency and effectiveness of its operations.
MAQWeb: The purpose of MAQWeb is to identify and implement practical, cost-effective, and evidence-based interventions aimed at improving both the access to and quality of family planning and reproductive health services.
Medical Eligibility Criteria Wheel for Contraceptive Use: This wheel contains the medical eligibility criteria for starting use of contraceptive methods. It is based on the Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 3rd edition and its 2008 Update. This update of the MEC Wheel contains 25 new recommendations that tell family planning providers whether a woman presenting with a known medical or physical condition is able to use various contraceptive methods safely and effectively. Notable changes include no restrictions on the use of any method for women diagnosed with mild cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis or who are carriers of viral hepatitis. In addition, the updated wheel includes new guidance on drug interactions.
Post Abortion Care: This site provides comprehensive, standardized, and evidence-based information on post abortion care. It serves as a repository of basic resources for policymakers and program planners who are designing or revising their current post abortion care program.
USAID Health Care Improvement Portal: This site offers extensive resources on quality improvement methods and approaches for improving health service delivery systems. Program implementers are invited to share their health care improvement experiences with others worldwide through the portal's Improvement Database, which seeks to facilitate the sharing of tools and information to support improvement activities in maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, services for orphans and vulnerable children, human resources for health, and patient safety. Registered users can access all portal features, including submitting reports on their improvement work, suggesting resources for the site, and posting comments to improvement reports in the database.
