Topical Pages
AIDS
Child and Maternal Health
Population and Demography
Sexual and Reproductive Health
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Tuberculosis

See also the Children and Orphanages section of our Human Rights page.

General Public Health Links:

Public Health Research Institute (Russian TB Control Program)
http://www.russia.phri.org/

The Russian Public Health Association
http://www.glasnet.ru/~hefrus/homerus.htm

PopNet Russia - Health Links
http://www.popnet.org/MAPS/russia.htm#Health

Russian Academy of Sciences
http://www.ras.ru/

Immunology and Reproduction Center
http://hp.pccenter.ru/cir/default.htm

Open Society (search for projects)
http://www.soros.org/

Forced Migration Projects (Soros)
http://www.soros.org/fmp2/index.html

Eurasianet
http://www.eurasianet.org/

INTAS
http://www.intas.be/mainfs.htm

INTAS Project: "Russian Physicians: their attitudes and strategies for adaptation to change"
http://www.intas.be/calls/project_det.asp?call_id=973&project=1456

International Planned Parenthood Federation
http://www.ippf.org/regions/countries/rus/index.htm

Moscow Health Committee
http://www.komzdrav.ru/

National Hematology Research Centre
http://www.blood.ru/English/default.htm

http://www.ldb.org/vl/geo/europe/4rus.htm

Child, Health, Development, Creativity
http://www.openweb.ru/kolpino/eng.htm

Medecins sans Frontieres
http://www.msf.org/projects/europe/russia/

Useful links
http://views.vcu.edu/views/fap/medsoc/medsoc.htm

Russian Foundation for Basic Research
http://www.rfbr.ru/

Library of Congress: Russia - A Country Study
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/rutoc.html

Moscow State University School of Medicine
http://www.fbm.msu.ru/index-r.html

Green Cross International
http://www.gci.ch/

Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health (Russia public health links)
http://www.sph.emory.edu/PHIL/country.html#russia

The International Rescue Committee
http://www.intrescom.org/

World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/home/info.html

WHO Europe Humanitarian Assistance Projects
http://www.who.dk/Ch/Cor/welcome.htm
http://par.who.dk/ (broken link)

Recent articles relating to Russia:

Research & Development: Health as a Bridge for Peace in the North Caucasus
http://www.who.int/eha/trares/hbp/NCaucasus/index.htm

Consultation on applied health research priorities in complex emergencies
http://www.who.int/eha/trares/research/250398.htm

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Russian Federation (update)
http://www.who.int/disease-outbreak-news/n1999/july/n26july.html

Tobacco Epidemic in the Russian Federation
http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact157.html

Accidental exposure to smallpox vaccine in the Russian Federation
http://www.who.int/disease-outbreak-news/n2000/june/20june2000.html

Unknown illness in the Russian Federation
http://www.who.int/disease-outbreak-news/n1999/july/n22july.html

UNICEF

Patterns in conflict: Civilians are now the target
http://www.unicef.org/graca/patterns.htm

EBRD Activities in Russia
http://www.ebrd.com/english/opera/COUNTRY/Russfact.htm
http://www.ebrd.com/english/index.htm  (general index)

The IMF's index of Russia-related articles:
http://www.imf.org/external/country/rus/index.htm

The World Bank's Europe and Central Asia Site
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/eca/eca.nsf

Russia: Country Background
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/CIDAWEB/webcountry.nsf/VLUDocEn/Russia-CountryBackground
Canadian Assistance to Russia
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/CIDAWEB/webcountry.nsf/VLUDocEn/Russia-Canadianassistance

United Nations Foundation

Children's Health
http://www.unfoundation.org/issues/children/children.cfm
Women and Population
http://www.unfoundation.org/issues/women/women.cfm

Health Committee of the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on Economic & Technological Cooperation
http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/russia/

Initiative for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia
http://www.isar.org/isar/Russia.html

Rand  (a wealth of information!)
http://www.rand.org/
http://www.rand.org/search.html

Family, Fertility, and Demographic Dynamics in Russia: Analysis and Forecast, by Anatoly G. Vishnevsky
http://www.rand.org/publications/CF/CF124/CF124.chap1.html

Fertility Decline and Recent Changes in Russia: On the Threshold of the Second Demographic Transition, by Sergei V. Zakharov and Elena I. Ivanova
http://www.rand.org/publications/CF/CF124/CF124.chap2.html

Family Planning and Induced Abortion in Post-Soviet Russia of the Early 1990s: Unmet Needs in Information Supply, by Andrej A. Popov
http://www.rand.org/publications/CF/CF124/CF124.chap3.html

The Russian Epidemiological Crisis as Mirrored by Mortality Trends, by Vladimir M. Shkolnikov and France Meslé
http://www.rand.org/publications/CF/CF124/cf124.chap4.html

Russia's Demographic "Crisis": How Real Is It?, by Julie DaVanzo and David Adamson (1997)
http://www.rand.org/publications/IP/IP162/index.html

For current public health information, try searching in the publications listed here.

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