Organisation managing partnerships between health care institutions in the United States and their counterparts in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. “The AIHA partnership program is a coordinated effort by the US health care provider community and US academic institutions to work with counterparts abroad to address common health care issues and concerns. There are 42 AIHA partnerships operating in nine countries of Central and Eastern Europe and eleven republics of the former Soviet Union.”
WWW site includes: directory of partnerships including links to partners web sites, indexed by partner type, region and subject area focus; Country Health Information – general health links listed by country
Online publications: Connections, monthly newsletter; CommonHealth, aimed at keeps health care practitioners and Health Ministry officials.
Health Resources Bulletins, available via email through NISMEDINFO mailing list with back issues held on WWW site.
AIHA Multilingual Document Library: Directory of documents translated into the languages of the NIS and CEE, with instructions for ordering copies. Some documents are available online.