The Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA)
is a professional association founded in 1984 with now 46 country members
and many partners and collaborators worldwide.

AHILA aims to:

Improve the provision of up-to-date and relevant information to health and medical workers in Africa.

Encourage the professional development of librarianship.

Promote the development of resource-sharing and exchange of experiences and information among African health information professionals.

Promote the development, standardisation, and exchange of national databases of medical and health literature produced in the African countries in the form of an African Index Medicus.

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AHILA 9th in MALAWI
25 - 29 October 2004
Sand 'n' Sun Conference Centre, Mangochi District on the shores of Lake Malawi

Theme of the congress:
'Health Information and Rural Based Communities'

Sub Themes:

  1. Health Information for survival
  2. Harnessing ICT for Rural Information Delivery
  3. Health information for common important medical problems such as nutrition, malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS etc in the rural communities
  4. Rural health information systems
  5. Health information and traditional / cultural practices
  6. Training of Rural Health Information Personnel

The Committee also decided to organize pre-conference workshops as follows:

Venue: Blantyre
Dates: Friday 22 October - Saturday 23 October 2004

Topics:

  1. Library Gateways and Subject based Information Gateways
  2. Accessing Electronic Journals
  3. Proposal writing; fundraising and project implementation
  4. Research methods
  5. Principles of information retrieval and effective searching
  6. Licensing and copyright issues mainly those associated with internet usage

Main Organising
Committee:

R Masanjika
Chairman
College of Medicine

JK Banda
Vice Chairman
Malawi College for Health Sciences

W Bomba
Treasurer
WHO Malawi, Lilongwe

GB Shaba
Secretary
Kamuzu College of Nursing

Dr AWC Msiska
Members
Chair publications

Subcommittee:

Mrs M Ngwira
Chair
Programme Subcommittee

Mr A Mang'umbi
Chair
Entertainment Subcommittee

R Masanjika
Chair
Accommodation Subcommittee

Mrs G Kadzamira
Chair
Protocol Subcommittee

Thom Bello
Chair
ICT Subcommittee

R MASANJIKA
PRESIDENT OF AHILA MALAWI &
CHAIRMAN OF THE LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Email: rmasanjika@medcol.mw
or rmasanjika@yahoo.com