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From: Royall, Julia (NIH/NLM) [E]
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 6:04 PM
To: ‘cwendo@newvision.co.ug’
Cc: Plumer, Andrew (NIH/NLM) [E]; Frant, Loren (NIH/NLM) [E]; ‘Christopher Conte’; Royall, Julia (NIH/NLM) [E]; Kitendaugh, Paula (NIH/NLM) [E]; ‘Emilio Ovuga’; ‘hama_salt@yahoo.com’; ‘ro.wang741@gmail.com’; ‘ojara sande’
Subject: MedlinePlus Tutorial on DEPRESSION for collaboration with New Vision

Dear Charles,

We are ready to begin our formal collaboration with NEW VISION/Rupiny on the tutorial for teens on depression. I have attached the tutorial’s text to this message.

As we discussed last year, the next step is for NEW VISION/Rupiny to run the text in the paper as a contest for illustrations for each of the 20 slides. The text was developed by Dr. Emilio Ovuga, dean of Gulu Medical School in collaboration with a team of medical students and the MedlinePlus team at NLM.

Please send me a schedule for the publication and contest as soon as possible. I have copied Daniel Hama, NLM project manager in Uganda, as well as Ronnie Ojwang, a young artist from the North in Uganda who can be helpful with coordination of the artwork. I also thought that Chris Conte might be helpful in alerting the Ugandan Health Communication Alliance, so that they can write stories on the project.

For the reference of all of us, I’ve also included the document we created in May 2008 which lays out the steps we believed would bring the project to a fruitful conclusion.

I look forward to hearing from you or your designee soon, so that we can move the project to the next phase.

All best wishes,
Julia

DEPRESSON_TUTORIALDraft3_agp_comments[2].doc
Mental Health in Northern Uganda 5-8-08.docx

Photo of the Gulu Team for the Mental Health Tutorial

Objectives of the Mental Health Campaign

SO: Health Information & Libraries Journal
VL: 25
NO: 3
PG: 175-185
YR: 2008
CP: © 2008 The authors. Journal compilation © 2008 Health Libraries Group
ON: 1471-1842
PN: 1471-1834

AD: Reference and Information Services Librarian, E. Latunde Odeku Medical Library, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria and ; University Librarian Emeritus, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00758.x
US: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00758.x

AB: Background:††Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are important tools for development. Despite its significant growth on a global scale, Internet access is limited in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Few studies have explored Internet access, use of electronic resources and ICT training among health information professionals in Africa.Objective:† The study assessed Internet access, use of electronic resources and ICT training among health information professionals in SSA.Methods:† A 26-item self-administered questionnaire in English and French was used for data collection. The questionnaire was completed by health information professionals from five Listservs and delegates at the 10th biannual Congress of the Association of Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA).Results:† A total of 121 respondents participated in the study and, of those, 68% lived in their countries’ capital. The majority (85.1%) had Internet access at work and 40.8% used cybercafes as alternative access points. Slightly less than two-thirds (61.2%) first learned to use ICT through self-teaching, whilst 70.2% had not received any formal training in the previous year. Eighty-eight per cent of respondents required further ICT training.Conclusions and recommendations:† In SSA, freely available digital information resources are underutilized by health information professionals. ICT training is recommended to optimize use of digital resources. To harness these resources, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations must play a key role.

This page provides access to a series of maps produced by the Malaria Atlas Project. Each thumbnail map below links to a high-resolution .pdf file showing one of four outputs of the recent global malaria mapping exercise detailed in Hay et al., 2009.

From: Royall, Julia (NIH/NLM) [E]
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 5:51 PM
To: ‘Emilio Ovuga’; ‘ojara sande’
Cc: Royall, Julia (NIH/NLM) [E]; Plumer, Andrew (NIH/NLM) [E]; Frant, Loren (NIH/NLM) [E]
Subject: Comments from NLM team on mental health tutorial

Dear Emilio and Sande,

Thank you for the mental health tutorial draft. We were all impressed with what you have done! Today, the NLM team met to discuss, and Andrew Plumer wrote the comments below.

Please let us know what you think of the comments. We look forward to receiving the next draft.

Many thanks,
Julia

NLM Review of Proposed Depression Tutorial

From: ojara sande [mailto:chongojsande@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:31 PM
To: Royall, Julia (NIH/NLM) [E]
Subject: Re: Comments from NLM team on mental health tutorial

NOTED.

Thanks so much,we will go over it again.

writting is a process.

We wishes for you all a happy Easter.

Greetings from my son,Kica Noel Lurem.See attachment,he took it at Bujjagalli falls what the gov’t of Uganda want to destroy,….few ones like Noel may have a chance to see such beauty.

Sande.

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