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The health Library of the WHO Regional Office for Africa collects, organizes and disseminates medical and health-related literature to respond to the information requests of the Regional office and field staff, other United Nations institutions and international organizations, as well as researchers from Member States of the WHO African Region

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In order to give access to health information published in or related to Africa and to encourage local publishing, the World Health Organization ( WHO ), in collaboration with the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA), has produced an international index to African health literature and information sources

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Hinari Programme set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables low- and middle- income countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature

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