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Information on diseases, disorders, healthy living, and other health topics for all ages and populations, including older adults and seniors.

Harborview Medical Center's ethnic medicine website containing medical and cultural information about immigrant and refugee groups.

The Global Health Council (GHC), a U.S. non-profit organization linking NGOs from across the world, is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world. -- from the GHC website
http://www.globalhealth.org/

An organization that seeks to mobilize civil society around an alternative World Health Report. Organized by health care advocates and practitioners dissatisfied with the WHO report.
http://www.ghwatch.org/

The NIH is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its focus is on biomedical and health research. "NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce the burdens of illness and disability." -- from the NIH website

"Our mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care" -- from the PIH website
http://pih.org/home2.html

A section of the American Anthropological Association.
An active research community of graduate students, practicing anthropologists, scholars and scholar activists who address issues of local, national and international importance.
http://www.medanthro.net/

Developed by faculty of the Department of Family and Social Medicine of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with 100+ links to websites, documents and presentations devoted to social medicine.
http://www.ghwatch.org/

From offices based in Geneva, UNAIDS works worldwide to help coordinate global and national response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
http://www.unaids.org/en/default.asp

"WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system." -- from the WHO website.
http://www.who.int/en/