This page is intended to provide you with some further information which may be of help in your decisions about working in the developing world. If you have any articles or links that you think may be helpful then please contact us.

The resources that are available in the links section are grouped as follows; websites first, books second, articles third. Articles are, again, grouped dependent upon those generic to health in the Developing World, papers relevant to missionary work and humanitarian relief, education, specific conditions and travel to specific areas in the Developing World.

 

Third World Health: Hostage to First World Wealth. Theodore MacDonald. Radcliffe Publishing. 2005. ISBN-13: 9781857757699 This book about the omplex socio-economic relations betwen the developed and developing world was reviewed in the MPS Casebook from February 2006. It is a very useful generic resource and is highly recommended. » read more

Global Health Partnerships. Nigel Crisp. DH Feb 2007. A useful primer for current UK government policy about healthcare in the developing world. This is a very large file so Download direct from DFID site.

Health in the Middle East. BMJ 206; 333: whole issue. This issue of the BMJ has a large number of articles relating to political and social issues in the Middle East and should be an essential read for anyone wanting to spend some time in this region. >>read more

The management of benign prostatic hypertrophy. A voice from the third world. Deen Sharma. BJUI 2006; 97: 671 - 2. Deen Sharma, an active member of UROLINK from Guyana, has written this article on the management of BPH in the developing world. We are grateful to Deen for his co-operation with the provision of this article. » read more

KeyMed Ltd, and their head of Surgical Business Peter Hawkins, have been kind enough to allow us to place the latest KeyMed instruction course on endoscope mantenance on the UROLINK website. We are extremely grateful to KeyMed, with whom UROLINK has a very long and strong relationship, for their help in making this information available to the international community.

Section 1 - Introduction. This is the introduction to the 11th Endoscopic Training Course for Nurses and Technicians in the Care and Maintenance of Rigid and Flexible Endoscopic Instrumentation, October 2005. » read more

Section 2 - Endoscope design-The inside Story. A comprehensive manual about the differences in different types of endoscopes, their design, and constraints. An essential primer about urological endoscopy. » read more

Section 3 - How to get the best out of your equipment. Cleaning and preventative maintenance. The essential guide about cleaning all rigid and flexible endoscopes and how to stop them 'falling over'. » read more

Section 4 - Service, servicing and repair. This is KeyMed's guide to servicing. There is not a huge amount of information about how to service equipment in the filed in this section. » read more

Section 5 - Electrickery. A guide to the use of electrosurgery. Again an esential manual of the uses of electrosurgical equipment but with little information about its maintenance. » read more

Section 6 - Educational materials and courses. This is KeyMed's guide to their available courses in 2005 and other similar courses which may be of interest. » read more

Section 7 - Infection control in endoscopy. A guide to the available literature about this subject in October 2005. » read more

 

UROLINK is extremely grateful to the executive of the British Journal of Urology International, and to Peter Bellchamber in particular, for its help in making the following articles from the 'Urology in developing parts of the world' supplement to the BJUI, published in March 2002, available to interested parties. The BJUI has given permission for direct access to this issue, the index to which can be viewed from the read more button, and the articles from which can be accessed below.

 

UROLINK: a model for working together in a changing world. Neville Harrison. BJU International Volume 89 Issue s1 Page 1 - 5  - March 2002
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UROLINK in sub-Saharan Africa. Christine Evans. BJU International Volume 89 Issue s1 Page 6 - 10  - March 2002

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UROLINK – benefits for trainees from both sides. S Gujral and R Nassanga. BJU International Volume 89 Issue s1 Page 11 - 12  - March 2002
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Twinning: The future for sustainable collaboration. R MacDonagh, M Jiddawi and V Parry. BJU International Volume 89 Issue s1 Page 13  - March 2002
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Urology in Eastern Europe in the 1990s. L. Managadze, Z. Chanturaia. BJU International
Volume 89 Issue s1 Page 18  - March 2002. » read more

Bilharziasis of the genitourinary tract.  M.A. Ghoneim. BJU International Volume 89 Issue s1 Page 22  - March 2002
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Reconstructive urology in the tropical and developing world: a personal perspective. J.H. Naudé. BJU International Volume 89 Issue s1 Page 31  - March 2002
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The role of the urologist in the treatment and elimination of lymphatic filariasis worldwide.  Catherine DeVries. BJU International Volume 89 Issue s1 Page 37  - March 2002
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Clinical nephrological problems important to the urologist. J. Plange-Rhule, F.B. Micah, J.B. Eastwood, A. Payvand. BJU International Volume 89 Issue s1 Page 44 - 49 - March 2002
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Providing an obstetric fistula service.  E.C. Hamlin, M. Muleta, RC. Kennedy.  BJU International Volume 89 Issue s1 Page 50 - 53  - March 2002
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Free bladder mucosal autograft in the treatment of complicated vesicovaginal fistula. F. Sharifi-Aghdas, N. Ghaderian, A. Payvand. BJU International Volume 89 Issue s1 Page 54  - March 2002
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Retrospective review and long-term follow-up of radical cystectomy in a developing country. K. Gaitonde, A. Goyal, S. Nagaonkar, N. Patil, D.R. Singh, V. Srinivas. BJU International Volume 89 Issue s1 Page 57  - March 2002
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The management of stone disease. S.A.H. Rizvi, S.A.A. Naqvi, Z. Hussain, A. Hashmi, M. Hussain, M.N. Zafar, H. Mehdi et al. BJU International Volume 89 Issue s1 Page 62  - March 2002
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