The Research4Life partners have announced two winners in the 'Access to Scientific Research Literature' global case study competition on how HINARI, AGORA, and/or OARE have impacted both work and communities. Dr. Arun Neopane, a pediatrician from Nepal and Mulugeta Bayisa, a physiotherapist from Ethiopia, were chosen as joint winners from over 60 entries to the competition held in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the launch of HINARI and the Research4Life programme.
The competition drew entries from more than 30 countries, and represented the broad range of institutions which have access to the HINARI, AGORA and/or OARE programmes. Multimedia and print entries came from researchers, librarians and health professionals who shared their insights on how Research4Life can benefit eligible institutions in developing countries.
Joint winner Dr. Arun Neopane of Nepal offered readers the opportunity to experience not only how Research4Life has benefited his work as a paediatrician, but also how it has supported him in his role as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nepal Paediatric Society and General Secretary of Nepal Association of Medical Editors (NAME).
Joint winner Mulugeta Bayisa is a physiotherapist based at the University of Gondar, College of Medicine and Health Sciences in Ethiopia. Using HINARI, he co-developed an innovative therapeutic exercise programme for adults living with HIV and AIDS to improve the health related quality of life, which is now being implemented by the University Hospital. Additionally, Bayisa has used this access to the scientific literature to develop evidence-based physiotherapy management guidelines for children with obstetric brachial plexus palsy, and to develop a programme of effective spinal manipulative therapy for acute low back pain in adults.
Research4Life is the collective name for three public-private partnerships which seek to help achieve the UN's Millennium Development Goals by providing the developing world with access to critical scientific research. Since 2002, the three programmes - HINARI, AGORA and OARE - have given researchers at more than 5,000 institutions in 105 developing world countries free or low cost access to over 7,000 journals provided by the world's leading science publishers.
Research4Life is a public-private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, Cornell and Yale Universities and the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers. Together with technology partner Microsoft, the partnership's goal is to help attain six of the UN's eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015, reducing the scientific knowledge gap between industrialised countries and the developing world.
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