Please be advised the following journal issues are now available online:

Vol. 21 No. 1-2: Nigerian Journal of Physiological Sciences

We are pleased to announce the addition of the East African Journal of Public Health to the Bioline International website.

The East African Journal of Public Health is a multi-disciplinary journal publishing scientific research work from a range of public health related disciplines including community medicine, epidemiology, nutrition, behavioural sciences, health promotion, health education, communicable and non-communicable disease. The journal also engages in, and responds to, current scientific and policy debates, including methodological issues in public health research.

Vol. 3, No. 1 is currently available at http://www.bioline.org.br/lp
New issues and back files will be added as soon as they are available.

This journal is also included in AJOL - African Journals OnLine

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
Union For African Population Studies (UAPS)
FIFTH AFRICAN POPULATION CONFERENCE
Arusha, Tanzania: December 10-14, 2007

Conference Theme: The emerging issues on Population and Development in Africa.

Africa in the 21st Century faces many population and development opportunities and challenges. Many countries have taken advantage of global and local opportunities to effect economic reforms that have raised incomes and reduced poverty; and there have been improvements in human development including rising school enrolment rates, lower childhood mortality, and declining fertility. Gains have also been noted against epidemiological burdens including HIV and AIDS. HIV incidence and prevalence rates are beginning to drop in many countries and there are some success stories of decline in childhood mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases. However, this progress in population and human development is not even across the continent or within nations. Huge disparities exist between and within nations, between women and men, between rural and urban residents, and between the poorest and the wealthiest in the continent. As nations make assessment of their progress to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is clear that without amplified investments in human development and without addressing equity issues, the goals to eradicate extreme poverty through improved, health, education, and environmental sustainability will not be realized.

Sub-Saharan Africa’s population is still growing rapidly, and is expected to reach 1.7 billion in the next forty-five years primarily as a result of current and past high fertility. Early marriage, high desired family size, gender disparity in socioeconomic status, low contraceptive use, and unequal access to information and services are some of the major reasons for sustained high fertility in Africa. This high population growth is occurring in a context of high levels of poverty, poor education, low economic growth, environmental degradation, and food insecurity. Yet, empirical knowledge of the potential role of population dynamics on poverty eradication is very limited, especially in the context of the MDGs.

Although there are opportunities for economic growth and access to information and technology globally, Africa has not benefited fully from the globalization process. Further, the agricultural sector, which is the backbone of many African economies, is largely underdeveloped and under-capitalized. Due to declining economic opportunities in rural areas, many young adults migrate from rural to urban areas in search of better livelihood opportunities. The resulting rapid urbanization, which is happening in a context of poor economic growth, planning and governance, has resulted in a fast-growing population of the urban poor living in large slum settlements that lack basic amenities. As the urban poor population grows— and estimates suggest that more than half of the continent’s population will live in urban areas by 2030— the health and social consequences of urban poverty will spill over to the rest of the continent and beyond.

High mortality especially of children and mothers has been a characteristic of the African continent for decades. While the continent saw almost universal decline in child mortality rates between the 1970s and early 1990s, there is now evidence of reversal of this trend especially in countries that have been worst hit by HIV and AIDS and where health systems remain inadequate. Endemic diseases such as malaria and re-emergence of tuberculosis have compounded the challenges of halting the spread of HIV and mitigating the impact of AIDS. More than 20 million Africans are living with the HIV virus and only a small fraction of these are able to access antiretroviral therapies (ART). Even where access to ART has improved, hunger and widespread poverty continue to make HIV and AIDS the biggest challenge to Africa to date. Sub-Saharan Africa also continues to face new threats from non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, and diabetes.

The Fifth African Population Conference will bring together multidisciplinary scientists, policymakers, practitioners, and partners to discuss these and other population and development challenges facing the continent. Participants will engage in scientific and policy discourse to help Africa engage meaningfully in its population development agenda. The success of the conference will be measured by not only the quality of scientific papers and how many people attended, but even more importantly by how much progress the continent will have made in addressing poverty, population, and health issues in the next decade as a result of presentations and networks forged at the conference.

Click here to see the Final Conference Brochure

For more details, please refer to the Conferences Page ARUSHA 2007

Instructions for Authors and Deadlines

Call for Abstracts

Click on this link to connect to the programme website

List of Main Sessions and Session Organisers

We are pleased to announce the addition of a new journal to the Bioline International website.

The journal Ciência Florestal was first published in 1991 with primary purpose of communicating research findings at applied and technical level related to the forest sector, of the fllowing units, located at the center of rural science of the Federal University of Santa Maria: Forest Research Center - CEPEF, Graduate Program Forest Engineering - PPGEF, Department of Forest Sciences - DCFL

Vol. 17, No. 1 of Ciência Florestal is now available.
Back files and new issues will be added as soon as possible.

The journal is also available from the publisher's website - http://www.ufsm.br/cienciaflorestal

We invite you to check out this new journal and send us any feedback you may have - bioline.international@utoronto.ca .

We are very pleased to announce the addition of a new journal to our website.

The Iranian Journal of Reproductive Medicine is published quarterly by the Research and Clinical Center for Cnfertility, Shahid sadoughi University of Medical Sciences of Yazd. Yazd Research & clinical centre for Infertility has been established as the first IVF centre in Iran in Oct 1988. The center was designed to provide the necessary services for expanding knowledge and treating infertile patients who have to travel into the European country. All issues are available on an open access (freely accessible) basis. Volume 5, No. 1 (2007) is online now, and more issues will be added in the near future. We encourage you to look at this journal, and send us your feedback.