KCteam

Health & Development Networks (HDN) Key Correspondents (KCs) are citizen journalists writing about health and development issues, particularly about HIV/AIDS and TB. KCs come from around the globe. HDN in Chiang Mai, Thailand, facilitates the team with the aim of developing and supporting their reporting skills, while KCs write about issues at the grassroots level. Learn more...

www.HealthDev.net, or HealthDev.net for short, a new, innovative and interactive social news network designed by Baba’s Projects and maintained by Health & Development Networks (HDN) and its partners, is now officially open to the public.

This website brings you up-to-the minute information and news on all health related matters with a strong focus on HIV/AIDS and TB.

In efforts to provide a timely and interactive social news network that promotes sharing stories, giving community members a voice, and providing users with unique opportunities to speak to each other and to an international audience, HDN is proud to welcome everyone to HealthDev.net!

Some of the many benefits of this new system include:

• You identify key topics and interesting content. Interesting news 'floats' to the top of the frontpage due to the content-driven interface. Strong user interaction means that you decide what articles are interesting.
• Highly customizable – stay up to date on very specific subjects without having to navigate through unrelated information.
• Instant visibility to the international community on the website from the moment you upload articles or links.
• Greater access to the Key Correspondent Team and the world – connect with other HealthDev.net users, send email messages through the system, comment and vote on articles. Make new friends and colleagues and reconnect with old ones
• Get a greater understanding of what people around the world care about. Comments, votes, and editing on user-uploaded articles provide valuable dialogue and input into the fields of health and development.
• Join a new social network. Inform the world of your work and the information that means the most to you. Put up a profile, photographs, and add personal interests and details to profile pages to tell others who you are and what inspires you.
• Join local, regional, and global groups to find others who are writing about key developments and information coming from the field. Learn about and track trends and key topics in health and development.
• Find out more about issues that matter. Interested in reading more about stigma? TB and its effects in India? A simple search function provides all material in which you are specifically interested. Information is found easily and quickly
• Customized searches via RSS feeds provide users with the most current information on HIV, AIDS and TB, along with many other topics of interest.

On behalf of Health & Development Networks (HDN) we are excited to welcome everyone to our exciting new web-based tool, HealthDev.net.

For more information or details, please click here.

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