Comments by librarians at their planning meeting February 27-March 2, 2012, Kenyatta University, Nairobi

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Improving knowledge and skills in accessing health information in Africa

The Network of African Medical Librarians, whose mission is to expand the frontiers of knowledge through the training of, and outreach to African librarians, the academic community, health care professionals and policy makers, has produced a training manual entitled – Finding, organizing and using health information: a training manual for students, researchers and health workers in Africa. The manual was published in 2011 with support and funding from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.