TropIKA.net
Tropical Diseases Research to Foster Innovation and Knowledge Application
The Primary goals of
TropIKA.net are to:
- Present up-to-date content in a context that makes sense for health researchers and policy makers
- Improve access to scientific information on infectious diseases of poverty
- Facilitate broad-based participation of disease-endemic countries in discussions and the formulation of current and emerging research priorities and agenda setting
- Provide health researchers and decision makers with a comprehensive resource about best practices and authoritative summaries of research findings that have implications for their efforts to meet the challenges of infectious disease control.
- Be used as an interactive knowledge platform for infectious diseases of poverty at health forums
Partners participating in the TropIKA.net initiative to date:
- TDR (UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases)
- BIREME/PAHO/WHO, in Brazil: hosts and manages the portal
- HINARI: provides access to full text journals in specific countries
- The Global Heath Library (GHL) and the Virtual Health Library (VHL)
- Public Library of Science Neglected Tropical Diseases (and PLoS in general) for sharing "open access" scientific content and technology
- SciELO journals and other open access journals