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International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) / HIV/AIDS Page

United Nations -- Data on the health indicators related to the Millennium Development Goals is available at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_goals.asp .

World Bank -- The World Bank provides health data in time series on its subscription data base  World Development Indicators (WDI) data base. You can get the data for the latest year for a single country from links on http://www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/databytopic.html .

World Health Organization -- WHO provides a searchable database on communicable diseases (Cholera, HIV/AIDS/STIs, Malaria, Rabies and Tuberculosis) at http://www.who.int/GlobalAtlas/DataQuery/home.asp . The search results can be downloaded into Excel.

World Resources Institute -- The WRI provides online data in EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal". WRI provides a searchable time-series database with coverage of more than 500 indicators for 220 countries. Topics include Water Resources and Freshwater Ecosystems; Climate and Atmosphere; Population, Health and Human Well-being; Economics, Business and the Environment; Energy and Resources; Biodiversity and Protected Areas; Agriculture and Food; and Forests and Drylands.  The searchable database permits searching for a single indicator but over a full range of countries and years. The result can be downloaded into csv format. The system also provides data tables and country profiles in pdf format, maps and feature stories. The database is available at http://earthtrends.wri.org/ . The data is also available in a CDROM for $US 125 . Information on the CDROM is available at http://www.wristore.com/woredacd20.html

International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) -- The INCB provides data on the production and use of narcotic drugs for medical purposes. Links to their reports are available at http://www.incb.org/e/tr/menu.htm .

HIV/AIDS
Because the of intense interest in HIV/AIDS, databases specific to HIV/AIDS are grouped in a separate section. To access this section click here. A selection of articles describing the HIV/AIDS infection is available here .