[afro-nets] SATELLIFE and AFRO-NETS

[Holly Ladd <hladd@healthnet.org>]

Subject: SATELLIFE and AFRO-NETS
 
 
SATELLIFE and AFRO-NETS
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Dear AFRO-NETS subscribers,
 
AFRO-NETS is an on-line community that relies on three critical 
components ­ you the readers and thought contributors, the mod-
erators who volunteer their time, and SATELLIFE. SATELLIFE makes 
our conversations on important health topics possible. Our 
voices reach each other in all corners of the world because 
SATELLIFE hosts the discussions, provides the technical support, 
trains moderators, and troubleshoots the networks. Without 
SATELLIFE to coordinate all these crucial behind-the-scenes ac-
tivities, AFRO-NETS would simply not exist.
 
SATELLIFE is small, but it accomplishes a lot. SATELLIFE, a non-
profit organization, publishes HealthNet News, HNN-AIDS, HNN-
Community Health and HNN-Nursing, bringing over 20,000 readers 
in the developing countries free access to the most relevant in-
formation from the most respected peer reviewed medical and pub-
lic health journals. In addition to AFRO-NETS, SATELLIFE hosts 
eleven other free discussion forums on health-related topics. 
Together SATELLIFE?s publications and discussion groups reach an 
estimated 130,000 people in 159 of countries every day.
 
The news, information, ideas, and communication we depend on 
from SATELLIFE?s discussion groups and publications are provided 
for free, but that does not mean these services do not cost 
money! They do, and SATELLIFE depends on financial donations to 
make them possible and to provide them at no cost. Right now, 
SATELLIFE needs our help.
 
SATELLIFE?s commitment to providing us with this forum for the 
open exchange of information and ideas, unfettered by commercial 
interference or censorship, is unwavering ­ but the expenses are 
unrelenting. Each of us must now ask ourselves not only
 
?How much is AFRO-NETS worth to me?? but also,
 
?How much is it worth to me that AFRO-NETS is available to all 
of my colleagues around the world at no cost??
 
If you believe, as I do, that the answer to these questions is 
?it?s worth a great deal? please join with me in giving as much 
as you can afford to keep AFRO-NETS and SATELLIFE alive.
 
Wouldn?t it be ironic if, at a time when public health and medi-
cal challenges such as HIV/AIDS, Malaria and even Avian Flu re-
quire careful filtering of the flood of information, vetting the 
useful from useless, AFRO-NETS and SATELLIFE were no longer here 
to fulfil their mission of putting relevant, reliable, unbiased 
information into our hands?
 
Your help will make the difference. Here is how you can help:
 
* Speak to your employer -- or others who are in the position to 
also make a donation -- today. Tell them how much AFRO-NETS 
means to you and your colleagues and ask them to help by donat-
ing to SATELLIFE.
 
* And, if you are able, please also make a personal financial 
contribution today!
 
* Let us know how this discussion group makes difference ­ your 
stories help us explain why this is important to support!
 
Working together, we can meet this challenge ­ thank you for 
your help!
 
 
Please send checks or money orders to:
SATELLIFE
30 California Street
Watertown, MA 02742-2539, USA
 
For direct bank transfers:
Recipient name: SATELLIFE 
Account number: 1107474377
ABA Number: 211070175
Account currency: US dollars
Bank: Citizen's Bank, Newton Corner, 300 Washington Street, New-
ton, MA 02458, USA
 
Thank You!
 
For more information or to learn how to donate to SATELLIFE by 
credit card, please send your email message to:
mailto:donate@healthnet.org
 
Thank You!
 
Holly Ladd
Executive Director
SATELLIFE
Global Health Information Network
30 California Street
Watertown, MA 02472 USA
Tel. +1-617-926-9400
Fax: +1-617-926-1212
mailto:hladd@healthnet.org
http://www.healthnet.org