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Oxfam-Lebanon translated the issue of Hesperian's newsletter Women's Health Exchange on violence against women, into Arabic because, as they said, there are no materials on violence against women available in Arabic. Oxfam used the newsletter in health training sessions for village women in Aarsal, Lebanon; in gender training for literacy trainers in the rural area of Akkar; for gender training for local NGOs in Algeria, and for a region-wide training for gender trainers. In all, Oxfam distributed 1000 copies of the newsletter to NGOs working with women throughout the Middle East-Maghreb region.

Arab Resource Collective (ARC)

The general aim of the ARC is to cooperate with community-based organizations, working throughout the Arab world, in identifying their needs and challenges and in developing their human resources. ARC has carried out significant work regionally as an active member of PHM to provide the needed resources, necessary contacts and accessible fora to raise issues of Health for All and Primary Health Care in the Arab countries. In this respect, ARC is concentrating its efforts on pursuing the production of basic resources through collective adaptation, and on providing a good level of consultative processes through networking for its partners.

ARC has finalized a number of basic resources including the Arabic version of five primary health care resources published by The Hesperian Foundation namely, Where there is no doctor, Where women have no doctor , Where there is no dentist, Disabled village children, and HIV, health and your community, in addition to a training manual for female health workers based on local experience in five Arab countries, named Enhancing the capacities of female health workers in the arab communities and a number of other resources in the field of Essential Drugs and Rational Use of Drugs. These health resources are backed up by a number of other resources in the fields of children's rights, early childhood education and development, and the "child-to-child" approach.

During the past few years, the ARC's Arabic version of Where there is no doctor has been the most widely used primary health care resource by health workers and the public in several Arab countries. The book has recently been updated and reprinted.

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