Geographical Locations - Belarus

• (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 250
• CIA World Factbook : Belarus

Organisations and Networks

UN and Multinational

• WHO
  - WHO Country Profile - Belarus
  - WHO - Tobacco control: country profile - Belarus
  - WHO - Environmental Burden of Disease: Country Profile – Belarus
• WHO Regional Office for Europe (EURO) in Copenhagen (Denmark)

Government

• Ministry of Agriculture and Food
• Ministry of Health
• Ministry of Labor
• Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection
• Ministry of Statistics and Analysis

Non-Government

• Belarus-American Child Health Foundation - "to undertake and financially support activities designed to improve and enhance the health of children in Eastern and Central Europe, with a special concern for the children from Belarus"

Academic Institutions

• Grodno State Medical University
• Belarussian State Medical University (formerly Minsk State Medical Institute)

National Policy and Related Documents

Reports, Guidelines, and Projects

• Chernobyl Catastrophe Consequences on Human Health
  This Greenpeace Report "...challenges the UN International Atomic Energy Agency Chernobyl Forum report, which predicted 4,000 additional deaths attributable to the accident as a gross simplification of the real breadth of human suffering. The new data, based on Belarus national cancer statistics, predicts approximately 270,000 cancers and 93,000 fatal cancer cases caused by Chernobyl. The report also concludes that on the basis of demographic data, during the last 15 years, 60,000 people have additionally died in Russia because of the Chernobyl accident, and estimates of the total death toll for the Ukraine and Belarus could reach another 140,000."
• Epidemiological Fact Sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Belarus
  This 2006 update provides figures on the prevalence and distribution of HIV/AIDS and STIs in Belarus.
• Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident and Special Health Care Programmes
  Some 5,000 people who were children and adolescents at the time of the world’s worst-ever civil nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine, have so far been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and there may be up to 9,000 excess cancer deaths, according to this United Nations study examining the health impact of the disaster.
• Summary country profile for HIV/AIDS treatment scale-up
  This 2005 document itemises Demographic and socioeconomic data, HIV indicators, Situation analysis, Resource requirements and funds committed for scaling up treatment and prevention in 2004–2005, Treatment and prevention coverage, Implementation partners involved in scaling up treatment and prevention, and Staffing input for scaling up HIV treatment and prevention.

Educational Resources

• CDC - Travel Information : Eastern Europe and the NIS
• Library of Congress, Country Study: Belarus