Our Mission: Providing information and communication resources that benefit disadvantaged people around the world April 2004 Highlights: During the month of March WiRED installed in Iraq's medical schools and teaching hospitals six new Medical Information Centers. This brings to 10 the number of facilities now serving some 5,500 Iraqi physicians and medical students. WiRED is one of the few organizations supplying Iraq's health care community with access to the latest medical information. We start by installing computer networks, then providing an infusion of information though extensive, CD-based, medical e-libraries. Then, as the Internet slowly becomes available throughout the country, we provide on-line access to professional medical Websites. WiRED arranges for free access to proprietary Sites and extensive collections of on-line biomedical journals. For a health care system so long isolated from the outside world, these resources offer the opportunity to rapidly advance the study and the practice of medicine. We will return in early June to complete our goal to outfit every medical school and key teaching hospital in Iraq. By mid-summer, we expect to have installed more than 35 Medical Information Centers throughout the country. With these in place, the vast majority of Iraq's medical community will have access to current medical information.       Please visit our website at www.wiredinternational.org for details about WiRED's Community Health Information Centers and stories about people who have benefited from this work. WiRED works in cooperation with the Marian Wright Edelman Institute at San Francisco State University. << To unsubscribe to this mailing list, please send an email to unsubscribe@wiredinternational.org >> Copyright, WiRED International April 2004