• Australian Government Health Advisories
• General Medical Information For Travellers
• Medical Clinics In Various Countries
• Particular Medical Conditions
• Travel Information For The Disabled
• General Information For Travellers
• Medical Reference Information

Australian Government Health Advisories

• Department Of Foreign Affairs: The travel information portal for Australians going overseas including consular travel advisories for many countries relating to political, social and medical issues that may impact on travellers to those countries.

• Australian Health Insurance Commission: Health care while travelling overseas - Australia’s Reciprocal Health Care Agreements.

• Taking Or Sending PBS Medicines Out Of Australia May Be Illegal: Unless the medicine is for your use, or the use of someone travelling with you, taking or sending medicine overseas that has been subsidised under the PBS is illegal.

General Medical Information For Travellers

• US Centre For Disease Control: This site has a comprehensive list of health information for travellers including briefing on country requirements and travel diseases.

• World Health Organisation: Reports and statistics on many aspects of World Health Organisation programmes relevant to intending travellers.

• Staying Alive Survival Services: First aid training for workers or travellers visiting remote areas.

Medical Clinics In Various Countries

• Nepal - CIWEC Centre Kathmandu: Western-quality medical care within Nepal for travelers and expatriates, CIWEC has developed an international reputation for its work in defining the health risks to travelers in Nepal. The CIWEC clinic website is also packed with health hints for trekkers in Nepal.

• Singapore - International Medical Clinic Singapore: Specialises in family and travel medicine for the international community. In recognition of this focus, the staff come from a diverse range of countries, encompassing North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

• Vietnam - The Family Medical Practice: Vietnam's oldest, largest and most popular private international health care deliverer. Their clinics in Hanoi, HCM City and Danang offer 24-hour medical services in general and specialist health care including medical evacuations, emergency inpatient facilities, travel medicine advice and vaccinations.

• UK - Trailfinders Travel Medicine Clinic: Excellent place to access top quality travel medicine advice. They stock all vaccines.

• Ireland - The Tropical Medical Bureau: Has centres throughout Ireland. Find your nearest centre - lots of general travellers health information as well.

• Worldwide - ISOS: Credentialed healthcare providers that will deliver high-quality care at affordable prices in many parts of the developing world.

• Worldwide - ISTM: International Society of Travel Medicine has a clinic directory for finding Travel clinics world wide.

• Worldwide - IAMAT: The International Association of Medical Assistance to Travellers has a book for travellers listing English speaking doctors in every corner of the globe. IAMAT is a non-profit organization established in 1960. You can join for a donation and it takes about 4 weeks for the book to arrive.

Particular Medical Conditions

• Fearless Flyers: If you are afraid to fly, you are not alone. This non-profit site presents information on courses to help you overcome a fear of flying.

• Pill Time Calculator: Not sure what time to take your contraceptive pill while overseas and in a different time zone? Check with our pill time calculator.

• Jiggers: Tungiasis (or Jiggers) is caused by the flea Tunga penetrans and although there has been an overall reduction of its occurrence within the last decades, it is still highly prevalent where people live in extreme poverty, occurring in many Latin American and African countries.

• Yellow Fever Online: Important information about Yellow Fever vaccines and vaccinations, Yellow Fever distibution, and vaccine side effects.

• Altitude Sickness

• Guidelines on climbing Mt Kiliminjaro: Kilimanjaro is said to account for about half of the worlds serious cases of mountain sickness, by virtue of its accessibility and the large numbers of groups attempting it with short itineraries. Due to this, The Royal Geographical Society a few years ago produced guidelines on climbing Kili.

• Find emergency contraception around the world

• Tuberculosis: Information about the disease - symptoms, treatment and prevention.

• Culture Shock: Article on how to cope with it University of Wisconsin student services

• Special Reports: Dr Deb Mills reports on Travel Medicine Issues - vaccine preventable disease, travelling with medical issues, general hazards of travel.

Travel Information For The Disabled

• Access-Able Travel Source: Information and everything else you need to know about travel with disabilities, mature travel, disability magazines, access guides, wheelchair travel, scooter rental, accessible transportation and more!

General Information For Travellers

• Staying Alive: Survival instruction, specialist training courses and consultancy services provided to individuals, corporations and government departments in Australia.

• International Porter Protection Group: IPPG's aim is to improve health and safety for the trekking porter at work in the mountains and reduce the incidence of avoidable illness injury and death. This is done by raising awareness of the issue among trekking and travel companies, leaders, sirdars, and trekkers.

• Responsible Travel: Responsible-Travel.org is an independent online resource committed to providing unbiased, clear information to all travellers who are concerned by the impact their activities may be having.

• Lonely Planet Online: Solid current travel information from the people that made the Lonely Planet guide books such a success.

• CIA World Factbook: Excellent summary of facts and figures for every country including population, ethnic groups, life expectancy, recent history, and disturbances.

• Getaway OnLine: The web site for the popular Channel 9 travel program Getaway.

• Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory: The TOWD is your guide to official tourism information, an index listing only official government tourism offices, convention and visitors bureaus, and similar agencies. No travel agents, no tour operators, no hotels.

• Yahoo! Travel: Destination information, net events, links, chat and message boards.

• Rec.Travel Library: Brian Lucas's award winning site that covers all aspects of everywhere for anyone wanting to do anything. That's not an overstatement since this site provides extremely comprehensive coverage of a wide range of issues that confront the traveller, as well as links to many travel information sites.

• Yellow Guide: Hints and tips for first time traveller - starting with how to pack

• Travel to Tibet - should I go?

• Safe Travel: Travel safety tips and advice for travellers.

• Find the sanitation rating of your cruise ship

• Divers Alert Network: DAN helps divers in need with medical emergency assistance and promotes diving safety through research, education, products and services.

Medical Reference Information

• Travel Medicine Homepage: The most useful site for doctors wishing to find links to travel medicine sites on the net is Dr Rick Speare's site. It contains links to travel medicine sites along with information about what each site contains and how best to use it.

• VICNET: Australian Health: An extensive collection of links to health resources in Australia. VICNET is a unit of the State Library of Victoria and one of the largest web sites in Australia.

• MedSite: Medsite is a medical information resource search engine, and categorizes, reviews and rates medical web sites. Their goal is to make medical information on the internet easily accessible to all, and they appear to have succeeded.

• The Vaccine Page: Useful and up-to-date information about vaccines and immunology presented in an easy to use format.

• Journal Of Travel Medicine : Official publication of the International Society of Travel Medicine and the Asia Pacific Travel Health Association.

• The Web Doctor: The Internet Navigator for Primary Care Physicians. WebDoctor™ is an Internet navigation tool which is designed to guide the practicing physician to on-line medical information.

• Medical College Of Wisconsin: A national leader in health care delivery through patient care, education,research and innovation. This web site has a very comprehensive list of links to web sites covering general internal medicine.

• Communicable Diseases Australia: Online version of CDI published by the National Centre for Disease Control Canberra.

• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygeine: A peer-reviewed journal published monthly.

• Manual of Travel Medicine: Fantastic reference book for medical practitioners on the subject of travel medicine.

• Travel health information sheets in many different languages