Healthcare Information For All - HIFA

03/08/2026

🤱🌍 World Breastfeeding Week | 1st–7th August 2026

Breastfeeding gives every child the best start in life by providing the nutrition and protection they need to grow healthy and strong. Let's support, encourage, and empower every breastfeeding mother.

💙 Healthy mothers. Healthy babies. Healthier communities.

29/07/2026

🌍 World Hepatitis Day 2026
Hepatitis can be silent for years; but early testing, vaccination, and treatment save lives. Let's raise awareness, know our status, and protect our families from hepatitis.

Together, we can end hepatitis. 💙

29/07/2026

Thank you to all who participated in our first Spotlight!
hifa.org/gbs
A dynamic, interactive, global discussion
Our first Spotlight involved HIFA and CHIFA members from Ethiopia, Gambia, Japan, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, and USA! Join us (free) for future Spotlights! hifa.org/joinhifa (general health) hifa.org/joinchifa (child health)

Nominate a topic for our next Spotlight:
hifa.org/spotlights
Group B Strep International

18/07/2026

Health literacy is central to preventing and controlling NCDs. It supports people, communities, and organizations in addressing NCDs and their determinants, taking meaningful action to reduce risk factors, and support health and wellbeing for all.

13/07/2026

Antibiotics don’t treat colds or flu.

These illnesses are usually caused by viruses and are mostly self-limiting, whereas antibiotics only work on bacteria.

✅ Let’s handle antibiotics with care and keep these life-saving medicines effective.

09/07/2026

Kelli and Kevin Smith are sponsoring the first HIFA Spotlight, on Group B Strep, in memory of their daughter, Finley Genevieve Smith.
Their deeply personal story reminds us why improving awareness of Group B Strep matters.

What do you see as the biggest barrier to improving awareness of Group B Strep?

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The HIFA Spotlight series brings together global voices to raise awareness, stimulate discussion and share knowledge on priority health issues

06/07/2026

🌍 Be part of the global conversation that shapes healthcare knowledge!

Every week, HIFA Spotlights brings together thousands of health professionals, researchers, policymakers, librarians, patient advocates, and other stakeholders from over 180 countries to discuss one important health topic.

💡 Sponsor a Spotlight. Amplify your impact. Help shape the future of healthcare information.
🎥 Watch the video and join the movement!

26/06/2026

25/06/2026

How can we meet information needs and thereby prevent stillbirths and infant harm due to Group B Strep?

Join CHIFA today! hifa.org/joinchifa

3,600 child health professionals, publishers, librarians, researchers, policymakers, patient advocates in 140 countries.

For more about this Spotlight: hifa.org/gbs
We are grateful to Kelli and Kevin Smith who have kindly sponsored this Spotlight in honour of their daughter Finley Genevieve
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facilitated by HIFA partner Group B Strep International.
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With thanks to

25/06/2026

How can we meet information needs and thereby prevent stillbirths and infant harm due to Group B Strep?

Join CHIFA today! hifa.org/joinchifa

3,600 child health professionals, publishers, librarians, researchers, policymakers, patient advocates in 140 countries.
hifa.org/gbs