New NGO status for HON
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Health On the Net was granted on the 23rd July 2002 the NGO status
by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
Health on the Net Interim Director Célia Boyer announced
today that HON has been granted consultative status to the Economic and
Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).
The new NGO status will facilitate HON participation with the World Health
Organization and other UN bodies, and reinforce its consultative role
with government ministries in several countries where HON has contacts.
HON was established in 1995 under the
impetus of M. Guy-Olivier Segond, former Geneva State Councillor. The
organization was then directed between 1998 and 2001 by the late Pr JR
Scherrer.
Pioneering the field of health information ethics, HON was first to introduce
a code of conduct for medical and health web sites (HONcode). The HONcode
has since been adopted by over 3000 web sites worldwide. HON presents
its research at international academic gatherings and collaborates on
several European Union projects. Although best known for the HONcode,
Health On the Net has also developed online applications for patients
and caregivers, including HONselect search engine, an encyclopedic resource
of medical and health information containing over 70,000 references.
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