The Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA)
is a professional association founded in 1984 with now 46 country members
and many partners and collaborators worldwide.

AHILA aims to:

Improve the provision of up-to-date and relevant information to health and medical workers in Africa.

Encourage the professional development of librarianship.

Promote the development of resource-sharing and exchange of experiences and information among African health information professionals.

Promote the development, standardisation, and exchange of national databases of medical and health literature produced in the African countries in the form of an African Index Medicus.

AHILA 11 Congress in Mozambique, October 2008
AHILA 10 Congress in Kenya, October 2006
AHILA 9 Congress in Malawi, October 2004