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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2007
Ishmael Bea, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story: At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence.
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Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival
Jen Marlowe, with Aisha Bain and Adam Shapiro
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2006
In November 2004, three independent filmmakers traveled to eastern Chad and crept across the border into Darfur. Improvising as they went, they spoke with dozens of Darfurians, learning about their history, hopes, and fears, and the resilience and tragedy of their everyday lives.
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
Abraham Verghese
Vintage
1995
Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City saw its first AIDS patient in August 1985. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases who became, by necessity, the local AIDS expert. Out of his experience comes a startling, ultimately uplifting portrait of the American heartland. |
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A History of Public Health
George Rosen
The Johns Hopkins University Press
1993
An enjoyable text covering the evolution of public health in ancient Greece and Rome, Europe and the United States. The account profiles individuals who influenced the field in a readable, educational manner. |
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Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines
Jeremy MacClancy
University of Chicago Press
2002
In a series of essays, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contributions that anthropology can make to contemporary society in their discussions of a wide range of issues, such as forced migration, child labor, the drug industry, and international aid organizations. |
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HIV, Health and Your Community - A Guide for Action
Reuben Granich, M.D., M.P.H. and Jonathan Mermin M.D., M.P.H.
Online - click here
2006
Designed for confronting HIV in places with few medical resources, this comprehensive manual is accessible to people without technical knowledge or prior training in HIV prevention or in the care of people with HIV/AIDS.
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34 Million Friends
Jane Roberts
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2005
A grassroots movement asking 34 million Americans to support the United Nations Population Fund with one dollar is the subject of this book.
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Finding Work in Global Health
Garth Osborn & Patrician Ohmans
click here
2005
A practical guide for job-seekers or anyone who wants to make the world a healthier place with preface by Nils Daulaire, MD, MPH, President & CEO of the Global Health Council.
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Millions Saved: Successes in Global Health
Ruth Levine et al.
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2004
This unusual book from the Center for Global Development presents 17 proven successes in global health that have saved many millions of lives - and dollars. |
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Sexuality in the Time of AIDS: Contemporary Perspectives from Communities in India
Ravi K. Verma, Pertti J. Pelto, Stephen L. Schensul, Archana Joshi
SAGE India
2004
An overview of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India and the response of both the government and the public. |
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The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time
Greg Behrman
Free Press
2004
Behrman takes the reader behind the scenes to explore the mystery of the U.S. government's tragic failure to respond to the AIDS epidemic, and he puts out an urgent call for immediate action. |
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AIDS in the World: A Global Report
Jonathan Mann, Daniel Tarantola & Thomas Netter
Harvard University Press
1992
An examination of AIDS from a global perspective, written by many experts in their respective fields. |
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All My Friends Are Dead
William Kirtley and Megan Peimer
As a volunteer in the Peace Corps in the Ivory Coast, the author writes about the impact of AIDS on two African families; in rural and urban settings. |
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Another Day in Paradise
Carol Bergman
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From the world's most troubled corners, international humanitarian workers tell their stories of courage and compassion. |
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
Laurie Garrett
Hyperion
2000
A look into the reality and difficulty of providing healthcare systems all over the world. |
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Black Death: AIDS in Africa
Susan Hunter
Palgrave Macmillan
2003
Hunter uses her 20 years of experience working on AIDS in
Africa to explore how the West's history exploiting developing nations is
directly responsible for the spread of Africa's AIDS pandemic.
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A Broken Landscape: HIV & AIDS in Africa
Paula Carballeira, Gideon Mendel, Reverend Gideon Byamugisha and Noerine Kaleeba
Blume
2003
Photographs of people affected by AIDS in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and South Africa. |
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Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis
Emma Guest
Pluto Press
2001
A look at the children orphaned by AIDS in a place where over one third of the adult population is infected. |
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Laurie Garrett
Penguin Books
1994
Traces the history of new infectious diseases and how they will play a role in global health issues to come. |
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Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
Paul Farmer
University of California Press
1999
Shows how infectious diseases, for which there are vaccines, still cause suffering among the poor and vulnerable. |
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May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India
Elisabeth Bumiller
The Random House Publishing Group
1990
Based on her stay in India, Bumiller discusses the lives of many different women, from villagers to movie stars. |
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder
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The Random House Publishing Group
2003
This powerful and inspiring book tells the true story of a gifted man, Paul Farmer, who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. |
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Pedro and Me
Judd Winick
Henry Holt & Company
2000
The story of the life and death of young AIDS activist and victim Pedro Zamora as told by his roommate from MTV's The Real World San Francisco. |
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Ryan White: My Own Story
Ryan White and Ann Marie Cunningham
Signet
1992
A story about a courageous young boy living in Indiana with AIDS, his struggle to live a "normal" life and legal battle to remain in school. |
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We Miss You All
Noerine Kaleeba
Women and AIDS Support Network
1992
The author's story about her husband's death from AIDS, coping with the discrimination and how she established the AIDS Support Organization (TASO.) |
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The Bride Price
Buchi Emecheta, George Braziller
2002
A glimpse into a male-dominating culture where, in reference to the title, a man must pay "the bride price" before marrying her to ward off death during childbirth. Told from the perspective of a young African woman, her new husband and her disapproving uncle. |
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Possessing the Secret of Joy
Alice Walker
Pocket Books
1993
This book tackles slavery, domestic violence and sexual abuse, some of the issues surrounding African women. |
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The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
Picador
1998
Tells the life of Dinah, an only daughter in 1700 B.C.E. a member of a nomadic tribe in modern day Iraq, and her time in the "red tent" a place for women to go during menstruation and childbirth. |
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Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge
2005
Filmed in more than 20 countries, Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge looks closely at the most critical health threats facing the world today. This six-part PBS documentary series presents the compelling stories and real-life drama of those who are proving that solutions are indeed possible - and that lives can be saved right now, the world over. |
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The Taint of Yingzhou District
2006
Little is known about the film's main character, Gau Jun, not even his age. Indeed, he does not even speak a word until the closing minutes of the film. Yet the AIDS orphan's search for a home to call his own forms the dramatic center of this stunning documentary set in rural China. |
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A Closer Walk
Bob Bilheimer
A documentary of AIDS and the people affected by the disease on a global scale. Filmed in South Africa, Uganda, Haiti and India. |
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Pandemic: Facing AIDS
Rory Kennedy
Personal stories of people living with AIDS in Uganda, India, Brazil, Thailand and Russia and what is being done to battle a disease that kills 8,000 people a day. |
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