Gifts of Health Make a Difference

Looking for meaningful gifts for friends and family this season? Honor the special people in your life with Hesperian Gifts of Health. We will send your honorees illustrated cards letting them know that a life-saving Hesperian book or set of books was sent in their names to a poor community in Africa, Asia, or Latin America. These books will provide critical support to communities that lack access to healthcare.

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Global Health Watch 2 Available for Download!

We’re pleased to announce that Global Health Watch 2 is now available for free download or purchase through Hesperian’s website. Like its critically acclaimed predecessor, the second edition of Global Health Watch covers a comprehensive range of topics, including access to medicines, mental health, water and sanitation, nutrition, and war and conflict.

Unlike other reports on global health, it also draws attention to the politics of global health and the policies and actions of key players. Global Health Watch 2 includes chapters on the United States foreign assistance program, the Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the Global Fund to Fight to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Other Global Health Watch 2 supporters include the People’s Health Movement. You can download a summary in Spanish from our Spanish website www.espanol.hesperian.org

Translations of our Newest Book!

Hesperian’s partners working in languages other than English were excited to receive A Community Guide to Environmental Health and many are now working to translate, adapt, and make its contents accessible in their communities.

Editions are currently planned and underway in many languages, including: Portuguese (for Mozambique); Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and an English adaptation (all for India); Pashto and Urdu (for Pakistan); Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Mongolian, and Nepali; Swahili (for Tanzania); French (for West Africa); Bambarra and Peulh (for Mali); Chichewa (for Malawi); and Polish – a first in that language for a Hesperian title!

Hesperian provides “seed grants”-- a small amount of financial support to these editions, and extends our technical support, encouragement and world-wide network of contacts to help our many partners, old and new, bring their editions into print (and onto the web!). We consider these editions to be among the most important forms of distribution in which we engage. The work of our translation partners will create more opportunities for community mobilization and change around issues of environmental health that are essential if humans are to find healthier, sustainable ways to live.

Hesperian Celebrates Clinton Global Initiative Commitment and Grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

President Bill Clinton recently highlighted Hesperian's Commitment to empower communities in confronting the death and disease that a lack of safe drinking water and sanitation cause at the Clinton Global Initiative gathering in New York. Hesperian is also delighted to announce that it is the recipient of a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to update and expand one of our most important titles, Where There Is No Doctor. More...

Hesperian announces our New Spanish-language Web Site: http://espanol.hesperian.org!

This user-friendly, easy-to-navigate web site offers all of the features of our website in English - current health news, information on upcoming publications, and free down-loadable versions of most of our titles. Plus a complete bookstore, all in Spanish, ready to ship anywhere in the world. You can access the Spanish website by clicking on the ESPAÑOL button, located in the top right corner of this page.

Now available: Ayudar a los niños sordos, the Spanish translation of Helping Children Who Are Deaf.

And coming soon: Un manual de salud para mujeres con discapacidad. Visit Books in Progress to learn more.

You Can Get Involved

There are many ways you can get involved and promote Health for All.

If you have a birthday, anniversary, or other special occasion coming up, ask your friends and family to give you a Gift of Health, which will send free life-saving health books in your name to a community that has requested them.

You can volunteer, donate or host a house party to introduce Hesperian to your friends and family.

If you have a blog or website, you can also create a Hesperian Charity Badge to your website to help raise awareness and support for Hesperian's work!