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ACADEMIC RESOURCES:

Books, CDs & DVDs
A Physician’s Guide to the Internet MedBookStore
Store lists over 80,000 medical books, CD-ROMs and videos at low prices.
http://www.medbookstore.com

Amazon.com
www.Amazon.com

AON Books
Features savings on over 25,000 anthology and archeology books.
www.serve.com

Center for Community Health, Education & Research, Inc. (CCHER)
CCHER is a nonprofit, community-based organization whose mission is to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate HIV/AIDS, STI, and TB education and other social services.
420 Washington Street
Dorchester, MA 02150
Telephone: (617) 265-0628 Ext. 213
www.ccher.org

Doctors Without Boarders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
www.doctorswithoutborders.org

Publications in French, English and Spanish
These publications include “Clinical Guidelines”,  “Essential Drugs”, “Obstetrique en Situation D’Isolement” and “Minor Surgical Procedures in  Remote Areas”, nutrition, public health, AMFAR, The American Foundation for AIDS Research and French Edition.
www.haitimed.com

English/Kreole
One of a series of books of English as a Second Language. This is a good source to learn basic Kreole.
www.amazon.com

Family Health Ministry
Recommendations for Duke Divinity/Medical students interested in exchanges with people in Haiti.
www.familyhm.org

The Fugal Finder
357 N. George Washington Highway
Chesapeake, VA, .23323
Telephone: 1-800-373-4943
E-mail:searcg@frugalfinder.com

Haiti Reborn Resource Guide
Site has lists of books, periodicals, printed resources and links to international NGOs.
www.quixote.org/haiti

International Book Bank, Inc (IBB)
An agency that solicits books from publishers, institutions and individual donors. The IBB maintains a “Book List System”, an inventory to provide information on a variety of materials.
Contact: Suzette Ungvarsky 
Telephone: (410) 636-6895

Last of the Medicine Men
A book that accompanies a BBC series.

Librairie Hirlam  Roger at Gerald HIRLAM
8, Avenue Auber, Nice, France 06000
Tel: 33 (0) 4 93 88 93 51 
librairie.hirlam@wandoo.fr

Mason Integrated Technologies
The organization has information from the N.Y. State Education Department, documents on education and health from Massachusetts and Florida and other states. The Creole links page has Creole translations of texts on Health and Science, and consumer’s bill of rights by Fannie Mae.
P.O. Box 181015
Boston, Mass. 02118, USA 
Telephone: (617) 247-8885
http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/index2.html

Mystic Lands: Bali/Haiti, VHS

Partners in Health (PIH)
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, by Paul Farmer, M.D.
Dying for Growth, by Jim Young Kim, Editor
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated Edition with New Preface, by Paul Farmer
Uses of Haiti, Updated, by Paul Farmer
www.pih.org

Uses of Medical Plants in Haiti
“Plantes Medicinales d’Haiti Discription, Usages et Proprietes", by Mrs. Marilise Neptune-Rouzier, 1997
Also see: http://www.rain-tree.com  Click on to Search the Raintree Web Site” for Haiti
TICO Ethnobotanical Dictionary:  http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/dictionary
http://www.gajma.com

University of Indiana and University of Kansas
Haitian Studies Programs and library and language books/tapes

Where There Is No Doctor by David Werner, et al.
The classic 450 page book includes indexes, pictures, diagnosis and treatment options, a list of medications and dosages. It is translated into 32 languages, including French and Creole. Publisher has books for dental care, women’s health and for midwives.
The Hesperian Foundation
PO Box 11577
Berkley, California 94712-2577

 
Reference Materials

Haiti Reference
Un Guide de Reference sur Haiti
Categories: # 8850-#8854 are Generalites, Dictionnaires, Medicaux, Hopitaux, Organisations Medicales
http://www.haiti-reference.info/accueil.html

Haitian Association Against Cancer
1001 N.E. 125th Street
North Miami, Fl 33161
Telephone: (305) 899-9922
www.haaac.org

Mason Integrated Technologies
www.mit2usa.com

UNESCO
“Learning and Working in Haiti” a youth education project with videos.
www.unesco.org

 
Universities & Colleges

Cornell University and  GHESKIO
(Groupe Haitien d’Etudes du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes)
Weill Cornell Medical College and GHESKIO, a leading health care facility since 1982, initiated the construction of a new facility for AIDS research. 
www.med.cornell.edu

Duke University & Medical Center
Duke maintains a web page with links to their medical services, travel clinic, and international programs. There are links for maps, currency conversion, and the Lonely Planet World Travel Guide.
www.international.duke.edu

Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Haitian Studies Initiative
Contact: Jill Netchinsky Toussaint, Ph.D
Telephone: (617) 495-9797 
E-mail: netchins@fas.harvard.edu
www.fas.harvard.edu/~drclas

Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine

Program in Medical Anthropology
www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
In Haiti, the Bloomberg School of Public Health has men’s and adolescent’s reproductive health
campaigns, Brunache Community Mobilization Sciences, and other projects. Haiti Health Systems 2004, works to provide high-quality health care in partnership with Management Sciences for Health.
Johns Hopkins University
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
www.jhsph.edu

Temple University School of Dentistry
Temple and Haitian Health Foundation organized a student/faculty dental team that held clinics in, and in the area surrounding Jeremie, Haiti.
Contact: Bonnie Graham
3223 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA. 19140

Universite Haiti, Faculte d’Odontologle

Rue Oswald Durand, #87, Port-au-Prince, Haiti    
Telephone: 011-509-1 2 4346

University of Florida
The College of Dentistry’s International Programs serves the community with student and faculity
volunteers. The university has several collaborative projects in agriculture, nutrition, political science, and medicine. See their web site for current information.
www.ufl.edu

University of Miami School of Medicine
Project Medishare is the University Of Miami School Of Medicine’s affiliated organization created to provide medicine and health care to underserved areas of Haiti. Program works collaboratively with medical students, health care providers, practicing physicians in Haiti and the United States.
Contact: Andre Vulcain, M.D., Faculty Liaison
Telephone: (305) 243-2764
www.med.miami.edu/index.asp

 
Other

Academy for Educational Development / LINKAGES Project
The LINKAGES Project provides technical assistance on the infant feeding component of policies and programs to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS. The program includes development of training curricula and faciliatation of training workshops and the prevention of mother-to-child transmission.
1825 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20009-5721
Telephone : (202) 884-8845
www.linkagesproject.com

The Friends of St. Vincent's Center
The Friends of St. Vincent's Center is an interfaith outreach ministry of St. James's Episcopal Church in West Hartford. Its mission is to provide food, medical, educational, and musical supplies to the children at St. Vincent's Center.
St. James's Episcopal Church
19 Walden Street West Hartford, CT 06107
Telephone : (860) 233-8366
www.friendsofstvincents.org

Haiti Medical
Haitimedical.com is a voluntary, nongovernmental, noncommercial website that promotes the use of information technology in the Haitian health sector. The website providesa searchable, online directory of Haitian physicians.
P.O. Box 413
Washington Mills, NY 13479
Telephone : (585) 234-8837
www.haitimedical.com

Haitian Organization Program for Education and Health (HOPEH)
HOPEH is a nonprofit organization founded to provide better education and health programs to one of the poorest regions in Haiti. Located at 68 Rue de la Reunion in Port-au-Prince, the organization provides medical and school supplies in Haiti.
Education and Health
50 Barrett Parkway, Suite 1200-103
Marietta, GA 30184
Telephone : (404) 862-4427
E-mail : hopeforkids@peoplepc.com

Hope for Haiti Foundation
The Hope for Haiti Foundation has an accredited school at La Croix Perisse and an orphanage at Kaloa Beach.
217 Fiddlers Point Drive
St. Augustine, FL 32080-6134
Telephone : (904) 471-4971
E-mail : hopeforhaiti@aug.comL

Konbit Sante Cap-Haitien Health Partnership
The Konbit Sante Cap-Haitien Health Partnership organization aims to support the development of a sustainable health care system to meet the needs of the Cap-Haitien community.
J. Michael Taylor, M.D., M.P.H.
President
395 Spring Street
Portland, ME 04102
Telephone : (207) 774-5744
www.konbitsante.org

 

 

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