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
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
Universities & Colleges
Cornelland 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
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
www.jhsph.edu
Temple 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
University of 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
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
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