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The No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS
Usdin, Shereen
Book
2003
This book gives an overview of the origins of HIV, the ways in which it spreads, the profits made by drug companies, women's special vulnerability and the positive action being taken by people and com...
The Political Economy of Health
Doyal, Lesley
Book
1979
Social Determinants of Health
Marmot, Michael; Wilkinson, Richard (eds.)
Book
A wide ranging collection providing health records from around the world
Women in Development: A Resource Guide for Organization and Action
ISIS Women's International Information and Communication Service
Book
This guide offers an exploration of the relationship between women and multinationals, rural development, health, education, migration, etc. It presents concrete tools for activists and directs reader...

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Canadian Society for International Health
To facilitate education and research in international health through the mobilization of Canadian resources.
Doctors Without Borders / M‚decins Sans FrontiŠres Canada
M‚decins Sans FrontiŠres is the world's leading independent, humanitarian medical relief organization. Since 1991, thousands of volunteers have brought emergency medical aid to people worldwide who a...
Ontario Council for International Cooperation
OCIC is a coalition of seventy organizations involved in international development and global education in Ontario which are active in Asia, Africa and Latin America. OCIC assists its members to co-or...
WaterCan
WaterCan is a leading Canadian charity dedicated to fighting global poverty by helping the world's poorest people gain access to clean water, basic sanitation and hygiene education.

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One latrine at a time
Liberia's president is unusually frank as she agrees that toilets are fundamental to creating a healthier country
George, Rose
2012
Diarrhoea kills more children than HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined – and its main cause is food and water contaminated with human waste. Liberia's president is trying to change all that. ...