Strategies for Hope Series
Several of the booklets in this very practical series have been mentioned in earlier issues of Footsteps. The series is full of practical advice with many case studies. Booklets 1–7 are now available in French.
No.1 From Fear to Hope AIDS care and prevention at Chikankata Hospital, Zambia
No.2 Living Positively with AIDS The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) in Uganda
No.3 AIDS Management The organisation of a large AIDS programme in Zambia
No.4 Meeting AIDS with Compassion The work of a clinic in Ghana in AIDS prevention and provision of home based care
No.5 AIDS Orphans The effects of AIDS on the family system in Tanzania
No.6 The Caring Community Coping with AIDS in urban Uganda
No.7 All Against AIDS The Copperbelt Health Education Project, Zambia
No.8 Work against AIDS Workplace-based AIDS initiatives in Zimbabwe All booklets are available from TALC. Groups working in Sub-Saharan Africa can request free copies of the booklets.
Write to TALC for more details. People in Kenya should write to: AMREF, PO Box 30125, Nairobi.
People in Uganda should write to: AMREF Uganda, PO Box 51, Entebbe.
People in Tanzania should write to: AIDS Project, AMREF Tanzania, PO Box 2773, Dar es Salaam.
HIV in the Workplace: dealing with the issues
This is a set of seven role-play booklets developed by UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific. They are available from TALC.
Clinical Tuberculosis by John Crofton, Norman Horne and Fred Miller Macmillan 210 pages
ISBN 0-333-56689-0 (paperback)
This book is very highly recommended. It is very comprehensive, practical and easy to read. It is a useful guide for all doctors and health workers who deal with TB. It is available from TALC. Groups unable to pay should write to TALC, describing their work, and ask for a free copy.
MAP International AIDS Training Manuals
MAP is a Christian organisation serving medical missions and national churches. They have recently published a series of very helpful AIDS manuals for health trainers and church leaders to help them in educating their communities about AIDS. There are three manuals – at present in English but soon available in French and Kiswahili…
Facts and Feelings about AIDS
AIDS in your community
Helpers for a Healing Community – a pastoral counselling manual for AIDS
MAP International PO Box 21663 Nairobi Kenya
Control of TB Flipchart
This flipchart emphasises community participation in controlling and preventing TB. It is produced by World Neighbours and is available in English, Spanish and French.
World Neighbours, 4127 NW, 122 St Oklahoma City, OK, 73120 USA
AIDS is our Problem
This is a six-part series of illustrated booklets for community workers. They are available free of charge in English and French for readers in developing countries.
Arid Lands Information Network, Casier Postal 3, Dakar-Fann, Senegal, W Africa
We are on the Radio
A book and a tape produced by Child - to- Child for groups who want to involve children in making radio programmes about health. It is an introduction to the basic skills needed to plan and prepare ideas for radio. The book describes methods to create stories, plays and songs, how to give interviews, making health adverts etc. The tape gives examples and advice on all these ideas and includes a 20 minute programme of children presenting health broadcasts. The programme is copyright free and can be broadcast.
They are available from TALC
The 1-4-1-AIDS-Game
The main purpose of this game is to combine fun for young people with talking and learning about sexual health and AIDS. Playing games often helps people to relax. Introducing ideas about sexual health in a game can help people to overcome their shyness and help them to talk openly about these issues.
The game is available on strong laminated paper. The rules of play are printed on the back in five languages (Portuguese, French, Spanish, Kiswahili and English). The pack includes a dice and teaching about sexual health and AIDS. Two sets of questions (only available in English) are included so that the game can be played at two levels, depending on people’s knowledge about sexual matters – basic and advanced.
Available from TALC.
A Guide to Promote Rural Self-Reliant Development
(A Ghana Experience)
by Wilbert E Tengey ISBN 9964 91 150 5 (paperback)
A helpful guide for people who work with grass roots groups for self-reliant development. It contains chapters on subjects such as the survival of traditional values, working together, understanding community needs, causes of problems, mobilisation techniques, animators and training.
The book has 92 pages, available from African Centre for Human Development, PO Box 0273, Osu-Accra, Ghana
AIDS Action
This newsletter provides information on AIDS care, education and prevention. It is produced by AHRTAG four times a year. It is available free to readers in developing countries. Earlier issues had a very helpful series of six small pull-out booklets, Let’s teach about AIDS, and copies of these are also available.
AHRTAG, 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9SG, UK
ECHO International
This is a Christian based group which specialises in providing medical drugs and equipment to clinics and hospitals overseas. Their prices and services are highly recommended. Write to ECHO for more information and an order form. As an example, here are some of their prices for anti-TB drugs:
Isoniazid 100 mg £1.50
1000 tabs £ 1.50
Isoniazid/Thiacetazone 300 mg
1000 tabs £ 7.10
Rifampicin 300 mg £5.00
100 tabs £ 5.00
ECHO also supply various low-cost
HIV Testing Kits. Simple
HIV-CHEK tests – which do not need a fridge – are available for safe blood transfusions. The price of these is subsidised by donors and they cost £50 for kits with 100 tests.
ECHO International, Ullswater Crescent, Coulsdon, Surrey, CR5 2HR UK
HIV Infection in Children – Slide Set
A new set of 48 slides with a script is now available from TALC. It is aimed at doctors and other health workers who care for children with HIV infection. The different sections look at many issues, including transmission of HIV infection in children, diagnosis, medical problems and breastfeeding. The slide set use self mounting slides.
Una Amenaza, Una Agonia, SIDA by Apolos Landa Tucto Ediciones Puma (CENIP) ISBN 1-871609-27-5
This is a Christian perspective on AIDS with particular reference to Latin America, available only in Spanish. The different chapters look at the current situation, the spread of AIDS in Latin America, the symptoms and cause of AIDS, prevention and the responsibility of the Church. The book encourages Christians and church leaders to communicate, educate, cooperate, console and to coordinate their response to AIDS. There is much to learn about our responsibilities as Christians. The book is particularly helpful since so little has been available to Christians about AIDS in Latin America.
Available from…
Ediciones Puma, – CENIP, Jr Pachitca 266, Apdo 1277, Lima 100, Peru.
Many of the items listed are available from TALC (Teaching Aids at Low Cost) who stock many other books and resources… TALC, PO Box 49, St Albans, AL1 4AX, United Kingdom