• Hesperian Health Guides (was Hesperian Foundation)
• 1919 Addison Street, Suite 304
• Berkeley, CA 94704
• Phone: 888-729-1796
• Fax: 510-845-0539
• E-mail: hesperian@hesperian.org
• Web: www.hesperian.org

They have published some of the most useful information to encourage community-based health care in developing countries. It is written to help both professional and lay medical care workers alike.

They are especially famous for producing Where There Is No Doctor. (By David Werner with Carol Thurman & Jane Maxwell; Revised/updated in 2010 ($22.00 for English version; $20.00 for Spanish version.) This classic been described as "perhaps the most widely-used health care manual in the world." Reading it should be among the first steps for anyone wanting to learn about health care issues facing most of the world's population. They now have books in a CD version.

The Foundation has published over 25 related books in English and Spanish, such as Where There Is No Dentist; Where Women Have No Doctor; HIV Health and Your Community; Disabled Village Children; Helping Health Workers Learn; and Helping Children Who Are Blind: Family and Community Support for Children With Vision Problems; and A Book for Midwives. These books are good gifts for overseas. They also publish two free eight-page newsletters each quarter and have Web links to several other groups helping in developing countries. Recently they set up an internet program whereby their material is made available in many more languages.