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Hesperian has made a commitment to publish online versions of all of our books and to keep those online editions up-to-date, incorporating all corrections and revisions as they are made.

Presently we have materials from the following publications:

Where There Is No Doctor
Where Women Have No Doctor
A Book for Midwives
HIV Health and Your Community
Helping Children Who Are Deaf
A factory worker's guide to organizing for safe jobs and healthy communities
A community guide to environmental health
Women's Health Exchange

We are happy to have other organizations link to our online publications, but in order to prevent out-of-date or altered editions of our publications from being accessed online, we do not allow Hesperian publications to be posted on other sites without our explicit permission.

We will be posting online versions of all of our publications in the coming months, so please visit our site again soon to see what new resources are available.

All of the materials below are in PDF format. If you have Adobe Reader installed on your computer, click a link below and the material will open in that program. Use the program save function to download the file to your local disk. If you do not have the program installed, click the link and you will be prompted to select a location on your computer for download. You can download Adobe Reader free from the Adobe Web Site.

 

Where There Is No Doctor

We are happy to have other organizations link to our online publications, but in order to prevent out-of-date or altered editions of our publications from being accessed online, we do not allow Hesperian publications to be posted on other sites without our explicit permission.

The entire book is now available for download:

To buy the complete book, visit our online store

 

Where Women Have No Doctor

We are happy to have other organizations link to our online publications, but in order to prevent out-of-date or altered editions of our publications from being accessed online, we do not allow Hesperian publications to be posted on other sites without our explicit permission.

The entire book is now available for download:

To buy the complete book, visit our online store

 

A Book for Midwives

We are happy to have other organizations link to our online publications, but in order to prevent out-of-date or altered editions of our publications from being accessed online, we do not allow Hesperian publications to be posted on other sites without our explicit permission.

The entire book is now available for download:

  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction-Chapter 3: Words to midwives, Treating health problems, A woman's body in pregnancy
  • Chapters 4-6: Helping women stay healthy, Preventing infection, Common changes in pregnancy
  • Chapters 7-8: Learning a pregnant woman's health history, Prenatal checkups
  • Chapters 9-11: Getting ready for labor and birth, Giving good care during labor and birth, Opening: stage 1 of labor
  • Chapters 12-13: Pushing: stage 2 of labor, The birth of the placenta: stage 3 of labor
  • Chapters 14-16: The first few hours after the birth, The first weeks after the birth, Breastfeeding
  • Chapters 17-18: Family Planning, Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
  • Chapter 19: Advanced skills for pregnancy and birth
  • Chapters 20-21: The pelvic exam: How to examine a woman's vagina and womb, How to insert an IUD
  • Chapter 22: Helping a woman after a pregnancy ends early
  • Chapter 23: Manual vacuum aspiration
  • Chapter 24-25; Appendices: Getting medical help, Homemade tools and teaching materials, Medicines (green pages), To learn more, Technical and medical words, Index (yellow pages), Due date calculator
Here is a packet of selected chapters on
women's reproductive health

To buy the complete book, visit our online store

 

HIV, Health, and Your Community

We are happy to have other organizations link to our online publications, but in order to prevent out-of-date or altered editions of our publications from being accessed online, we do not allow Hesperian publications to be posted on other sites without our explicit permission.

The entire book is now available for download:

 

Helping Children Who Are Deaf

We are happy to have other organizations link to our online publications, but in order to prevent out-of-date or altered editions of our publications from being accessed online, we do not allow Hesperian publications to be posted on other sites without our explicit permission.

View and download chapters:

 

A factory worker's guide to organizing for safe jobs and healthy communities

We are happy to have other organizations link to our online publications, but in order to prevent out-of-date or altered editions of our publications from being accessed online, we do not allow Hesperian publications to be posted on other sites without our explicit permission.

A major section of this new book is now available for download: Work dangers and solutions

 

A community guide to environmental health

We are happy to have other organizations link to our online publications, but in order to prevent out-of-date or altered editions of our publications from being accessed online, we do not allow Hesperian publications to be posted on other sites without our explicit permission.

View and download chapters and fact sheets of this upcoming publication:

 

The Women's Health Exchange

We are happy to have other organizations link to our online publications, but in order to prevent out-of-date or altered editions of our publications from being accessed online, we do not allow Hesperian publications to be posted on other sites without our explicit permission.

The Women's Health Exchange (published in English) and ¡Saludos! (published in Spanish), are free resources for education and training in women's health. These newsletters are designed to help women and community groups from around the world learn more about each other, share training ideas and information, and promote popular education on women's health.

The following samples are available to view and print in PDF format:

More issues will be available online soon!

 

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