Reading List
Here are some books, articles, reports, and resources that the ACTION staff recommends for fellow advocates:
Books Articles Reports Advocacy Resources
BOOKS
Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis by Thomas Daniel (University of Rochester Press, 1999)
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett (Penguin Group, 1994)
Essentials of Global Health by Richard L. Skolnik (Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Inc., 2008)
Fatal Indifference: G8, Africa & Global Health by Ronald Labonte (Juta Academic, 2004)
Global Health Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health by Laurie Garrett (Hyperion, 2000)
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul Farmer (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999, revised edition 2001)
Living In the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History by Sheila Rothman (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (Random House, 1996)
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder (Random House, 2003)
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, 2005 edition)
The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960-2000 Edited by Benno J. Ndulu, Stephen A. O'Connell, Robert H. Bates, Paul Collier and Charles C. Soludo (Cambridge University Press 2007)
The Politics of Emerging and Resurgent Infectious Diseases by Jim Whitman (Palgrave MacMillan, 2000)
Positive Carers: The Rights and Responsibilities of HIV Positive Health Care Workers by Paul Thorn (formerly Mayho) (Continuum International Publishing Group, 1996)
Poverty, Hunger & Development Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (Oxford University Press, 2001)
TB Tips: Advice for People with Tuberculosis by Paul Thorn (TBSP in association with the Stop TB Partnership)
Timebomb: The Global Epidemic of Multi-Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis by Lee Reichman with Janice Hopkins Tanne (McGraw-Hill, 2001)
Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told by Frank Ryan (Swift Publishers, 1992)
The Tuberculosis Survival Handbook: Second Edition by Paul Thorn (formerly Mayho) (Merit Publishing International, 1st edition 1999, 2nd edition 2006)
White Death: A History of Tuberculosis by Thomas Dormandy (Diane Publishing Company, 1999)
The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society by René and Jean Dubos (Rutgers University Press, 1987)
Women, Poverty & AIDS: Sex, Drugs and Structural Violence (Series in Health and Social Justice) Edited by Janie Simmons, Paul Farmer and Margaret Connors (Common Courage Press, 1996)
The World Bank and the Gods of Lending by Steve Berkman (Kumarian Press, 2008)
ARTICLES
Diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in people with HIV infection or AIDS in resource-constrained settings: informing urgent policy changes by Haileyesus Getahun et al (http://www.thelancet.com, pp. 1-8, February 28, 2007)
Domestic returns from investment in the control of tuberculosis in other countries by Kevin Schwartzman, M.D., M.P.H. et al (New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 353, pp. 1008-20, September 8, 2005)
Evolution of WHO policies for tuberculosis control, 1948-2001 by M C Raviglione and A Pio (The Lancet, Vol. 359, pp 775-780, March 2, 2002)
Expanding antiretroviral therapy in Malawi: drawing on the country's experience with tuberculosis by Anthony D Harries et al (British Medical Journal, Vol. 329, pp. 1163-66, November 13, 2004)
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis as a cause of death in patients co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV in a rural area of South Africa by Neel R Gandhi et al (http://www.thelancet.com, Vol. 368, pp. 1575-80, November 4, 2006)
The politics of ‘branding' in policy transfer: the case of DOTS for tuberculosis control, by Jessica Ogden, Gill Walt and Louisiana Lush (Social Science & Medicine 57 (2003) 179-188)
Socio-economic impact of parental tuberculosis on children by S. Geetharamani et al (Indian Journal of Tuberculosis, Vol. 48 No. 2, pp. 91-94, April 2001)
Stopping tuberculosis proves hard to do (http://www.thelancet.com, Vol. 369, p. 965, March 24, 2007)
Tuberculosis: 12. Global disease and the role of international collaboration by Donald A. Enarson (Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 162 No. 1, pp. 57-61, January 11, 2007)
Tuberculosis in New York City - Turning the Tide by Thomas R. Frieden (New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 333 No. 4, pp 229-233, July 27, 1995)
Why and how tuberculosis control should be included in health sector reviews by Bert Schreuder et al (Tropical Medicine and International Health, Vol. 9 No. 8, pp 910-916, August 2004)
REPORTS
Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World by The WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance (February 2008)
Putting TB on the Local Agenda by the APPG on Global TB and the British Thoracic Society (March 2008)
Economic Benefit of Tuberculosis Control by Ramanan Laxminarayan et al. (August 2007) T he Global MDR-TB and XDR-TB Response Plan 2007-2008 by WHO's Stop TB Parnership (2007)
The Global Plan to Stop TB 2006-2015 by the Stop TB Partnership (2006)
An Inadequate Response: More Than Two Decades of Complacency In Addressing the TB/HIV Co-epidemic by RESULTS UK (November 2007)
Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health by The Center for Global Development (2004)
Scaling up the UK's response to the global TB epidemic: AN AGENDA FOR ACTION by the APPG on Global TB (March 2007)
What the Papers Aren't Saying: How Can We Enhance Media Coverage of TB? by Panos Global AIDS Programme (March 2007)
WHO Global Tuberculosis Control Report (2008)
World Bank Spending on Tuberculosis by Dr. Alexander Soucy (June 23, 2005)
ADVOCACY RESOURCES
The Action Letter Portfolio: Writing Advocacy Letters that Work by White, G.,Thompson, et al (The Research and Training Center on Independent Living, University of Kansas, 1998.)
The Activist's Handbook: A Primer for the 1990s and Beyond by Randy Shaw (University of California Press, 1996)
Advocacy Skills in Action by Fabricio Balcazar & Tom Seekins (Independent Living Forum Vol. 4 No. 1, Winter 1986)
Advocacy Toolkit Pt. 1: Understanding Advocacy by Graham Gordon (Tearfund, 2002)
Advocacy Toolkit Pt. 2: Practical Action in Advocacy by Graham Gordon (Tearfund, 2002)
Basics of Organizing by Shel Trapp (Chicago: National Training and Information Center, 1986)
Communication Skills Smooth Way for Advocates by Tom Seekins & Fabricio Balcazar (Independent Living Forum, Vol. 4 No. 1, Winter 1986)
Dictionary of Human Rights Advocacy Organizations in Africa by Santosh Saha (Greenwood Press, 1999)
Dynamics of Organizing by Shel Trapp (Chicago: National Training and Information Center, 1986)
A Guide for Personal Testimony: The Art of Using Your Personal Experiences to Influence Policy Decisions by Tom Seekins & Stephen B. Fawcett (The Research and Training Center on Independent Living, University of Kansas, 1984.)
A Guide to Writing Letters to the Editor: Expressing Your Opinion to the Public Effectively by Tom Seekins & Stephen B. Fawcett (The Research and Training Center on Independent Living, University of Kansas)
A Guide to Writing Letters to Public Officials: Contributing to Important Decisions Affecting You and Others by Tom Seekins & Stephen B. Fawcett (The Research and Training Center on Independent Living, University of Kansas)
Lobbying and Advocacy Handbook for Nonprofit Organizations: Shaping Public Policy at the State and Local Level by Marcia Avner (Fieldstone Alliance, 2007)
Organizing for Power and Empowerment by Jacqueline B. Mondros & Scott M. Wilson (New York, Columbia University Press, 1994)
Organizing for Social Change: A Manual for Activists in the 1990's by Kim Bobo, et al (2nd edition, Seven Locks Press, 1996)
Patient Advocacy for Health Care Quality: Strategies for Achieving Patient-Centered Care by Jo Anne L. Earp, ScD, et al. (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2008)
Power in Policy: A Funder's Guide to Advocacy and Civic Participation by David F. Aarons, Ed. (Fieldstone Alliance, 2007)
Reveille for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky (Reissue edition, Vintage Books, 1991)
Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky (Revised edition, Vintage Books, 1989)
Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy by Rinku Sen (Jossey-Bass, 2003)