Resources And Intentional Travel

(This list was compiled by UUGAC board members. Please let us know of other resources you would like to recommend.)

FILMS

•  Their Brothers Keepers. Bullfrog Films

•  Sowing Seeds of Hunger. Bullfrog Films

•  HIV/AIDS in Africa: Engaging America in the Battle. Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University

•  The Value of Life. Bullfrog Films

•  Coming to Say Good-bye. Afrus-AIDS and MaryKnoll Productions

•  A Closer Walk

•  Epidemic Africa, Moxie Firecracker Films

•  Yesterday (First South African film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film)

•  The Ball (5 minutes; from Mozambique. Innovative use of condoms.)

•  State of Denial (South Africa; A cross section of South Africans involved with the AIDS epidemic. How they have had to fight the greed of the pharmaceutical companies and the denial of their own government.)

•  Living with Slim (A series of compelling interviews with Ugandan children age 6 – 17 born with the HIV virus)

BOOKS

•  Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

•  Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS by Anne-Christine D'Adesky

•  Letting them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs Fail by Catherine Campbell

•  Race Against Time by Stephen Lewis

•  AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology by Jayatti Ghosh

•  Black Death by Susan Hunter

•  Children of AIDS: African Orphan Crisis by Emma Guest

•  AIDS, Sexuality and Gender in Africa by Carolyn Baylies and JanetBujra

•  Women and AIDS in Rural Africa: Rural Women's View of AIDS in Zambia by Genevieve Mwale

•  Turning to One Another by Margaret J Wheatley

•  The Children of Africa Confront AIDS by Arvind Singhal and W. Stephen Howard

•  The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs

•  Our Common Interest. The report of the Commission for Africa. UK Commission chaired by Tony Blair. www.commissionforAfrica.org lations

•  More than Humanitarianism: A Strategic US Approach Toward Africa. Council on Foreign Relations

•  Finding Work in Global Health, 2005 edition by Garth Osborn and Patricia Ohmans

INTENTIONAL TRAVEL

Many UU's would like to put their ideals into action on the ground by visiting affected countries and working with communities impacted by HIV/AIDS. We will post information as travel opportunities become available and/or circulate information via the newsletter mailing list..

More information:

Carla Feldhammer at hospice88@aol.com for trips organized by the Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa

Peter Smith at psmith@igc.org for how to get involved with Communities Without Borders