Where Women Have No Doctor/Donde no hay doctor para mujeres
by A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell, and Katharine Shapiro
CD, illustrated, ISBN13: 978-0-942364-27-9
Where Women Have No Doctor: June 1997. Fourth revised printing: June 2010.
Donde no hay doctor para mujeres: 1999. Second revised printing March 2012.

Where Women Have No Doctor and Donde no hay doctor para mujeres are now available together on one CD! This CD contains the complete text of both books, in pdf format. And it's provided in two forms, a low resolution version which will load easily on your computer, and a high resolution version which will print attractively.

Where Women Have No Doctor/Donde no hay doctor para mujeres combine self-help medical information with an understanding of the ways poverty, discrimination and cultural beliefs limit women's health and access to care. Developed with community-based groups and medical experts from more than 30 countries, Where Women Have No Doctor/Donde no hay doctor para mujeres is an essential resource for any woman who wants to improve her health, and for health workers who want more information about the problems that affect only women, or that affect women differently from men.

Topics covered include:

• Ways to stay healthy
• Pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding
• Health concerns of women with disabilities, girls, older women and refugees
• Sexual health, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections
• The use of medicines in women's health
• Mental health
• The politics of women's health
• Rape and other violence against women

The new 2012 printing of Donde no hay doctor para mujeres reflects 13 years of changes in global health realities. This major update to the classic Spanish women's health manual includes: early detection of stomach and cervical cancer; updated information on TB, and the treatment of TB; updated treatment of sexually transmitted infections; new and updated information on HIV, including living positively with HIV, and new WHO guidelines on antiretroviral therapy and preventing parent-to-child transmission; the latest on a wide range of family planning methods; care for women who have had abortions; up-to-date statistics and resources; and new and updated medicines recommendations.

Related Materials

• Download this title in either English or Spanish on our Free Downloads page.
• This title is also available in several other languages. For a complete listing, visit our Resources by Language page.
• If you are interested in women's health, you may also find interest in A Book for Midwives, our lay manual for traditional birth attendants worldwide.

What people have to say about Where Women Have No Doctor/Donde no hay doctor para mujeres:

"Where Women Have No Doctor covers a broad range of issues that concern women's health.... The text includes clear, reliable, useful, and updated information, and encourages collaboration among women and participation at the community level. Aware of the limited schooling and reading capacity of many in this audience, the authors succeed in providing high-quality, updated information in an easily accessible format. The quality of its contents make this book one of the best (if not THE best) guides for women's health at the community level. The main contributions of this book include its approach, which reflects the most advanced concepts in the field of women's health."
-Ana Langer, Director, Population Council Regional Office for Latin America and the Carribean