BOOKS AND MANUALS AVAILABLE FROM AIFO

The Raoul Follereau International School of Learning through AIFO regularly publishes books and manuals, which are available free of charge to individuals, professionals, libraries, training centres, etc., especially in developing countries.

AIFO also provides possibility of downloading many books, manuals and reports related to leprosy, primary health care, disability & Rehabilitation, etc. You can look at the list of available materials.

AIFO also coordinates the production of teaching and learning materials in Portuguese for the Federation of International Anti-Leprosy Associations (ILEP) for Africa. Some of these books in Portuguese published by ILEP are available free of cost from AIFO, in limited quantities.

At present we have the following books available free of cost at AIFO:

1. Related to Community-Based rehabilitation

1. Poverty, Health and Development, Volume 17 of International Health Cooperation papers, edited by S. Deepak, published by AIFO/Italy, 2003 (English, total pages 160)

2. Community-based rehabilitation in Vietnam - guidelines to design a pilot project, by Lorenzo Pierdomenico, AIFO Vietnam

3. Disability and development cooperation in the Mediterranean area, proceedings of a conference held in September 2007 (bilingual in English and Italian, with an accompanying CD)

2. Related to Leprosy

1. Como diagnosticare e tratar a Lepra, Guia Didàtico 1, ILEP (in Portuguese)

2. Como reconhecer e tratar as reaçoes lepròticas, Guia Didatico 2 (in Portuguese)

3. Guia Para Reabilitação sôcio economica de Pessoas Afetadas pela Hanseniase, ILEP London, 1999, 61 pages (in Portuguese)

4. Leprosy in the Africans A Pictorial documentation - Doença de Hansen nos Africanos - Uma documetação fotografica, DAHW-LEPRA-TLMI/ILEP, London, 2003 (Updated version) 52 pages (Bilingual in English and Portugese)

3. Other themes

1. Report of the south asian regional conference on traditional medicine and right to health for all, proceedings of a conference organised jointly by Italian cooperation, AIFO, People's Health Movement and COE in Bangalore (India) in December 2006

How to receive: If you would like to receive a free copy of any of above send an email to sunil.deepakataifo.it (substitute at in the address with @). Remember to send us your full postal address and the number of copies required. The books will be supplied on first come first serve basis till exhaustion of stocks. The books are sent by airmail without any costs for you.