When I was going outside North America to work, one of my friends recommended the Hesperian Foundation resources to me. I hadn’t heard of them before, but she told me that they had published “Where There Is No Doctor”, and that it was an extremely useful resources for many people in areas where health care was limited.

When I checked out their website back then, I discovered that they had moved on far beyond that original publication, both in terms of books and languages. And that dedicated work has continued. In 2011, they changed their name to Hesperian Health Guides to better reflect what they do, and launched a digital resource centre to share information via the internet as part of a Digital Commons Initiative.