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Relax – we don’t really send real babies anywhere. And we don’t think AIDS is a game. But we do send a free cut-out sheet we call the ‘TALC Baby’ to health workers in developing countries. They use it to teach traditional birth attendants and other people who may not have any midwifery training the essential points about how to deliver babies safely! And our AIDS game teaches players about some of the very real dangers of AIDS. TALC health books and materials are often the only support some doctors and nurses have, when they are working with poor, sick people in African countries and across the world. Will you give us £ 100,000 to set up and run a facility within TALC to continue producing and distributing these life-saving books and CDs ?
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A health worker living on a remote island in Zambia with only one health clinic and a very limited supply of drugs for a population of 50,000 recently wrote to us: “A lot of women lose their lives because we have no books to help us teach them primary health care. Please assist us by sending us your health materials.” TALC has just updated, produced and donated over 4,000 free copies of a book called 'Onde Nao Ha Medico/Where There Is No Doctor’ to health workers in Portuguese-speaking African countries, like Mozambique andAngola. Why do health workers working in developing countries love TALC books and CDs ? - Because our materials are specially written for them and for the conditions they work in. Most medical textbooks assume the health worker has had years of training and access to sophisticated equipment. Many health workers in developing countries do not necessarily have either. And yet they are trying to save the lives of very poor and very sick people. TALC books deal with the conditions they work in, and the type of cases they encounter. First-hand descriptions of cases or diseases they have worked on, complete with photos, can be uniquely helpful to others working with the same problems. Advice from other health workers in the fight against malaria can mean the difference between life or death – especially when treatments have to change because of increased resistance to available drugs. TALC has the experience to do this. For over 40 years we have been distributing our materials at low cost to health workers in developing countries, mostly Africa. Please help us to go on producing these books ! TALC Publications Centre We need £ 100,000 to set up a permanent resource with equipment, software, specially-trained staff, and a projects fund. This would allow us to produce these badly-needed free health training materials and keep them at as low a cost as possible. With a permanent publications centre we could also take on other health materials production which could contribute to the Centre becoming self-financing. TALC books and CDs really do save lives in poor countries ! Find out more: Webpage: www.talcuk.org