Financial support

The HIV Book Project needs your help. A financial contribution can be used to distribute subsidized and free books to AIDS projects in heavily impacted areas. It can also help jumpstart translation projects.

A donation to the Hesperian Foundation can go a long way

• For $13—Provide HIV, Health and Your Community: a guide for action to serve an entire community.
  
  
• For $130—Provide 10 health books to serve 10 communities.
  
  
• For $500-$1,000—Help a grassroots health group translate HIV, Health and Your Community: a guide for action into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Vietnamese, or Shona.

Here are the ways that you can direct your donations:

We receive many requests each week from village health workers, teachers, ministers, volunteers, and other people working in community-based AIDS projects who cannot afford even our lowest book prices. Each $13 you send will put one of our books into the hands of a health worker, affecting the health of an entire community.

HIV Book Direct Donations—select your preferred community-based AIDS organizations

If you are working with or are aware of a community-based AIDS organization in need of book(s) please feel free to include their address with your check and we will forward the book to them in your name or if you prefer anonymously.

Health workers around the world are eager to use HIV, Health and Your Community as soon as they can. However, the book is written in English and has not yet been translated. We have already heard from groups interested in translating the book into other languages including Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Shona. These groups need financial help to do so. The HIV Book Translation Fund will give grants of up to $2000 to enable grassroots groups to get translations off the ground quickly and attract additional funding.

How to send your contribution

Your gift to the Hesperian Foundation is tax-deductible.

Please write all checks to "The Hesperian Foundation" Please indicate on the check or in a letter how you would like us to use your money. (e.g., Gratis HIV Book Fund; HIV Book Direct Donations-add organization/individual's name; HIV Book Translations Fund).

Please send the check to:

The Hesperian Foundation
Attention: HIV book-"Gratis HIV Book Fund"

Other ways to help:

Please send us feedback about the book

We are currently putting together materials for the second edition. We would like to hear how you used the book. We are especially interested in learning about what worked and what did not work for your AIDS project.

Help us find organizations interested in partnering to purchase and distribute the book

We are currently working with a variety of governmental and non-governmental agencies to distribute the book. The most helpful arrangement is for the agency to buy the book and then use it as support materials for their projects. If you know of an interested organization we would be happy to provide books at a bulk discount rate.

Send us a description of your aids prevention project

We are currently gathering materials for the second edition of the book. If it is acceptable to your members, we would be delighted to feature your project in the next edition. We are also building a list of projects that could use books when the funds become available. Finally, all of our proceeds are donated to community-based AIDS organizations—we would like to have your information so that we can ask you for a proposal.

If you are interested in any of these activities, or if you have a different idea of how you can help the HIV Book Project we would love to hear from you via either regular mail (using the address provided above) or e-mail to