# E-DRUG: Books for Developing Countries: Call for $$$$ **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [January 18, 1997, 8:50pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-books-for-developing-countries-call-for/328 "1997-01-18T20:50:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![srahmad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@srahmad](https://talk.edrugplus.org/u/srahmad)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 1997, 8:50pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-books-for-developing-countries-call-for/328/1 "1997-01-18T20:50:11Z")
Dear friends,               Having worked and lived in a developing country for most of my life, I know how difficult and expensive it is to acquire authoritative sources of drug information. Even libraries in medical/pharmacy schools in most developing countries cannot afford to buy journals/books. Keeping this in view, I have collected some copies of 1996 and earlier editions of the United States Pharmacopieal Drug Information for the Health Care Professional (Volume 1), and Advice for the Patient: Drug Information in Lay Language (Volume 2). Since mailing of these publications is very exorbitant, I wonder if anyone is aware of organizations/individuals who are willing to cover the shipping expenses for these important references. Presently, I intend to send out these publications to groups in developing countries. Depending on how this experiment works, there is a possibility to send out medical/pharmacy journals as well.       Any help in identifying individuals/organizations who are willing to help pay the shipping expenses will be appreciated. Please reply to me directly (srahmad@essential.org) rather than the entire list. Many thanks.       Syed Rizwanuddin Ahmad, MD, MPH Email: srahmad@essential.org ----Note from the E-drug moderator: There was an offer from the IFPMA (the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Associations) in the 1980's to supply drug regulatory authorities in developing countries with some free publications such as ABPI Compendium, VIDAL, etc The Essential Drug Project (Philippa Saunders, email edp@gn.apc.org) in UK did supply previous editions of British National Formulary and Martindale to projects in dev. countries. The German donor Misereor did support paying for postage of essential drug publications as well. If anyone knows of more sources, please send them to Syed. Wilbert Bannenberg, E-drug moderator -- Send mail for the `E-Drug' conference to `e-drug@usa.healthnet.org'. Mail administrative requests to `majordomo@usa.healthnet.org'. For additional assistance, send mail to: `owner-e-drug@usa.healthnet.org'.