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Links and Resources<br />
Jacqui McDonnell<br />
For more information on Disabilities<br />
and Developing Communities check<br />
out:<br />
Asian Development Bank: website<br />
includes workshops, studies and<br />
guidelines for disabilities in developing<br />
countries.<br />
www.adb.org/socialprotection/<br />
disability.asp<br />
The Australian Disability and Development<br />
Consortium (ADDC): an<br />
Australian network focusing their<br />
attention, expertise and action on disability<br />
issues in developing countries<br />
whilst building a national platform<br />
for disability advocacy.<br />
www.addc.org.au/<br />
Christian Blind Mission International:<br />
centres their work around medical<br />
care in developing communities, preventing<br />
and curing blindness, as well<br />
as the rehabilitation and training and<br />
integration of people who are blind<br />
or have other disabilities.<br />
www.cbmi.org.au or www.cbmi.org<br />
Department for International Development<br />
UK: website includes a great<br />
handbook - Disability, Poverty and<br />
Development suggesting good practices<br />
and areas of action. www.dfid.<br />
gov.uk/Pubs/files/disability.pdf<br />
Source: an international information<br />
support centre designed to strengthen<br />
the management, use and impact of<br />
information on health and disability.<br />
www.asksource.info<br />
United Nations: website includes<br />
resources, policy guidelines and<br />
information on the rights of persons<br />
with disabilities. www.un.org/esa/<br />
socdev/enable/<br />
World Bank: website highlights<br />
current News Events and discussion<br />
papers on people with disabilities.<br />
www.worldbank.org/disability<br />
Dr Sujit and the Calcutta Village Project<br />
Fred Hersch<br />
In March/April <strong>2007</strong>, AMSA and the AMSA IHN brought Dr Sujit of the Calcutta<br />
Village Project to students across Australia. Dr Sujit inspired students<br />
throughout the country with his incredible story of setting up the Calcutta<br />
Village Project in Rural India. Otherwise known as the India Institute for<br />
Mother and Child (IIMC), this has been the focus of Dr Sujitʼs work for over<br />
20 years. From humble beginnings of treating 20 children a day, Dr Sujitʼs<br />
Calcutta Village Project now treats 5,000 children a month and undoubtedly<br />
benefits thousands more.<br />
Dr Sujitʼs experiences were an amazing opportunity to look beyond the<br />
provision of medical services and into the broader issues of development and<br />
the vicous cycle of poverty-ill health-and poverty. Identifying that medical<br />
intervention was ineffective in helping his people out of poverty, Dr Sujit<br />
embarked upon addressing the factors robbing children of opportunities to<br />
a future without poverty, hunger, education, literacy and economic development.<br />
Together with the IFMSA and medical students, Dr Sujit has been able to<br />
not only provide basic medical management, but also to build schools and<br />
organise remote clinics and immunisation programs for thousands of children<br />
and adults alike.<br />
Dr Sujit is a truly remarkable man, and all of those that saw him would agree<br />
it was an inspirational evening.<br />
The Dr Sujit tour was facilitated successfully though the AMSA IHN with<br />
various International Health groups hosting Dr Sujit on various legs of the<br />
journey. It would not have been possible without AMSA. .<br />
If you missed out on this amazing speaker and would like to hear his presentation,<br />
it is now available from the globalHOME website (University of<br />
Sydney) at http://globalhome.redbrick.com.au/wp/<strong>2007</strong>/04/18/drsujit/<br />
<strong>Vector</strong> prizes for prose competition!<br />
Karl Ruhl<br />
Congratulations to the student contributers for this issue of <strong>Vector</strong>, all of<br />
whom have been sent sensational books from Wakefield Press about medics<br />
who have each in their own way made a difference in the lives of many in<br />
disadvantaged communities.<br />
So if you are a medical student studying in Australia and have something interesting<br />
to say about international health, submit your pieces of writing (600<br />
word limit) to vectormag@gmail.com today and win!<br />
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man review, continued from page 1<br />
deceit.<br />
Perkinsʼ compellingly honest description of the situations, events and emotions<br />
that he experienced necessitates that we as readers scrutinise our own<br />
lives and motivations as well as our roles in furthering the injustices of the<br />
corporatocoracy. This disturbing and insightful glimpse into economic<br />
imperialism will leave you no choice but to act.<br />
<strong>Vector</strong> is the magazine of the AMSA International Health Network<br />
page 4<br />
Chief Editor: Sunita DeSousa<br />
Layout: Karl Ruhl<br />
Page 1 photo: Hamish Graham<br />
Early Intervention by: Evelyne Jacq, Tanzania,<br />
CBM<br />
Send your letters, articles and feedback to vectormag@gmail.com!
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