Health Books International

[3] Originally TALC compiled 35mm slide sets with accompanying notes that clinical teachers could use to illustrate their lectures, showing, for example, what a measles or smallpox rash looks like.

Experts who had worked in resource-poor environments including Professor Sandy Cairncross, Gabrielle Palmer, Jane Wilson-Howarth and others joined as managing trustees.

However practical guides about clinical medicine, health training materials and information on environmental sanitation for use in low income, non-industrialised countries are still needed.

According to the Chair's Report of 2015, over the course of its 50-year history TALC/HBI has sent over 10 million books, photographic slides and accessories to thousands of healthcare workers in low-income countries and fragile states.

[6] In addition, HBI supply grass roots organisations like PHASE (Practical Help Achieving Self Empowerment) with low cost materials including colour chart cards for rapid diagnosis of anaemia.

[citation needed] The charity operated with a minimal number of paid staff and several volunteers who packed and dispatched books and teaching materials but also helped on many other levels.