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No Time to Lose by Peter Piot- a really good read for anyone interested in global health! Peter Piot candidly & engrossingly recounts adventures from his days chasing Ebola in Central Africa and his fight against HIV as director of UNAIDS.
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One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina “If every journey has a moment of magic, this is mine.  Anything seems possible.  In the dark like this, everything we say seems free of consequence, the music is rich, and our bodies are lent brotherhood by the light of the fire.”
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Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa by Stephen Lewis A powerful testimony that will make you THINK.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains — Tracy Kidder tells the story of Dr. Paul Farmer “The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that’s wrong with the world.”  This is the book that started it all for me…
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Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo A great read for those interested in international development— taught me a lot!
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Half the Sky— an inspiring read! “The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day.” -This fact alone made me pick up this book.
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They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky— an incredible book about 3 Lost Boys from Sudan that will break your heart and then fill it up with the amazing resilience of the human spirit.  
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Written by the former international president of Doctors Without Borders, this book spoke to my soul.
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“The best reason I have come up with for looking closely into Rwanda’s stories is that ignoring them makes me even more uncomfortable about existence and my place in it.” -We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch I read this book, and it changed things for me.  Anyone who has read this definitely message me so we can discuss it’s awesomeness/life.
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Shake Hands With the Devil: the Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romeo Dallaire no easy read, but it changed things for me
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