Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death by Susan D. Moeller, Routledge, 1999.  Moeller discusses how sensational news coverage has dulled public sensitivity to global disasters and crises.

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder, Random House, 2003. The biography of Dr. Paul Farmer, a specialist in infectious diseases who founded a health center in Haiti and who successfully lobbied changes in treatment recommendations for drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Warrior Princess: Fighting for Life with Courage and Hope by Princess Kasune Zulu, InterVarsity Press, 2009. The true story of a Zambian woman whose parents were ripped from her by AIDS, Zulu speaks out about her HIV-positive status and the need for a change in Africa.