1. Molly Caldwe Crosby, The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History (New York: Berkley Books, 2007).
2. Report for the World Health Organization;African Religious Health Assets Programme,2006
3. See Southern Africa AIDS Training Programme & the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, CBO/NGO Support: The Role and Value of NGO Based CBO/NGO Support Providers in the Response to HIV/AIDS in Southern and Eastern Africa: A Case study of CHEP, The SHARE Series (Harare: SAT/International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2004).
4. On the vital role of grassroots intermediary organizations, see Thomas F. Carroll, Intermediary NGOs: The Supporting Link in Grassroots Development, Library of Management for Development (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1992);
5. James R. Cochrane, “Trustworthy Intermediaries: Role of Religious Agents on the Boundaries of Public Health,” in When Religion and Health Align: Mobilising Religious Health Assetsfor Transformation, ed. James R. Cochrane, Barbara Schmid, and Teresa Cutts (Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications, 2011), 150–63.