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Paul Farmer
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"If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it’s hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies."
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Paul Farmer
Topic(s):
Positive
"Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn’t have them anywhere else."
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Paul Farmer
Topic(s):
Medical
"I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn’t be such a big deal."
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Paul Farmer
Topic(s):
Medical
"Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can’t get medical care or clean water."
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Paul Farmer
Topic(s):
Medical
"It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care."
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Paul Farmer
Topic(s):
Imagination
"You can’t have public health without a public health system. We just don’t want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system."
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Paul Farmer
Topic(s):
Health
"If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti – and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera… which can spread like wildfire in Haiti… This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti."
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Paul Farmer
Topic(s):
Health
"We’ve taken on the major health problems of the poorest – tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria – in four countries. We’ve scored some victories in the sense that we’ve cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible."
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Paul Farmer
Topic(s):
Health
"So I can’t show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable."
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Paul Farmer
Topic(s):
Health
"The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they’re major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems."
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Paul Farmer
Topic(s):
Health
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