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• At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

  Paul Farmer

  Challenges, Different, Hiv

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• Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

  Paul Farmer

  People, Development, Haiti

  "Paul Farmer Examines Haiti 'After The Earthquake'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 11, 2011.

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• 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.

  Paul Farmer

  Organization, Imagination, Adequate

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• Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality supportive care are followed, the case fatality rate for Ebola may be lower than 20 percent.

  Paul Farmer

  Medicine, Ebola, Supportive

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• Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

  Paul Farmer

  Should, Access, Primaries

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• 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.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Talking, Earthquakes

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• 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.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Should Have, Retrospect

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• I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

  Paul Farmer

  Views, Ideas, Would Be

  Paul Farmer, Haun Saussy (2010). “Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader”, p.571, Univ of California Press

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• The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

  Paul Farmer

  Rights, Ends, Should

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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.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Support, Looks

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• But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

  Paul Farmer

  Thinking, Parent, Causes

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