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. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
