"Ebola has not yet come into contact with……" — Paul Farmer
"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."
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56 Quotes by Paul Farmer
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lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should…
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...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.
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People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great…
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I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those…
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Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.
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At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges…
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I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.
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I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.
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I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused…
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The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when…
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The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
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What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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