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Paul Farmer and Partners in Health “have shown the world that it is possible to control diseases and to redress some of the underlying causes that have turned them into pandemics.”

Paul Farmer and Partners in Health “have shown the world that it is possible to control diseases and to redress some of the underlying causes that have turned them into pandemics,” writes Tracy Kidder. “But what they have done above all, I think, is to present both a rebuke and a challenge to the United States and the other wealthy countries and to offer all of us a real kind of hope, hope backed up by fact.”


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