| From "Marvelous Momentum" to Health Care for All
Farmer, Paul
Foreign Affairs, March-April 2007, v86, #2, pp155-159
The author comments on a recent article by Laurie Garrett on global health challenges. (See: infoalert.usembassy.de/01-07/h4.htm)
Garrett laid out the “perils” associated with the momentum that an influx of AIDS money has drawn away from addressing other health problems of the poor. While the author does not dispute this “disproportionate use of scarce health-care resources” but maintains that this new enthusiasm about global health can indeed be translated into efforts to close the widening "outcome gap" between rich and poor. Paul Farmer is an attending physician in infectious diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School. He is a Founding Director of Partners In Health, an international charity that provides health care to and undertakes research and advocacy on behalf of the sick and poor.
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