Paul Farmer Quotes

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.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

There should be choice in healthcare.

Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's growing access problem.

The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.

When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease.

People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top.

I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.

I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements in the health of the people of Africa and the health of women are key indicators of the performance of WHO. This is a health organization for the whole world... But we must focus our attention on the people in greatest need.