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I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

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The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

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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 your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

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I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

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I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

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Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

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The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

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Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

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Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: October 26th, 1959

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