A Path Out of Poverty
by Paul Farmer
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"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." ?Lilla Watson, Aboriginal activist and artist World-renowned physician and public health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer has long been devoted to caring and advocating for the world's poorest people, and challenging wealthy Western countries to address the underlying causes of poverty and disease in the developing world. He and the organization he cofounded, Partners In Health, have built medical centers and health systems first in Haiti and then around the world?in Rwanda, Mexico, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Russia, the U.S. and more?that also address patients' social, nutritional, financial, and long-term care needs. But as he and his colleagues have learned in assessing their own efforts, and indeed all efforts, to turn goodwill into a robust and enduring response to the profound problems of structural poverty, they have learned that
