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Paul Farmer, Pioneer of Global Health, Dies at 62<br />
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As a medical student, Dr. Farmer decided to build a clinic in Haiti. It grew into a vast network<br />
serving some of the world’s poorest communities.<br />
Paul Farmer, a physician, anthropologist and humanitarian who gained global acclaim for his work<br />
delivering high-quality health care to some of the world’s poorest people, died on Monday on the<br />
grounds of a hospital and university he had helped establish in Butaro, Rwanda. He was 62.<br />
The cause was an “acute cardiac event,” according to a statement by Partners in Health, the<br />
global public health organization that Dr. Farmer helped found.<br />
Dr. Farmer attracted public renown with “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer,<br />
a Man Who Would Cure the World,” a 2003 book by Tracy Kidder that described the extraordinary<br />
efforts he would make to care for patients, sometimes walking hours to their homes to ensure they<br />
were taking their medication.<br />
He was a practitioner of “social medicine,” arguing there was no point in treating patients for<br />
diseases only to send them back into the desperate circumstances that contributed to them in the<br />
first place. Illness, he said, has social roots and must be addressed through social structures.<br />
His work with Partners in Health significantly influenced public health strategies for responding to<br />
tuberculosis, H.I.V. and Ebola. During the AIDS crisis in Haiti, he went door to door to deliver antiviral<br />
medication, confounding many in the medical field who believed it would be impossible for poor<br />
rural people to survive the disease.<br />
Though he worked in the world of development, he often took a critical view of international aid,<br />
preferring to work with local providers and leaders. And he often lived among the people he was<br />
treating, moving his family to Rwanda and Haiti for extended periods.<br />
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