Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.
From Paul Farmer
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.
I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.
But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.
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.
The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
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