Dr Paul Farmer, Partners in Health co-founder died.

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1. About Paul Farmer from author John Greene

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/21/how-paul-farmer-saved-millions-of-lives/

...News came on Monday of his sudden death, at age 62, in Rwanda. Paul was a father and a husband and a friend and a mentor to countless people. I was among them, and am devastated by his loss.

I don’t really believe in heroizing individuals, but Paul was, for me and for many, a hero. As a medical anthropologist and physician, he was deeply committed to the belief that all human lives had dignity and that every person deserves access to high-quality health care. He lived this belief for his entire career.

As a clinician, he often walked miles to make house calls to ill patients; as an advocate, he worked tirelessly to expand health-care access; and as an author, he wrote many invaluable books.

In 1999′s “Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues,” he explored how poverty drives infectious disease and ill health, especially multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDRTB, and HIV. “Opposition to the aggressive treatment of MDRTB in developing countries may be justified as ‘sensible’ or ‘pragmatic,’” he wrote, “but as a policy it is tantamount to the different valuation of human life, for those who advocate such a policy … would never accept such a death sentence themselves.”