If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

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

People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

Equity is the only acceptable goal

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.