At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money