The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

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

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

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.