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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.