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

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

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

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.

Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.

Equity is the only acceptable goal

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