- Nov 07, 2020
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- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.
- Prove
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
- Health Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I'd seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Looking Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020