The amount of lives saved by the work of Dr. Paul Farmer, a person who dedicated his life to the goal of health equity, is incalculable. Below are just a few short clips of this, one of the founders of Partners in Health. Dr. Farmer passed away on February 21.

“Do we see [human disparity] as a human predicament--an inescapable result of frailty of our existence? That would be correct had these sufferings been really inescapable, but they are far from that. Preventable diseases can indeed be prevented, curable ailments can certainly be cured, and controllable maladies call out for control. Rather than lamenting the adversity of nature, we have to look for a better comprehension of the social cuases of horror and also of our tolerance of societal abominations.”
― Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor