Paul Farmer Haiti Quotations

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.

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

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.

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.

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.

Well, we've worked with our friends in Haiti to establish nothing short of a modern medical center in one of the poorest parts of that country.

It would be great if people would acknowledge that the state of Haiti was because of the resources we took away.

It was apparent from the early 80s that in order to do something lasting and significant in Haiti we would need a springboard in the States.