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“A Reflection of Growing Inequality”: Dr. Paul Farmer on the Deadly Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
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11:01Now PlayingAs the death toll from the West African Ebola outbreak nears 1,400, two American missionaries who received experimental drugs and topnotch healthcare have been released from the hospital. We spend the hour with Partners in Health cofounder Dr. Paul Farmer discussing what can be done to stop the epidemic and the need to build local healthcare capacity, not just an emergency response. “The Ebola outbreak, which is the largest in history that we know about, is merely a reflection of the public health crisis in Africa and it's about the lack of staff, stuff and systems that could protect populations, particularly those living in poverty, from outbreaks like this or other public health threats,” says Farmer, who has devoted his life to improving the health of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people. He is a professor at Harvard Medical School and currently serves as the special advisor to the United Nations on communitybased medicine. He has written several books including, “Infections and InequalitiesThe Modern Plagues.”
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