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...Farmer also criticized the United States for its economic embargoes on several countries in need of public health assistance, making the delivery of medical technology difficult...
...Farmer, who has spent much of his life working in Haiti, the country with the lowest per capita income in the Western Hemisphere, was accompanied by several Haitian guests and littered his speech with anecdotes and slides to show the human dimensions of fighting infectious disease...
...need to know the data, but it really doesn’t tell us anything about the Haitian people, or the history of what’s happened between our two countries.,” Farmer said. “Haiti and the U.S.…have the most intertwined histories of any two countries in this hemisphere. HIV came to Haiti from America...
...Haiti, which has the highest incidence of HIV infection in the Western Hemisphere, PIH was able to introduce medicine to treat the epidemic. Farmer said this effort proved successful in over 86 percent of blood samples sent to Boston for testing...
...were under so much pressure to show that it was effective,” Farmer said. “The patients on therapy didn’t die. We have to get better and faster at testing those patients who need [medication] immediately...