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Paul Farmer founded country’s global health equity university and helped its post-war rebuild
The death of Paul Farmer, a United States doctor and anthropologist, in Rwanda earlier this week has dismayed politicians and health professionals in the country.
Farmer (pictured, left) devoted his professional life to promoting poor people’s right to healthcare. He founded the Boston-based nonprofit Partners In Health in 1987. PIH has worked in Haiti, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, the Navajo Nation, Peru, Russia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
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