"I kind of knew that if I hung around with this guy, as a reporter, he's going to disturb my peace of mind. “He had a view of America that I just picked up little hints of," said Kidder. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World.” Kidder would capture a portrait of a man driven by the extreme inequity of the world around him in his 2003 biography “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Farmers, dispossessed by a hydroelectric dam built by Brown & Root of Texas.” "But here he was, spending most of his life and his, I dare say, you know, it was pretty clear that most of his passion was going to a job that looked pretty near impossible, and that would place him in living in a village in a really terribly disadvantaged community in Haiti that had been dispossessed. “It was pretty clear, here's this guy, once I knew a little bit more about him, who could have had a very cushy and quite an exalted career in infectious disease and just in medicine generally- And in anthropology as well, he already was a pretty accomplished figure and well known in those circles," Kidder told WAMC. That’s where Kidder met him in the 1990’s. He co-founded Partners In Health in 1987 after setting up a community-based health project for people with HIV and AIDS in rural Haiti. Farmer, born in North Adams, devoted his life to bringing healthcare to those most in need.
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