Table of Contents

Foreword by Paul Farmer
Acknowledgments
1. Daniel
2. Birth of a Partnership
3. "We All Need to Be Doing More"
4. "Seldom Has History Offered a Greater Opportunity"
5. "We Are Not a Mortuary"
6. Can Foreign Aid Work?
7. The Power of the Academic Health Center
8. AMPATH in Action
9. Moving Upstream
Epilogue
Index

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About the Author

Fran Quigley is Director of Operations and Development for the IU–Kenya Partnership at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. He is a lawyer and contributing columnist for the Indianapolis Star and other publications. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Paul Farmer is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a founding director of Partners In Health. Farmer has written extensively about health, human rights, and the role of social inequalities in the distribution and outcome of infectious diseases. His work is the subject of Tracy Kidder's book Mountains Beyond Mountains.

Reviews

"Presents compelling evidence to counter the argument that people in the developing world cannot change their behaviour and incorporate drug therapy into their daily lives." Jeanette Dickerson-Putman, co-editor of Polling the Right Threads "Provides an important story and critical lessons that can actually lead to the stabilization and control of the AIDS pandemic in the world, while saving millions of lives in the process." Robert Aponte, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis