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09 June 2005

''I challenge people to come up with another disease so tied to poverty".
The story of Father Thomas G. Streit, Roman Catholic priest and biologist at the University of Notre Dame, head of the Haiti Project to eradicate lymphatic filariasis (with an annual per-capita income of $425, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere)

post by: matteo at: 15:02 | 3 comments

An estimated 120 million people in some 80 countries worldwide are infected with the parasite that causes the illness. As many as a quarter of Haiti's 8.3 million people carry the parasitic disease, and hundreds of thousands will develop its crippling symptoms

posted by matteo 09 June | 15:03

The key to understanding public health is the distinction between clinical medicine (which treats health as an economic commodity driven by scarcities) and public health (which treats well-being as something that exists either universally or not at all.)

posted by warbaby 09 June | 16:56

the key to understanding how bad it is in Haiti is to see how bad they've had it, and yet this is considered bad
/cranky and possibly a bit tipsy, so no links

posted by ethylene 11 June | 00:43

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