This weekend, I visited the city of Huaraz and its surroundings with my friend Brian. Huaraz is in the northern sierra of Peru, at nearly 10,000 feet of altitude. It is famous for being in the midst of the Callejón de Huaylas, a valley formed between two large mountain ranges, (1) the Cordillera Blanca and [...]
A few years ago, I read Paul Farmer’s book Infections and Inequalities (1999). Farmer is one of the founders of Partners In Health (PIH), which is the umbrella institution encompassing Socios and Salud, where I currently work. (Socios En Salud is the translation of Partners In Health into Spanish.)
Although Farmer is better known in the [...]