Paul Farmer changed the world for millions of people. Here, 14 of his friends and colleagues share their stories.
We knew we wanted to recognize Dr. Farmer, and yet how could we possibly ask just one writer to memorialize a man referred to as aand a living saint? We opted, instead, to put a call out to people who cared deeply about his life and legacy.
in Mirebalais. What neither of us expected was that everyone there thought I was his son. Paul, in his usual fashion, thought it would be funny to tell everyone – including the president of Haiti – that I was, in fact, his son. The joke would ultimately become reality. At that same moment, on a much larger scale, the world was anxious about the notion of providing expensive HIV treatment to a population that lacked access to food and clean water. Dr. Paul Farmer treated thousands with antiretroviral therapy and saved millions of lives, disregarding the popular advice from the medical community.
We were once driving to meet then Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf. I forgot to turn off my phone and it started ringing. He said, “Kamara is that your phone? I need that ring tone!” In all, we stood there, hugging, on a Washington, D.C. street for at least 45 seconds. I had no idea what to do, feeling that I couldn't stop hugging Paul Farmer — but also feeling like I had been hugging him too long. When he realized how long it had been, and how concerned I was about the issues I was facing in my career, he simply said to me,"You know it's all going to be okay, right?" Then he got into the car and went to his next meeting.
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