Poverty - Scott J. Pearson’s Book Review

Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa

By Scott J. Pearson | October 16, 2021October 16, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

One of the biggest accolades often put on George W. Bush’s US presidency is addressing the AIDS pandemic in Africa. That required an international effort, and Stephen Lewis, a former Canadian ambassador and UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, details how that effort fell short on many fronts. He calls out contradictions between the aims and implementation of US policy. In so doing, he exposes how both the US and the UN become embroiled…

Humanities Poverty

Haiti, After the Earthquake

By Scott J. Pearson | October 1, 2018 by Scott J. Pearson

by Paul FarmerCopyright (c) 2012.Audiobook version. In January 2010, Haiti experienced a seven-point earthquake that laid waste to an already-struggling infrastructure. The world, for a few moments, paused and sighed a collective, compassionate sigh towards one of the oldest republics in the Western Hemisphere. Paul Farmer, known for starting Partners in Health and for being deputy ambassador to Haiti from the UN under Bill Clinton, composed this book about his experiences soon after the earthquake.…

Healthcare Poverty

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

By Scott J. Pearson | September 9, 2018 by Scott J. Pearson

by Paul Farmer Copyright (c) 2001. Paul Farmer is a genius and is worthy of reading by anyone interested in his field of medical anthropology. An MD/PhD professor of Harvard and founder of Partners in Health, Farmer, perhaps better than anyone else alive, embodies the ethic that health care is a human right. In this book, he writes on his experiences in Haiti. He writes of fighting AIDS and Tuberculosis. He points out that poverty…