Updated at 9:21 a.m., Saturday, February 17, 2007
World AIDS expert to give lecture at UH
Advertiser Staff
World AIDS expert Paul Farmer will present a lecture, "AIDS in 2007: Building a Health Care Movement," from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. Tuesday at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa Campus Center Ballroom.
Farmer helped found the international health organization Partners in Health in 1987, starting with a charity clinic in Haiti.
It has become a worldwide health organization in five other countries, focusing on helping areas suffering from poverty, violence, and epidemics of disease, and obtaining effective drugs to treat HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
Farmer, an infectious-disease specialist and professor of medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School, is the winner of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Margaret Mead Award for his contributions to public anthropology.
He is visiting Honolulu as Pfizer/American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation Visiting Professor at the John A. Burns School of Medicine's Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
