Today we launched a "Global Dialogue" interview which I conducted recently with Dr. Paul Farmer, director of the Clinique Bon Sauveur in Cange, Haiti (and Harvard professor in his free time). In it he discusses successes and failures of AIDS efforts in Haiti, and how lessons might apply elsewhere. He is particularly passionate about the necessity of integrating prevention and care efforts.

Paul, for those of you not familiar with him, represents astounding scholarship and indefatigable efforts on behalf of the poor, all nicely catalogued in the recent bestseller "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World". His successes in Cange make it impossible for policymakers to say "it can't be done". Even as a med student (where, incidentally, we were classmates -- although he spent much of his time in Haiti!), he already was proving what progress on health was possible in the most difficult of environments. He probably needs to clone a few more of himself to stay intact (or at least share more of his experiences online...).