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- He described giving antibiotics to an impoverished tb patient, then wrote: "When she received them, she soon began to respond—almost as if she had a treatable infectious disease."†
Chpt 1.2impoverished = poor, or (more rarely) made poor
- And here, in one of the most impoverished, diseased, eroded, and famished regions of Haiti, there was this lovely walled citadel, Zanmi Lasante.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- No one else, not at this time, is treating impoverished Haitians with the new antiretroviral drugs.†
Chpt 1.3
- Look through it and you'd begin to see all the world's impoverished in their billions and the many linked causes of their misery.†
Chpt 1.4
- Virchow found a region impoverished by absentee landlordism, where the people, mainly Polish, lived principally on potatoes and vodka and suffered from endemic malaria and dysentery.†
Chpt 2.6
- He and his wife had also helped to build schools and to organize community councils and women's groups and programs for adult literacy in several small, impoverished towns in the region.†
Chpt 2.8
- The Marxists Farmer had read, and many of the intellectuals he knew, disdained religion, and it was true that some versions of Christianity, and more than a few missionaries, invited impoverished Haitians into what Père Lafontant called "the cult of resignation," into accepting their lot patiently, anticipating the afterlife.†
Chpt 2.8
- To many people in public health, such an array of projects would have seemed ambitious enough, indeed too much to hope for in a place as impoverished as Cange.†
Chpt 2.9
- Nor were uprisings among the impoverished majority.†
Chpt 2.11
- They supported, with small sums and advice, a few public health projects in far-flung places, such as Chiapas in Mexico, and their research branch, dedicated to criticizing the status quo in international health, was assembling a book about the special worldwide vulnerability of impoverished women to AIDS.†
Chpt 2.12
- Various leaders in Carabayllo asked Socios to build a pharmacy, which would dispense free medicine to the most impoverished people in the slum.†
Chpt 3.14
- "Oh, sure," one nurse had replied, and had proceeded to introduce him to an impoverished woman from Carabayllo named Señora Brigida.†
Chpt 3.14
- Most of the patients in Carabayllo would be impoverished.†
Chpt 3.16
- Farmer knew that a lot of his audience didn't believe one should treat mdr in an impoverished locale: treatment was too expensive and difficult in such a setting, and treating it was probably unnecessary, because mdr wasn't as contagious or virulent as regular tb and would likely die out in the face of a good dots program.†
Chpt 3.16
- The man who railed about the plight of impoverished women everywhere would in private, poking fun, employ terms like "chicks."†
Chpt 4.22
- If they tried to do too much and projects faltered, there would be no end of people pointing out the failures, saying they'd shown that mdr and AIDS could not be treated in impoverished settings.†
Chpt 5.24
- The aim of that trip was to persuade pih's tiny Mexican outpost to expand their public health efforts in the troubled, impoverished villages of Chiapas—an effort which, if successful, would oblige Farmer and Ophelia and Jim to do more fund-raising.†
Chpt 5.24
- Other small AIDS-treatment and —prevention programs were under way in poor countries, but Zanmi Lasante's was the only one in an impoverished rural area that chose its patients solely on medical grounds and not on their ability to pay, the only one that provided expert care and treatment for free.†
Chpt 5.24
- Impoverished peasant families had nowhere to go but Cange.†
Chpt 5.24
- Some prominent voices, some in the U.S. government, still argued that AIDS could not be treated in desperately impoverished places.†
Chpt Aft.
Definitions:
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(1)
(impoverish) make someone poorer; or make something less valuable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)