Paul Farmer, American physician and global health care pioneer, dies at 62
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Paul Farmer, an American physician and medical anthropologist renowned for his innovative work in providing health care to poorer countries, died Monday at age 62, his nonprofit group Partners in Health said.
The Boston-based organization said he "unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda."
Farmer's work on providing health care solutions to poorer countries brought him wide acclaim. A 2003 book profiling him, "Mountains Beyond Mountains," called him "the man who would cure the world."
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