Socios En Salud Summary

This section of the reading focuses on Jim Kim’s life describing his aspirations and the development of Socios en Salud program in Peru. I liked the idea how his mother exposed him to the real issues around the world such as famine and war. Since his life was decent in America, it doesn’t mean that people around the world live in the same conditions and have the same opportunities. This experience motivated him to help others in need and sympathized with people in worse conditions than him. Both Farmer and Kim have the desire to cure patients in any way that they can. As one of the advocates a part of Farmer’s team, Kim created a program in Carabayllo called Socios en Salud, which is same version of Partners in Health. The program focuses on the effect of tuberculosis to poor people among developing nations. It affects these nations because people had a lack of access to medical resources, which causes many people to die. It was interesting that the patients were resistant to five treatments of TB. I thought that the health workers gave up on saving patients because the treatments were unable to work on them. Farmer and his team were determined to find a cure to TB, no matter how long it took. For instance, Paul Farmer and Jim Kim borrowed drugs …show more content…
The problems are ending world hunger, gender equality, universal health care. This website is good source for what an individual or organization can contribute to the assistance of others. There is still work being done, but this is an ongoing process that is being solved. It is important to be aware of how many people are in need. It is up to people that are in higher positions to help. This one of the most important factors to public health because promoting people to have healthy lifestyles with the help of organizations and trying to protecting people against unfair