Chapter 13

This chapter basically describes how AIDS and TB have affected Haiti and other countries like Peru because of their extreme poverty. At the beginning of the chapter the author describes what Farmer called the epidemiological map which represents the data from what makes people sick and what kills them based on their age. Based on the results Farmer believes that income does not affect health statistics but in which side of the map you are in and obviously the poor people are in the worst cases suffering from the worst diseases because the poor people get some treatment but not enough leading to a more crucial disease that cannot be cured for example multidrug resistant TB. This chapter is also important because as a cause of this disease Farmer lost someone close meaning that he will put extra effort trying to help people and cure the disease.