Chapter 19: Second line TB drugs are those drugs that were used in replacement of the drugs WHO used to cure MDR. These drugs before the intervention of Jim were sold for very high prices because they were produced by very few manufactures so they pretty much could predict the price of the drug they produced. Jim tried to stop it by compelling a lot of manufactures to produce these drugs inorder to create competition in the market and then get WHO to add second line TB drugs to their list. After he suceeded in doing this, the prices of the drugs went down, consequently, the drug was available to the poor for very low prices.
Jim and paul's interest in second line drugs was to reduce the price thereby making it affordable by the poor because they believed these drugs were the cure for MDR which was a very prominent disease in the poor nations.
Chapter 20: Farmer usually felt relunctant to fly to Haiti because the book said he kept looking back at haiti when he was on the plane, and while on the plane he would look back at the structure of Haiti and find out that it was pretty much over populated.
Chapter 21: The Cuban health system distributed drugs very equaaly amongst its people, drugs were at fairly low prices which were accessible by the poor and therefore reduced diseases but in Haiti, drugs weren't fairly distributed and were at high prices leading to inaccessibility and spread of diseases.
Cuban health system had a lot of very well trained doctors but Haiti's hardly had any doctors at all.
By Quadri & Angie.
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