Chapters 13-15

Chapter 13
1. Adventurous doctors
2. TB devours the lungs, other organs, and sometimes bones. There are many good first line drugs that are used to treat TB over a span of around eight months. Many times these drugs are inaccessible to/by poor people, like the people of Haiti, because they are too expensive and the pharmaceuticals aren't willing to find cheaper ways.

Chapter 14
1. At first Farmer wasn't too enthusiastic, but after a while, Jim convinced him, and then Farmer did everything he could to help out there.
2. The TB cases in Peru were mostly multi-drug resistant (MDR) and therefore couldn't be cured by the DOTS program. The TB cases in Haiti could almost all be treated, and cured, by the DOTS program.

Chapter 15
1. Farmer supports the philosophy of WHO but not all of their methods. He applauds them on their DOTS program, because it has been successful in many parts of the world, like Africa and Haiti for instance. However, he doesn't like their reluctance to admit their are other ways to treat some types of TB, like the cases in Peru, and wishes they would work to find another program. Quadri agrees with Farmer. Angie agrees with their philosophy and many of their methods, but thinks that pride gets in the way of finding new treatments, and plans.
2. Treating people with MDR with the wrong drugs, the ones they are resistant to, causes an "amplification" to their TB. That's what was going on with the DOTS program in Peru.

By Quadri and Angie