Dr Paul Farmer, healthcare advocate for some of world’s poorest, dies aged 62

Farmer defied skeptics to create healthcare systems for the most vulnerable in places like Haiti, Rwanda and Peru.

Dr Paul Farmer, a physician, humanitarian and author renowned for providing healthcare to millions of impoverished people worldwide and who co-founded the global non-profit Partners in Health, has died. He was 62.

The Boston-based organization confirmed Farmer's death on Monday, calling it devastating" and noting he unexpectedly died in his sleep from an acute cardiac event while in Rwanda, where he had been teaching.