First we want to ask, do you want to DONATE or INVEST to help get these paks to the 10 worst-off countries?

Making a pak for remote health workers in Africa, Asia and Latin America requires thinking outside a typical health kit, because some solutions to life-threatening issues lie outside the medical field . In many low-resource settings, drugs and medical personnel are in short supply, but so are key things like light and power.

One of the most insidious conflicts in international health is the tension between providing realistic solutions based on available resources (sometimes called 'appropriate technologies') and the sentiment expressed to Paul Farmer by a Haitian priest: “Do you know what “appropriate technology” means? It means good things for rich people and shit for the poor” (Infections and Inequalities, 21). There is a constant struggle between developing scalable technologies that will effectively improve health in low-income countries and falling into the trap of developing second-rate solutions for the world’s poor.