The mission of the National-Tay Sachs & Allied Diseases Association is to lead the fight to treat and cure Tay-Sachs, Canavan and related genetic diseases and to support affected families and individuals in leading fuller lives.
In a new book, ''Pathologies of Power'' (University of California), Dr. Farmer, who has worked and lived in Haiti for the past 20 years, criticizes human rights advocates and bioethicists for giving short shrift to the health problems of the poor.
I. Nikolova, and G. Angelova. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2011), volume 6828 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 173-186. Springer, (2011)