Summary

As Chapter 10 opens, Nyamayaro visits Tbilisi, Georgia's capital city. She shares a meal with two women who discuss how limited access to healthcare has affected them and their families. Nyamayaro has completed a course of study at the London School of Economics and Political Science and now works as part of a small pharmaceutical policy team at the World Bank. The women share their grief with Nyamayaro--a woman named Ana has lost her sister in childbirth, and a woman named Elene has lost her three-month-old son who had a heart condition.

Unfortunately, health care disparities are common in western nations as well, especially in the United States. A young college student named Tina tells Nyamayaro that her mother went to the hospital for breathing problems associated with high blood pressure, but she was left to die on the floor because she did not...