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Boston (AFP) – Paul Farmer, an American physician and medical anthropologist renowned for his innovative work in providing health care to poorer countries, died Monday at age 62, his Partners in Health group said. The Boston-based organization said he “unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda.” Farmer’s work on providing healthcare solutions to poorer countries brought him wide acclaim. A 2003 book profiling him, “Mountains Beyond Mountains,” called him “the man who would cure the world.” Samantha Power, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, tweeted that Farmer was…