Luc Montagnier Quotes

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.

We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.

Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

HIV AIDS is a preventable disease and should never be a source of shame!

The reduction of the death rate is the principal statistical expression and index of human social progress.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.

AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease.