Mangosuthu Buthelezi Quotes

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

I thought, wait and see—maybe it [AIDS] is not as hot as some are making it appear. I definitely admit to a gross underestimate. We're running scared.

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

I remember specifically, in the summer of 2002, the rate of women infected with HIV/AIDS was beginning to match the rate of men, and nobody was talking about it. It was as if it was on nobody else's radar. I had made up my mind to do something about it.

Pandemics happen. When they do, they change the world.

The Ebola epidemic is the worst health emergency there has been in modern times.

Soon after joining the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia, I was called upon as part of team to respond to a malaria outbreak. My team was dispatched to a village in southwestern Ethiopia, where I not only observed the malaria epidemic's shocking effects on adults and children but also experienced it first-hand.

History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world responded, or rather failed to respond, to the epidemic.

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

The fight against Ebola cannot undermine the fight against poverty.

Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges.

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

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

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.