Bill Gates Quotes

Fire management resembles public health. There is ample money and will for response when the crisis is at hand, But little for the patient labor of prevention, vaccinations, and general wellness. Worse the costs of emergencies is stripping away all resources for everything else.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

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.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

Contagious and infectious diseases have been largely overcome.

As cities get bigger, our best defence will be to prevent outbreaks in the first place by building better public health systems, improving childhood immunisation through better routine immunisation and pre-emptive vaccination campaigns.

Ebola so scary and so unfamiliar, it's really important to outline what the facts are and that we know how to control it. We control it by traditional public health measures. We do that, and Ebola goes away.

Strong health and disease surveillance systems halt epidemics that take lives, disrupt economies, and pose global health security threats.

Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.

The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending.

I don’t think I’d set money above public health. I place them all at the highest ranking.

If we can afford large sums of money or other such things as horseracing, and motion picture films, and we do—I'm not arguing against them—then I say we ought to have sufficient sense of values to say that health is more important than these things, and if we can find money for relatively non-essential things, we can find the money to give our people good health.

Hygiene is two thirds of health.

When to prevent? When to adapt?" Noting that prevention tends to cost more and favors elites, while adaptation costs less and favors the average person…

It costs money to stay healthy, but it’s even more expensive to get sick.

Throwing money after security turns out to be a classic example of the law of diminishing marginal utility.

We feel that we can do a great deal of good. We want to eliminate malaria in this generation.

Smallpox is the only human infectious disease ever eradicated by science.