David Furnish Quotes

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.

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

You can’t have a campaign against AIDS that emphasizes global abstinence.

See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.

You have to get the balance right, especially with public health, so that you take the measures that benefit the public's health but without causing people to resent you so that you actually don't cure the ill that you seek to cure.

I truly believe that, together, we can create a healthier world.

It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.

The GAVI Alliance has achieved many things in its first dozen years, but none more important than helping save more than 5.5 million lives and prevent untold illness and suffering.

Making sure that people have access to preventive medicine for the first time ever as a nation? That's a big deal.

Over the years, I have worked on programs in Africa and around the globe to combat malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV. I have been witness to incredible progress in these fights.

I think we need more community health programs and we need to develop programs that are low-cost.

As Miss World 2017, and even later in life, I'd like to take health and hygiene to everybody.

We can no longer remain within our exam rooms and ignore what happens in our communities. As physicians and dentists, we must have a presence in both places. Our sacred responsibility is both to help the patient in front of us and also to safeguard the health of the nation.

Health is both the foundation of my academic and professional careers and a personal passion. I know first-hand the important role health security plays in protecting lives and preventing the spread of disease.

In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.

Vaccination and other essential preventive services must be delivered close within communities.

Surgeon generals are appointed by presidents, but our work isn't about politics. Our highest duty to to the public. Our true guide is science. Our job is to speak the truth about public health, even when it's controversial or perceived as political.

The fight against HIV/AIDS cannot be won unless countries take ownership of protecting and supporting the health of communities both near and far.