Kofi Annan Quotes

HIV/AIDS is the greatest danger we have faced for many, many centuries. HIV/AIDS is worse than a war. It is like a world war. Millions of people are dying from it.

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

It's hard to imagine, but we cant think of HIV/AIDS as being somebody else's story. It could be any of ours.

The fight against HIV/AIDS requires leadership from all parts of government - and it needs to go right to the top. AIDS is far more than a health crisis. It is a threat to development itself.

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House, make no mistake about it.

When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV.

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

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

To tell you the truth, I'm shocked, as I travel across this country, at how little people know or don't want to know about HIV/AIDS. There are a lot of people who don't know that HIV is one thing and AIDS is another. Those people just think it's one big old alphabet of a disease.

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

AIDS is a very, very, very vicious disease, particularly in the black community.

I want to be incredibly clear: The United States stands for a public health approach to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

A lot of people have forgotten the severity of this disease, of HIV. So I think it's important that we just talk about things like this: how we can prevent it, how we can make sure that people are safe, how they can move forward, too, if they do have HIV.

There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status find it very, very hard to disclose their status, to live with that virus, and to even seek out the kind of information they need. This experience of going to South Africa a decade ago really woke me up to the scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, how it was affecting women and their children. I haven't been able to walk away from it.

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

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.

To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn't require a visa.

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

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

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.

It will be impossible for us to eradicate HIV as long as any corner of the world is cut off from the education and services that we know helps stop the spread of this disease.

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.

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.

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