Annie Lennox Quotes

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath.

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.

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

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

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

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.

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.

AIDS didn’t announce itself when it arrived, and it was only after it started taking its toll that we realized our problem.

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

I'm tired of being behind this virus. We've been behind this virus from day one. We underestimated this virus. It's more powerful, it's more dangerous than we expected.

I believe UNAIDS' provocative leadership has been critical in addressing the AIDS epidemic and converting it from a death sentence to a chronic health condition.

The world is sick.

AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.

Watching AIDS play its evil game of give and take has made me understand why lobbying for increased research funding should be an urgent priority - not only for the gay community but for us all.

Since the first large Zika outbreak ever recognized, in 2007, the CDC has had boots on the ground responding. Our laboratories have developed a test that can confirm Zika in the first week of illness or in a sample from an affected child.

The difference is that with Ebola, it is such a devastating disease, and there is still no cure. They're still working on vaccines. The fact of the matter with polio, there is a cure; there is a vaccine.

A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.