Kenneth Kaunda Quotes

AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

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

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

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

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

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.

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.

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

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

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

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.

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.

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.

Humankind is no stranger to calamitous outbreaks of diseases.

We grew up in an era where there was a lot of fear of HIV. Everybody worried about it and everybody took precautions, and everybody knew that it was a thing that was out there. As it slowed down, it left the spotlight, people forgot.

Of course when you look back from all the pandemics that have happened in the world, they were really scary.

Ebola is a horrific disease.

I knew the HIV virus was something anyone could get but also believed the chances were very slim... I honestly believed I had a better chance of winning the lottery than contracting this disease. I have never been so wrong in my life.