Health Disaster Quotes

Soon after joining the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia, I was called upon as part of team to respond to a malaria outbreak. My team was dispatched to a village in southwestern Ethiopia, where I not only observed the malaria epidemic's shocking effects on adults and children but also experienced it first-hand.

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

No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.

Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party.

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.

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

The Ebola virus is unlike any health crisis we have ever experienced and needs a response unlike anything we have ever seen.

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

We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.