251 Quotes About Aids

In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

The AIDS virus is not more powerful than God.

Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.

It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.

I've seen the way AIDS is tearing so many young lives apart, but I've also seen people fighting back -- spreading the word about prevention, looking after orphans, supporting each other.

There's been no official statement about blood transfusions or the blood products-related AIDS epidemic.

Our Pakistan elites are spoiled by permanent foreign aid and therefore find it difficult to change course. Pakistan needs someone who stands up and says: Fundamentalism is bad, capitalism is good. This region harbors enormous potential. Pakistan could become the hub for the energy that is transported from Central Asia to South Asia. That could change the whole region.