Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year. — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
I've had to confront a lot of pandemics and infectious diseases around the globe. — Deborah Birx Copy Share Image
After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic. — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
Of course when you look back from all the pandemics that have happened in the world, they were really scary. — Liza Soberano Copy Share Image
No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu. — Lois Capps Copy Share Image
As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics. — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity. — Barbara Lee Copy Share Image
“the global bonfire of fossil fuels will heighten the likelihood of pandemics on its own, in a way that is likely to… — Sonia Shah Copy Share Image
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from… — Julie Gerberding Copy Share Image
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
I've been interested in pandemics for decades. I even made a four-part series for Channel 4 UK and SBS called 'Invisible Enemies'… — Norman Swan Copy Share Image
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Young people were once considered relatively safe from HIV/AIDS. Today, their lives and futures are at risk throughout the world because of… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple… — John Green Copy Share Image
The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all… — David L. Katz Copy Share Image
In the southern countries and in the regions and continents like Africa, which is where the origin of life on earth began,… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance,… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy,… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
“Flu pandemics are nothing new. Medical historians think the first one struck in 1510, infecting Asia, Africa, Europe, and the New World.… — Albert Marrin Copy Share Image
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… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution. — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world. — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. ...… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
