Access Quote by Dikembe Mutombo

Our population is growing rapidly because of our good health policy. When I came into office, there were 14 million Ugandans, today there are…

— Yoweri Museveni

Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations.

— Lynn Nottage

Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially…

— William Schaffner

The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countries are in dire situation in terms…

— Margaret Chan

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of care,

— Fidel Castro

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

— Nelson Mandela

There aren't enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don't do it for the money or because they want to…

— Alexandra Fuller

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

— Adelle Davis

Too often we learn everything about how an African dies, but nothing about how he lives. But they learn and live and love and…

— Henning Mankell

There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its…

— Paul Kagame

If I had not played basketball and made the millions of dollars that I had made, I would never have been able to build…

— Dikembe Mutombo

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

— Liya Kebede