Skip to content

Aids Quote by Kofi Annan

“HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue.” quote by Kofi Annan — Download Open image

“HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Aids Cybersecurity Development Health Health issues Hiv Hiv aids Issues Security

More by Kofi Annan

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

Image

UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former…

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue…

Image

You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had…

Image

A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only…

Image

Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack…

Image

Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit…

Image

In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors…

We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough…

Image

The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What…

Image

I laugh a lot inside and outside, and at myself sometimes.

Image

Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the…

Image

Explore all 366 Kofi Annan quotes

More Aids quotes

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

Benjamin Franklin

Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's…

Image

I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.

Linda Evangelista

Image

If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous. But when you add on our private contributions - see, our tax system encourages private citizens to donate to organisations that, for example, help the folks in Africa. And when you take the combined effort of…

My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of…

Charlotte Bronte

I donated blood today. That's what I call getting an AIDS test.

Image

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to…

Lysander Spooner

Image

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot.…

Image

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for…

Benjamin Disraeli

Image

Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man who will…

Image

It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans in Uganda, the refugee fleeing Zimbabwe, the young woman who has been trafficked into the sex trade in Southeast Asia. It has been hard, yet this assistance together with the compassionate work of private charities, people…

Condoleezza Rice

At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now,…

Slobodan Milosević

Image

Browse all 1,838 Aids quotes