About Quote by Michael Specter

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the…

— Shereen El Feki

I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's…

— John Cameron Mitchell

My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas…

— Philip Emeagwali

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research…

— Jill Lepore

When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that…

— Morgan Fairchild

Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones.

— Sheri Fink

My first AIDS campaign was in 1985. There was this dark cloud, everybody was socially inspired - we hadn't seen social consciousness like that…

— Kenneth Cole

I read a newspaper article in May 1984 which predicted that syringes would one day be a major cause of the transmission of HIV.…

— Marc Koska

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical,…

— Iris Chang

Back from 2001 to 2003, I wrote multiple editorials for The Washington Post about biological warfare and pandemic preparedness - issues that were at…

— Anne Applebaum

By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times…

— Tom Wolfe