Epidemic Quote by Shereen El Feki Download Open image “Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.” — Shereen El Feki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Epidemic Epidemics Fuel Greatest Hiv Living People Risk Those Where You
There are laws that only apply to people with HIV - we're becoming a viral underclass. — Sean Strub Copy Share Image
As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV. — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
If people are encouraged to come out and say they're HIV-positive and they're given their treatments, then obviously, the people who are marginalized -… — Elton John Copy Share Image
HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes. — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we treat them ourselves: as… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of HIV criminalization is so much more massive than people understand. — Sean Strub Copy Share Image
AIDS destroys families, decimates communities and, particularly in the poorest areas of the world, threatens to destabilize the social, cultural, and economic fabric of… — David Saperstein Copy Share Image
I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
Now people with HIV are no longer dying, but living many years - we are around longer to potentially affect others. — Sean Strub Copy Share Image
Some countries that I go to are still trying to deny that it's happening. In India, 2.1 million people are living with HIV AIDS.… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition? — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
In Egypt, where my research is focused, I have seen plenty of trouble in and out of the citadel. There are legions of young… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Growing up, I came to love Egypt and respect Islam, but I never thought to go beyond the surface. Back in Canada, many of… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fulla is the Arab world's answer to Barbie. Now, according to proponents of the clash of civilizations, Barbie and Fulla occupy these completely separate… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn’t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
“If the epidemic continues its mathematical rate of acceleration, civilization could easily disappear from the face of the earth.” —The Army Surgeon General, 1918” — Jacqueline Druga Copy Share Image
Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. — Kimberly Williams-Paisley Copy Share Image
War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue. — Sarah Brady Copy Share Image
One of my worries about America is the epidemic of depression we've been in. One of the possibilities about that is that the 'I'… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
“The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts,” none of them fits… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
“Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in three women… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image