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Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution. -- Margaret Chan
The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease. -- Stephen Lewis
From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges. -- Bernie Sanders
A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world. -- Anthony S. Fauci
After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic. -- Margaret Chan
Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected. -- Anthony Fauci
There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic. -- Billy Corgan
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia. -- Margaret Chan
Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic. -- Stephen Lewis
Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5. -- Margaret Chan
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet. -- Laurie Garrett
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour. -- Margaret Chan
When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV. -- Anthony Fauci
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. -- Bill Gates
If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us. -- Irwin Redlener
There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and medicines for more than half the world population. -- Laurie Garrett
For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care. -- Margaret Chan
If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them. -- Nathan Wolfe
Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns. -- Ban Ki-moon
It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself. -- Anthony Fauci
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism. -- Martin Filler
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. -- Barack Obama
I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it. -- Gloria Reuben
Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune. -- Nathan Wolfe
Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 million young children under the age of five every year because of malaria. We've already lost 25 million people to the pandemic of HIV-AIDS. More people are dying now from typhoid fever. Diabetes is on the rise. -- Dikembe Mutombo
Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely. -- David Kirschner
The real zombie-apocalypse is the pandemic of drama and mediocrity. -- Bryant McGill
You can't put a price tag on preparation for a pandemic. -- Richard E. Besser
A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world. -- Anthony S. Fauci
I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women -- Nicole Kidman
No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic. -- Colin Powell
That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu. -- Lois Capps
Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year. -- Gillian Anderson
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself. -- Anne, Queen of Great Britain
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
If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic,. -- Julie Gerberding
Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. ... Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command. -- Laurie Garrett
As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back. -- Richard Branson
We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS. -- Nelson Mandela

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