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.
There's so much stigma around HIVAIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status find it very, very hard to disclose their status, to live with that virus, and to even seek out the kind of information they need. This experience of going to South Africa a decade ago really woke me up to the scale of the HIVAIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, how it was affecting women and their children. I haven't been able to walk away from it.
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.
The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic.
Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year.
After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.
I believe capitalism is dying a slow death right now, as you can see with the recession and with the credit crunch and with social and economic dismay the world as whole and the pandemic of promiscuity, drugs, alcohol and all the other diseases. That's the worst and I believe it's time for a change.
That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.
Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
