“Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.” HeartJobsTurnsDoorsBabyDiseasePrisonTrainHungerCancerAccidentsSocialismWelcomeCommunismPlanesBombsInjuryChickensBusAtomsCrashFloodUnemploymentAlcoholismWrecksEarthquakesDroughtHeart DiseaseMalariaAtom BombSmallpoxPlane CrashesPoxTrain WrecksWhooping Cough Author:Naz?m Hikmet
“Poverty - the greatest cause of human suffering on the planet - is itself exacerbated by conflict, competition for resources, injustice, even the global downturn and climate change. Diseases like AIDS, TB and malaria cannot be tackled without adequate resources. So you see everything is connected. In order to address any major cause of human suffering, we have to work together across many fronts.” HumansTogetherSufferingOrderCausesPovertyFrontsPlanetsConflictDiseaseMajorsResourcesCompetitionClimateClimate ChangeInjusticeConnectedAidsAddressesWorking TogetherAdequateHuman SufferingMalariaDownturnEconomic Downturn Author:Desmond Tutu
“The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.” BelieveCountryHelpingFightingI BelievePlayerProgressDiseaseResourcesImpactI Believe InFundHivMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.” WantGivingDreamStrangeDiseaseMalariaStrange Dreams Author:Bill Gates
“The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.” WorldYearsChildrenHas BeensDoneWholeImpossibleDiseaseKillingPopulationHarmParasitesMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.” WorldYearsFirstsDoneBigsBornDiseaseAreasProgramToolsDecadesGet It DoneTropicalMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation and they got infected with malaria, and partly cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.” PeopleWarCausesMilitaryFieldsHigherDiseaseTrainingDown AndRateBoardsCokeAtlantaRecruitMalariaPlantationsFatality Author:Bill Gates
“There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.” PeopleDyingDiseaseCancerMalariaPeople Dying Author:Bill Gates
“[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.” PeopleMillionsCenturyDiseaseAncientMalariaTaming Author:Margaret Chan
“I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.” ThinkingDoneProblemInvolvedDiseaseFoundationStartingCancerFinishingMalariaPolioSolved ProblemsInfectious DiseasesStarting Up Author:Bill Gates
“I do not argue that nature is sacrosanct in the sense that we must never tamper with nature. That would disempower, really, all of medicine. That would mean that we can't combat dread diseases - malaria, polio, all of which are given by nature, if one thinks about it.” IfsThinkingMeanGivenDiseaseMedicineArguingCombatDreadMalariaPolio Author:Michael Sandel
“The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, has traditionally been unable to survive at altitudes higher than 1,000 meters because of colder temperatures there. But with recent warming trends, those mosquitoes have now been reported at 1,240 meters in Costa Rica and at 2,200 meters in Columbia. Malaria-bearing mosquitoes, too, have moved to higher elevations in central Africa, Asia, and parts of Latin America, triggering new outbreaks of the disease.” AmericaHigherDiseaseMovedSpreadGlobal WarmingLatinTrendsYellowAsiaTemperatureFeverLatin AmericaMeterElevationColumbiaMosquitoesMalariaOutbreaksCosta RicaYellow Fever Author:Ross Gelbspan
“If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.” PeopleIfsWholeHelpingProgressPlansGroupsTypeDiseaseComputerModelsMedicineInsightMathDrivenInstituteComputer ScienceSeattleMalariaModellingPolio Author:Bill Gates
“Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.” YearsChildrenCommunityDiseaseAidsRadarMalariaMeaslesPneumoniaGlobal Health Author:Mandy Moore
“That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.” ProblemEnergyEnvironmentDiseaseBiggerClimateClimate ChangeAidsFluPublic HealthMalariaPandemicsHealth ProblemsHeat Wave Author:Lois Capps