Pediatricians

"Handguns are a public health issue."

"How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day […] You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash."

"We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education."

"As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else."

"If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones."

"We must stop this love affair with the fetus."

"I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted."

"If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life."

"I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse."

"Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms."

"They are boycotting common sense."

"We know that more than 70 to 80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie."

"If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper."

"Absolutely. You can do both. I feel that parents should educate their children about their sexuality and teach them the things they want them to know. But so often, what they're taught is what I was taught - to just say no. We have been taught abstinence only. We've been taught nothing about protection from diseases or anything. We've been taught nothing about contraception. And, you know, we say well, if we tell them about it, they'll do it. Well, if you've got the highest rates in the world, that says you're already doing it."

"I think that we need to look at health - sexual health - as a part of our overall health, and I don't feel that you can really be healthy unless you are sexually healthy. And I truly feel that we need to start educating our children about sex from kindergarten through 12th grade, so that they can respect their sexuality and protect their sexuality so that they can be - have sexual health throughout their lives. Other countries do it. Why do we have to have the highest teenage pregnancy, highest rates of STDs, the highest rates of HIV in our adolescents? It's because we feel that ignorance is bliss, and it's not bliss. We got to educate our young people."

""I grew up on a farm in a three-room shack. I was the oldest of eight children. We were very poor. We didn’t have running water. We didn’t have electricity, so we didn’t have TV or radio. No one had health care. There were no health facilities for miles and miles. The first time I saw a doctor was when I was a freshman in college. So I couldn’t grow up wanting to go into public health, or even wanting to be a doctor, because I’d never even heard of that. You can’t be what you can’t see"."

"I believe that the reason we do not see health care as a human right is that our country is run by a class of white men who don’t understand the problems of *needing* and *not having*. Perhaps they’ve never been there themselves. Nobody wants to be poor. We all want food, clothing, and shelter. And health care, too."

"""A core belief of mine is the importance of honesty. When we stop talking openly about sex, we stop communicating important information to our young people. Then you have worse reproductive health, more teenage pregnancy, higher rates of HIV/AID"."

""__ I think that we have made a lot of progress. But you know, it took thousands of years to get here. Can you imagine that in 1960 it was illegal for married people to use condoms"."

"I heard on the way over here, by the way, that they've come up with a new nominee for surgeon general: Pee-Wee Herman, is....You don't think that would have happened if it weren't for the fact that you were all elected do you? This is a sensitive subject and I am not gonna mention it because she got canned for it, but I'll tell ya, she said much worse than this. And she said far stupider things, like “The way to combat crime is with safer bullets, with safer guns.”"

"I certainly agree with the suggestion made by the former surgeon general Joycelyn Elders that a public dialogue on the decriminalization of drugs is absolutely necessary. As it stands today, people are punished because they have done harm to themselves. The "crime problem" can only be addressed ultimately by the eradication of poverty, by the eradication of the circumstances that lead people to commit the kinds of crimes for which most are sent to prison."

"I have rejected as idolatrous the Religion of Modern Medicine and its fundamental sacrament – vivisection. For years I have encouraged my medical students to surreptitiously photograph animal conditions in their laboratories, to keep diaries, to leak the truth to the media. This sabotage serves not only to inform the public, but also helps save the integrity – indeed, the souls – of the students. For myself, I cling to the Sabbath commandment prohibiting even animals from being worked seven days a week. Every human being whose religion is derived from the Old Testament (and Eastern religions as well) knows the laws protecting animals. Only Modern Medicine, in its arrogant idolatry, sanctions cruelty to animals as the norm."

"Yet the class structure which cripples Britain more than any other European state, is as nothing compared with the stratified hierarchies in Austronesian traditional societies from Madagascar through Bali to Samoa. (...) This consciousness of rank is thus clearly not something that was only picked up by Austronesian societies from later Indian influence.” (p.484)"

"Barley cultivation was developed in the Indus Valley."

"We find the highest rates and greatest diversity of the M17 line in Pakistan, India, and eastern Iran, and low rates in the Caucasus. M17 is not only more diverse in South Asia than in Central Asia, but diversity characterizes its presence in isolated tribal groups in the South, thus undermining any theory of M17 as a marker of a “male Aryan invasion” of India. One average estimate for the origin of this line in India is as much as 51,000 years. All this suggests that M17 could have found his way initially from India or Pakistan, through Kashmir, then via Central Asia and Russia, before finally coming into Europe. (Oppenheimer, 2003: 152)"

"Another geneticist, S. Oppenheimer, offers independent confirmation (2003) that there was no Aryan entry, either male or female; he focuses on the M17, or so-called “Caucasoid” (=Aryan!), genetic marker: “South Asia is logically the ultimate origin of M17 and his ancestors; and sure enough we find highest rates and greatest diversity of the M17 line in Pakistan, India and eastern Iran, and low rates in the Caucasus. M17 is not only more diverse in South Asia than in Central Asia but diversity characterizes its presence in isolated tribal groups in the south, thus undermining any theory of M17 as a marker of a ‘male Aryan invasion’ of India” ."

"Oppenheimer, a leading advocate of this scenario, summarizes it in these words: “For me and for Toomas Kivisild, South Asia is logically the ultimate origin of M17 and his ancestors; and sure enough we find the highest rates and greatest diversity of the M17 line in Pakistan, India, and eastern Iran, and low rates in the Caucasus. M17 is not only more diverse in South Asia than in Central Asia, but diversity characterizes its presence in isolated tribal groups in the south, thus undermining any theory of M17 as a marker of a ‘male Aryan invasion’ of India. One average estimate for the origin of this line in India is as much as 51,000 years. All this suggests that M17 could have found his way initially from India or Pakistan, through Kashmir, then via Central Asia and Russia, before finally coming into Europe.”"

"First, that the Europeans’ genetic homeland was originally in South Asia in the Pakistan/Gulf region over 50,000 years ago; and second, that the Europeans’ ancestors followed at least two widely separated routes to arrive, ultimately, in the same cold but rich garden. The earliest of these routes was the Fertile Crescent. The second early route from South Asia to Europe may have been up the Indus into Kashmir and on to Central Asia, where perhaps more than 40,000 years ago hunters first started bringing down game as large as mammoths."

"Oppenheimer is a medical doctor who has lived in Southeast Asia for decades. Like most of us, he is vaguely influenced by Marxism, e.g. where he dismisses religion as a means to “control other people's labour”, with explicit reference to Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. His book is based on solid scientific research (genetic, anthropological, linguistic and archaeological), and is in that respect very different from the numerous Atlantis books which draw on “revelations” and “channeling”... Stephen Oppenheimer makes a detailed and strong case for the importance of the culture of sunken Sundaland for the later cultures in the wide surroundings. India too must have benefited of certain achievements and human cargo imported from there."

"The hardest thing about making a vaccine is mass-producing it. You have to have the right buffering agent, the right stabilizing agent. You have to have the right vial. You have to do real-time stability studies to make sure that when the vaccine leaves the manufacturing plant, that the time it takes to get from the tarmac to the person's arm does not cause any problems. Because, remember, when you're shipping vaccines, they're going to be exposed to high temperatures and low temperatures, and you have to make sure that you have a stable product."

"It is not medicine we should fear, but the folly of mankind. Every day, the experience of our predecessors increases our ability to change nature by using its own laws. But using this power wisely is what each generation must learn in its turn. We are certainly more powerful today than ever before, but we are no wiser: Technology is cumulative, wisdom is not."

"A watershed in my life was getting divorced in Puerto Rico—that was my second marriage—and leaving Puerto Rico to become part of the women’s movement. In my formation as a professional, there was always a kind of pressure to deny or not use a lot of your personal experience. The science of medicine, to some degree, negates the human, feeling, experiential part of it. But I was now discovering a whole other world out there through my personal experience of a deceptive marriage. That triggered quite a bit of growth in me toward understanding what happens internally to people, what happens in their lives and what they can do or not do…So I went back to New York and I got very involved in reproductive rights. I began to join in the women’s movement. At Barnard College there was a conference called the First International Conference on Abortion Rights that was attended by a few thousand women…We organized one of the first consciousness-raising groups of Latino women…A number of incredible things emerged from women talking about their experiences…We shared and we became very bonded. That was the beginning of my identification with women’s issues and reproductive health."

"My mother was a schoolteacher who fought for reforms such as the right to teach in Spanish, the vernacular,” she explained. “English was imposed upon the Puerto Rican school system when the US military invaded in 1898."

"In Puerto Rico, racism was subtle. There wasn't the kind of separatist racism like in the US. I wasn't used to this."

"I saw that anybody who could afford an abortion could get a perfectly fine one. It would be written up as an appendectomy. Women from the US used to go to Havana to get abortions."

"What brought me to the women's movement was the women's health movement. The cultural elements of feminism didn't resonate with me, but abortion resonated with me. I became part of the women's movement in October 1970 at an international meeting on abortion rights attended by several thousand women and held at Barnard College in New York City."

"Women brought a feminist perspective to health issues affecting women. They examined power relationships among individuals and between individuals and systems. The very early drafts of Our Bodies, Ourselves, by the Boston Women's Health Collective, which was seminal in all this, said we need to know our bodies, we need to know what makes us healthy and what threatens our health, and we need to negotiate or confront the health care system to get the best possible health from it."

"The only way to effect change was for more women to go into the professions and instill a different perspective—a more human touch and a more respectful relationship with patients."

"The women's movement was very diverse, but the more public positions articulated by the movement didn't include the experiences or concerns of women of color or of poor women."

"We got a lot of flack from White women who had private doctors and wanted to be sterilized,” she said. “They had been denied their request for sterilization because of their status (unmarried), or the number of their children (usually the doctor thought they had too few). They therefore opposed a waiting period or any other regulation that they interpreted as limiting access . . . While young white middle class women were denied their requests for sterilization, low income women of certain ethnicity were misled or coerced into them"

"APHA has always provided a home for people in public health with a broad view of what public health is. Public health is really about people's life conditions and how these conditions do or do not promote health. APHA is committed to equity and ending all barriers, and has always been committed to civil, human and health rights. It's a wonderful place for women to be."

"We still have a system that excludes, underserves, and even misserves all too many people. The latest census tells us that there are over 44 million Americans without health insurance. That is inexcusable. The failed social policies of the past few decades have widened the gaps between rich and poor, well and poorly educated, medically indigent and consumers of elective high-tech surgery, owners of multi-mansions and the homeless. We need health, but above all we need to create a grounding for healthy public policy that redresses and salvages the growing inequities. We cannot achieve a healthier us without achieving a healthier, more equitable health care system, and ultimately, a more equitable society."

"On behalf of myself, the secretary general and all staff members of Palestine Academy for Science and Technology, I would like to extend my deep sympathies and condolences to you and the entire American nation in these extremely difficult times. I must say we were all utterly shocked and dismayed at the terrible human loss incurred and the excruciating pain that ensues. May God ease your pain and grant you patience."

"We must eliminate these vices in our societies but to achieve that we need to work closely with communities and other institutions concerned."

"Any domestic violence case that resulted in death starts with a misunderstanding that can be contained if people reported it early enough, you need to go out and sensitize people to partner and share with you information about abuses and conflicts happening in homes."

"The Government of Rwanda firmly believes that in order to ensure that there is widespread impact of social protection policies and strategies towards poverty reduction, there is a need for the social ministries and other relevant institutions to forge a closer collaboration and leverage the efforts of each other in understanding and having a shared vision of how we can move this agenda forward towards poverty reduction in our communities."

"I am very honoured to be elected the speaker of FFPP. I promise to continue promoting the interests of our forum which promotes democracy ."

"I cannot stand as the woman candidate. I am the candidate of a political party. And women, just like men, will choose other candidates. I am not here so that I get the female vote, but to prove that there is equality between men and women in Rwanda. I am not the woman candidate standing for women ."

"To achieve sustainable development, everybody should work hard and contribute to the development of the country. It’s time for residents to ask questions and advice you on what to do to improve service delivery."

"This means that 2,000 houses could cost about Rwf25 billion and if the number of the required houses is more, which is likely to be the case if the information we are getting from districts is anything to go by, the total sum could go up to over Rwf30 billion ."

"Elections were peaceful and transparent. The electorate voted for the candidate of their choice and I don’t have any objection to that; I accept and respect the results that came from the election ."

"Political parties should take advantage of this programme so that they send us people who will play significant roles for the development of these parties ."

"I thank all the people who voted for PPC for their trust in me and for supporting our party all through ."

"Stay faithful to God and He will finish what He started in you. Don't settle for being self-made."

"“Fogarty training has given us Africans the skills we need to conduct research, document the illness and look at possible interventions that work in Africa. There are people who are alive today because of Fogarty's input in terms of capacity-building, both in America and around the world. Just think about it: the first cases of HIV were described in the early ‘80s, and in just over 30 years, we are talking of eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV on the African continent. Fogarty has changed the face of HIV medicine.”"

"“I also formed life-long friendships with colleagues at the University of Washington, which nurtured the research creativity of the team.”"

"I learned that kids live in the community and that pediatricians need to be involved in the community in order for children to develop healthy habits and succeed in life."

"Separating children from their parents contradicts everything we stand for as pediatricians — protecting and promoting children's health ..."

"... I went to medical school before I became a mother. I had my oldest son as a fourth-year medical student. And so, when I was an intern, he was a baby. I had my daughter in the middle of my residency. And then my youngest son in my first year of private practice. And throughout my career, what I decided to do had everything to do with my own kids ... because the surprising thing that I learned is that what you do with children as a pediatrician is just a little bit in your office. What you really need to do is change the world around where they live day-to-day ... if you're going to improve their health."

"Over a span of two weeks, AAP President Colleen A. Kraft, M.D., M.B.A., FAAP, and other pediatrician experts were featured in more than 60 national and regional news outlets covering the crisis at the border. They had a consistent message: Family separation causes irreparable harm to child health, and detention is no place for a child. Amid advocacy and outcry from pediatricians, advocates and the public, President Donald Trump issued an executive order in June that sought to end the administration’s policy of separating children and parents at the border."

"I joined the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in 1998 as a junior doctor and was interested in training in paediatrics. It was here that I was introduced to research on malaria in general, and begun to understand that we know so little about this disease that has been with humans for such a long time."

"The Wellcome Trust has been instrumental to getting me established as a credible African research scientist. I competed and won a training fellowship that supported my PhD studies. My current work is supported by an intermediate fellowship, and this has enabled me to compete successfully for an MRC/DFID African Research Leader award."

"When will we have a malaria vaccine"

"The fact that people are developing immunity to malaria all around me – I feel that this process is staring me in the face- if you like, and I must be able to see and understand how it is happening."

"I try to understand how adults in Africa learn to live in harmony with the parasite responsible for malaria, such that infections do not make them ill. This knowledge could help us design vaccines that would protect children, who can die as a result of a malaria infection."

"My average day has evolved over the years as I have graduated from being a junior to a more senior researcher. Earlier on, I’d spend a lot of time in the laboratory generating data and less time in the office reading scientific literature, analysing data and writing up my work."

"Malaria still claims the lives of hundreds of thousands of children each year and has a major economic impact on the lives of many in sub-Saharan Africa. Children that survive severe malaria can be left with permanent physical disability that takes many forms."

"whatever you have in your hand to do, if you give it your whole heart and all your energy, it will give you a lot of dividends."

"As you move up it becomes harder because you’ll be distracted by dramas and sideshows, but remember that they’re not the main story."

"If you go to a region with a lot of malaria, you find that only the children get seriously sick and the adults are basically immune. I wanted to understand the process that makes adults immune to malaria."

"I am a reluctant clinician."

"As a woman who wants to have a rounded life, you will want children at some point. You have to accept that you enjoy all that comes with having children which will have a cost on how far your career can go."

"I had three late miscarriages and one early and that took a long while to recover from. Some women have children with serious disabilities."

"It makes me appreciate the community that transformed a little girl growing up in Kenya into an international award-winning scientist."

"here’s a toast to you."

"This award helps to put African science and scientists firmly on the map. We can bring positive and meaningful change to our communities through effective research, innovation and leadership."

"I inspire women in science all over the world, and more so in Africa."

"I feel the urgency with dealing with these [infectious disease] problems because I have experienced them up close."

"The closest comparison I can give is with COVID-19. When it hit Western countries, we all felt it: the pain of lockdown; of losing someone; of being ill ourselves. We felt that urgency, that we needed a vaccine and we needed it yesterday, so we said, ‘let's do it, let's do everything that we can’. For diseases that are far off, that sense of urgency is lost."

"When you come into a place, it is really important to see people who are achieving things,” Professor Osier said. “If you come into a place where people are dead wood, however brilliant you may be, you are going to become dead wood yourself."

"The journey towards the development of a malaria vaccine is bumpy. It involves understanding highly evolved parasites that can replicate while hidden within the cells of their hosts."

"The second angle of our research aims to understand how the immune system handles the complexity of the malaria parasite. For example, if it produces antibodies, we need to identify the parasite proteins to which the antibodies are binding and the mechanisms they are using. To do this, we probe the parasite with antibodies from people who have developed resistance to malaria parasite."

"Aims, methods, and persistency, are common to the medical profession of all countries. On its flag is inscribed what should be the life rule of all nations: Fraternity and solidarity."

"The language of medicine and science is being used to drive people to suicide. The mantle of concern for children is being claimed to destroy children's lives. We have to take a firmer stand on behalf of those who are being hurt."

"I started my pediatric residency program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City in 1983,"That was before the HiB vaccine came out, which protects against a bacteria called Haemophilus Influenzae Type B. "We used to see so many children with very serious bacterial infections due to this bacteria — pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis. And after the vaccines came out and had been given for a number of years, we really no longer see those infections."

"It's impossible for me to say what happens after the inauguration," she says. "This campaign has been planned for more than a year; it's coming out now."

"She achieved a lot. She was a very determined individual whose priorities were her patients and the children."

"“I would not have succeeded in my career had it not been for my husband,”says a very appreciative Adhikari."

"Conventional practice was that TB was difficult to confirm in children."

"There was a misconception that asthma is rare in African children."

"The study showed that it's common, with prevalence rates that are often higher than global rates."

"The study will hopefully provide valuable information to identify new interventions for improving child health."

"Translational research is the bridge between clinical and basic science research."

"The implementation of findings into practice and public health including policy and guidelines."

"Despite children being a third of the population, child health is ­relatively underfunded and under­resourced."

"Child health has been worsening over the past 20 years in South Africa."

"More funding and capacity development are needed to strengthen child health programmes."

"My hope is that it helps shine a spotlight on this relatively under resourced area of research."

"Children are so seldom prioritised on the health agenda."

"There’s a lack of knowledge about the burden of childhood illnesses even though children make up 37 percent of our population."

"Much childhood death and illness is preventable."

"Improving access to affordable, effective interventions globally is vital."

"There’s so much respiratory disease and there’s so much to be done."

"I was always very interested in the potential public health impact."

"I wanted to be in an area in which you could turn things around."

"In pulmonology, there’s a lot of immediate change oxygen, antibiotics, those sorts of interventions, plus interventions on a longer timeframe."

"It’s a key issue to get these products to low and middle income countries (LMICs)."

"This is where children are dying from RSV."

"Paediatrics is about creating better futures."

"The big question in the project is, what makes for a healthy child?"

"We enrolled pregnant women, moms in these peri urban poor areas."

"Following them through pregnancy, through childbirth, and now we are following the children who are turning 11 years old."

"We wanted to look very broadly to understand why some children get ill."

"Why some children are healthy children from the same communities."

"We looked at growth, at neurodevelopment, and now as the children are getting older, we are starting to look at non-communicable diseases like cardiometabolic disease and asthma."

"The mother’s health, both physical and psychological, factors like depression and anxiety."

"We looked at the home environment, we visited the homes before the children were born, and after."

"We looked at child and maternal nutrition, at allergies."

"We even looked at things like parenting style."

"Some of their findings were predictable."

"Mothers who smoke in pregnancy have children who are smaller, children who have more lung disease, children who are less healthy."

"Now this is very important because of the new vaccines, which we really need to access for our children."

"Children suffering from diseases of poverty."

"When Mandela was freed, there was so much euphoria and so much hope for the future."

"We felt that this is where we could make a contribution."

"In individual emotional development the precursor of the mirror is the mother's face."

"When girls and boys in their secondary narcissism look in order to see beauty and to fall in love, there is already evidence that doubt has crept in about their mother's continued love and care. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her."

"As I’ve grown in my career, I’ve begun to understand just how blessed I was to be afforded the opportunity to attend college and pursue my dreams."

"As I was fortunate, it is my responsibility to reach back and help others, especially those most under-resourced."

"You know, everyone has different reasons for why they believe in something, so I try to be relatively tolerant. But in terms of going down the rabbit hole of social media on that topic, I kind of let my comms team manage that. I really try not to engage with those folks."

"We found that the death rate was 25 times higher in children with CP, compared to the general non-CP population sample. In the CP group, females, and older children (10-18 years) had the highest relative risks of death in relation to the non-CP general population. Furthermore, in children with CP, there was an almost 7 times risk of death in those with severe motor impairments compared to those with milder ones."

"This award highlights the importance of neurodevelopmental disorders which are a great health problem worldwide, often diagnosed late and treated poorly, It affirms my contribution to science in Africa, strengthens advocacy for gender equity in science and education and makes me a role model for others, increasing my influence in the scientific community."

"These results show that Universal Health Coverage is just a slogan, and health care and schooling are not reaching these children."

"I wanted to be able to take care of so many kinds of people, so many kinds of issues, and to know a lot about many different things."

"I chose intentionally to work for Cook County Health because their motto is to give everyone the care and respect they need, regardless of their ability to pay."

"Q: You've talked about how with some children the light goes out of their eyes. Is there a situation during your practice, whether in the hospital or on the streets, where you just weren't able to help? A: Oh yes, I have seen so much, my dear. There are children who are so deeply broken that it becomes too late to reach them. It’s incredibly difficult to work with those in such dire situations so much trauma, so many emotional scars, a lack of affection, and cases of rape and incest. What I have witnessed in my life is overwhelming. More recently, while visiting a refugee camp in Lebanon, I met a 13-year-old boy. He told me, When I arrived here, I was very young. I’ve been living in this camp for seven years. I feel like I’m imprisoned in this camp and in my own body. Then he said, This is not life. When I asked him what could make him want to live again, he replied, It’s too late. Around the world, suffering, despair, and suicide are on the rise. We must be very careful about what we do it’s always a fragile balance between hope and despair. That is why I keep urging that we act swiftly. We must act quickly."

"Q: In 2008, you were named UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography. That must have been quite a challenge, you know, for the world. What did you try to achieve with that role and what needs to be done in the world on behalf of those children? A: We have to never forget. Children are becoming a big market. You have not only child sexual abuse material, but you have grooming, sexting, sextortion, live streaming. You have promotion of suicide. You have promotion of self harm. You have enrollment. You have fake news. You have, you know, theft of identity and privacy of children that are used. You have gambling. You have gaming. The list is huge. And exposure to violence, exposure to harmful content, exposure to violence, sexual, you know. It's why I'm pushing currently, even when we are seeing with countries, we have this pushback regarding sexual education and reproductive health, to tell them, My God, it's needed more than ever. It’s not encouraging them to have sex. So, we need to make sure that they are aware."

"The number of 300 million, you know, of children victims of sexual exploitation online is not reflecting the truth because the problem is also reporting, and we have not all the data. Why we arrive at this stage? Because you have more and more children connected, and more and more children younger, more and more younger children are connected. The other point that it's important that you have also more and more predators and sexual offenders who are connected."

"The issue is truly significant, which is why we are strongly advocating within the Global Digital Compact. I also recently returned from the Global Cybersecurity Forum to ensure that child protection online is properly integrated."

"It is not an easy issue to resolve, as there are three key aspects to consider: the child who is the victim, the child who is the bully, and the bystander."

"Child labor is considered as a violence against children because normally children have to be in school, or in another way, but not working. The problem is currently is this number is high because of what is going worldwide. Because of all this crisis, you know, forced displacement, food insecurity, poverty, social disparities, you know, conflict, climate crisis. The number of children who are enrolled in child labor and in many cases in the worst forms of child labor, really is increasing. And many children are victims of violence at the place of their work. But many children who are victim of child labor are also victim of trafficking. Are victims of smuggling, are victims of sexual exploitation."

"That is why I emphasize that violence results from multiple factors. Unless we address all the key causes, we will neither end it nor prevent it."

"You hear some strong policymakers telling us our children are our future. They are not your future. You are the past; they are the present and they are their own future."

"What I learned in my life, it's the eyes. When you are speaking with children, when you have light in their eyes, it's still possible. When the light switches off, it’s too late."

"General practitioners have been largely forgotten in primary healthcare."

"We stand in the midst of a massive reorganization of our intellectual and spiritual life, which has seized all areas of this life—not least in medicine. The central idea of the new Reich—that the whole is more than its parts, and that the Volk is more important than the individual—had to bring about fundamental changes in our whole attitude, since this regards the nation’s most precious asset, its health."

"There are more than those who have already started on treatment. And therefore, my message was to request for continued support to Africa so that we can treat the huge numbers of people, who are still in desperate need of life-saving medicines."

"They wouldn’t be so many as to overwhelm the budget. We should be able to handle all of those patients who are in immediate need of treatment for their very survival."

"The numbers, not only in Uganda, but across Africa, are still many."

"It’s not a Ugandan-peculiar situation, but certainly there is need for increased funding."

"If we don’t get increased support, not only from PEPFAR, but the global community, we may lose ground and start losing the impressive gains that we have achieved over the last seven years."

"And yet those in immediate need of antiretroviral therapy are estimated to be over seven million."

"Sadly for all of us, our culture does little to encourage boys to become great men. Television depicts men as stupid, or as sex addicts, and almost always intellectually and emotionally shallow. Men don't seem to care about these depictions, merely laughing them off. But I care about them, because our sons need good role models and given the amount of time boys spend with electronic media they need good role models on television. And of course, there is a bigger cultural fallout from the depreciation of masculinity and fatherhood, which is lower marriage rates, higher divorce rates, and the reality that many boys grow up in fatherless homes.This is a national tragedy, because boys need healthy encouragement from their fathers more than they need it from anyone else. In a boy's eyes, his father's words are sacred. They hold enormous power. His words can crush a boy or piece him back together after a fall. If a father is not there at all, there is a huge void in a boy's life — and as the depressing statistics remind us, boys who grow up without fathers are at a dramatically greater risk of drug abuse, alcohol abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, and ending up in prison.Encouragement from a father changes a boy's life. His words can ignite furious passion in a boy that will help him achieve any goal he sets out to accomplish. To a son, a dad's words are the final truth. If they are positive, a boy feels that he cannot be beaten; if they are negative, however, a son feels that he could never win. If you are a son reading this, you know exactly what I mean."

"Every boy needs schooling in virtues in order to become a great man. And any parent can school him because at the heart of virtue is masculine intuition. Parents don't have to construct the virtues and then pour then into the heart of their son. The virtues are there, but in small fragments that must be cleaned, shaped, and polished.The great burden for parents is finding time. Haste is the enemy of virtue, because it gives us no time to discuss, think, wonder, or pray; it forces us to push our boys to perform when we should be working with them. Give time back to your son. Give him time to dream. Encourage him to question and to think. Boys must have time to think upon virtues before they embrace them. Otherwise, virtues become nothing more than a disposable outer layer of clothing. A man can put them on or off, depending on his mood. But real virtues are not so disposable — they become part of the boy."

"Boys will search for virtue, just as they will search for truth and self-worth, because in the heart of a developing boy is the desire to know the truth, to know what is good, and to know that he has some reason to do the right thing. This is why boys are famous for setting out rules, standards of conduct for themselves. They derive their moral code from those they admire (usually their parents). Once a boy sets out his rules, he holds them as the best and highest way a boy (himself) should behave. If a boy succeeds in following his code of conduct, he's able to respect himself, and he believes others will respect him as well. Respect and honor are important to boys (and men)."

"At the top of most lists of good behavior is honesty. Boys are keenly attuned to honesty in those around them. And they feel it immediately when people around them sway from it. If a boy has a strong conscience, his eyebrows, nostrils, hairline, and mouth will all betray him if he tries to lie, because he will know he is breaking the code of conduct. Boys consider honesty a masculine quality, so to betray it is to be less of a man. Heroes, in a boy's eyes, are deserving of honor because they stand for what is right and just, and what is right and just is honesty.Living honestly feels better to boys than living with deception, even if that deception is meant to get them what they want. Boys like feeling strong and courageous, and telling the truth demands strength and honesty. Lying feels grungy. Lying makes boys fearful because they know it is a weakness. The liar is someone who is afraid of the truth.This is why boys are so open to being trained to tell the truth. They know that if you teach them to be truth tellers, you're teaching them to be strong. They know good boys, internally strong boys, tell the truth; wishy-washy boys lie. No one needs to tell them this; they know it. So in teaching honesty you have a ready audience. Don't blow it by encouraging your son to tell white lies — even if they're well intentioned. Young boys think in black-and-white terms. A statement is either true or it is false. The younger the boy, the less gray he feels in his thinking. When a parent coaxes him to tell "white lies" he is confused. The term is an oxymoron. In order to accommodate his parents' wishes, he puts lies into the pool of acceptable speech. Beginning such ambiguous training so early on in life leads boys down a slippery path."

"I told the Americans who wanted me to stay that I prefer to go home and help the children in my own country. I know that with my training for five years at Harvard and different medical institutions in America, I can do much."

"They are the most outstanding feature in my life,"