Annie Lennox Quotes

We Need Money To Scale Up The Services That Bring Medicine To Mothers. The United States Government's Doing That. There's A Global Fund That's Providing Money. Mothers2mothers Provides For Mothers Who Come In Who Don't Have Education, Who Don't Have Support. Mothers2mothers Employs Mothers With Hiv, Mothers Who Were Patients Recently In The Very Same Facilities. We Take Those Mothers Who Were Patients Who've Had Their Babies, We Bring Them Back, We Train Them, We Pay Them, To Be Health Care Professionals.

I Had A Number Of Different Labels. A Lot Of People Assumed I Was Gay Because I Was Wearing A Man's Suit, And One Had To Learn That It's Ok, People Will Do That, And You Don't Always Have To Explain It One Hundred Percent, Because They're Never Going To Accept What Your Own Interpretation Is. It's All Illusory.

More Than Anything, I Think Everything About Appearance Is Illusory. People See You, And They Think They Understand What You're Projecting, But Actually, They Have Their Own Interpretation Of It, Or They Put A Label On You.

If You Do Nothing, If A Mother Doesn't Come For Care, If She Breastfeeds Her Baby, The Chances Of The Baby Getting Hiv Are About 40%. So It's About The Difference Between 40% And Zero. This Is Almost Totally Preventable. But It Requires Mothers Coming For Care And Getting The Medicines They Need, And Getting The Education And Support They Need.

Medicine Comes With Hope: The Hope Of Having A Healthy Child, The Hope Of Being Able To Raise Your Family.

I Guess What I'm Passionate About Is, I See So Many Things That I Find That There's No Real Solution To, And You're Only Here For Such A Brief Moment In Time, Even If You Live To Be A Hundred Years Old. Yet, What Happens Within That Time Frame? So Many Things Happen.

I'm Passionate About Everything, Actually. I'm Passionate About Life.

There's Always Darkness Around, And If You Focus On The Darkness, You Don't Know Where To Go. But If You Direct Yourself At The Light - There It Is! It's Right There.

It's Harder To Get Out Of Bed When You've Failed.

My First Understanding Of Hiv And Aids Was Like Everybody Else From My Generation. In The Mid-'80s, We Heard About This, And It Was Terrifying, Because We Knew Nothing About How To Respond To It Appropriately, And We Didn't Really Understand About How The Virus Is Passed. There Was A Lot Of Misconception About That.

There's So Much Stigma Around Hiv/aids. 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 Hiv/aids Pandemic In Sub-saharan Africa, How It Was Affecting Women And Their Children. I Haven't Been Able To Walk Away From It.

To Try To Help People Have Babies In A Healthy Way And To Celebrate The Process Of Delivering A Child Which Will Be Healthy Is, I Think, Almost The Best Part Of Healthcare.