"Amid the plethora of new and newly validated interventions, there are signs that the child survival effort has lost its focus."
-Dr. Gareth Jones and colleagues, in the article, "How many child deaths
can we prevent this year?" published in The Lancet, 05 July 2003
"Good statistics enable us to look more closely, see more clearly, and act more conscientiously. Improved statistics are vital to changing the world for and with children."
-The United Nations Children's Fund, in Progress since
the World Summit for Children: A Statistical Review
"If we start with children, we are preventing future transmission [of tuberculosis]."
-Dr. Lourdes Lagayan
Mata, officer in charge,
Center for Tuberculosis in Children
"On our part we want to give. It's very expensive. So we make the family decide in some situations. [But] if the family complained that they don't have enough-because IvIG (intravenous gamma globulin) will cost from 60 thousand to 80 thousand, depending on the weight of the patient, then we will be pushed against the wall not to give it, especially if the fever is really very high, and the other signs and symptoms [of Kawasaki disease] are there."
-Pediatric cardiologist Emerancia Collado,
the Philippine Heart Center,
on giving gamma globulin
to patients with Kawasaki disease
"Fever the eternal reproach to the physicians."
-John Milton (1608 - 1674), English writer,
Paradise Lost
"The Philippines has all the ingredients of an explosive AIDS epidemic: widespread high-risk behaviors, low AIDS awareness, sporadic condom use-and a government that panders to anticondom Catholic bishops."
-US-based organization Human Rights Watch,
in the report Unprotected: Sex, Condoms,
and the Human Right to Health
"To deny people condoms is to infringe their right to life."
-Human Rights Watch researcher Jonathan Cohen,
during the launch of Unprotected in May
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