Amy Lockwood famous quotes

If what we're really trying to do is stop the spread of HIV, we need to think about the customer.
-- Amy Lockwood

#Thinking #Trying #Hiv

What is it that you think about just before you get a condom? Sex!
-- Amy Lockwood

#Sex #Motivation #Inspiration

Only 3 percent of people in the DRC use condoms.
-- Amy Lockwood

#People #Use #Healthcare

Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He argues that there are three mythic solutions to poverty eradication: donations, national economic growth, and big businesses. Instead, he advocates helping the poor earn money through their own efforts of developing low-cost tools that are effective and profitable.
-- Amy Lockwood

#People #Effort #Growth

Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.
-- Amy Lockwood

#Stars #Poverty #Sides

Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering issues such as civil war, dependence on extractive industries, and bad governance, he argues that the strongest industrialized countries must enact a plan to help with international policies and standards.
-- Amy Lockwood

#Country #War #Home

Moyo, a Zambia-born economist, asserts that aid is not only ineffective-it's harmful. Her argument packs a strong punch because she was born and raised in Africa. Moyo believes aid money promotes the corruption of governments and the dependence of citizens, and advocates that an investment approach will do more to help reduce poverty than aid ever could.
-- Amy Lockwood

#Strong #Believe #Government

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

If what we're really trying to do is stop the spread of HIV, we need to think about the customer.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.

Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.