Nwankwo Kanu Quotes

Our dream is to build a hospital in Nigeria and four other countries in Africa.

Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.

I'm involved with health care/medical supply delivery to Africa and started a non-profit organization to bring supplies to Congo.

Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.

From pink water bottles for breast cancer to dumping a bucket of ice water on your head for neuromuscular conditions, it seems we're bombarded by requests to be 'aware' of one thing or another.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

I am excited to share my archive pictures and footage. I'll also share announcements about current events and success stories from the Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation to help fight diabetes and child obesity.

As a supporter of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and their Home Run Challenge program, I am extremely grateful for the valuable partnerships and relationships built with Major League Baseball and our affiliates.

Keeping children alive and free of disease is not a political issue and cannot be put into a partisan box.

I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

I am hoping to be able to lend my support to a Sickle Cell charity in the near future, as I want to try and help raise money and awareness about this disease.

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

I'm an honorary ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer, and I'm also associated with St. Jude's.

However, most of my part, I play a pediatrician, and most of my role had to do with being in another place, staying at the hospital and trying to save kids and stay until people could come. So, it was more based on reality.

The world is rich enought today that the idea of millions of children dying of disease is unacceptable. We have the resouurces and know how to prevent this.

When I was 12 years old, I got involved with an organization called Artists for a New South Africa. One of its missions is to help with HIV/AIDS awareness.

I believe all children deserve quality health care.

I work with poor kids. I work in the fight against HIV.

In the United States, I feel like polio doesn't exist, but it very much does. I've been to many countries and saw how lucky we are that we can go straight to the doctor or the ER in the U.S. I would love for moms in other countries to not experience my fears.

I joined Planned Parenthood because I wanted to help poor women with real health care needs.

We need to do everything we can to protect the health and welfare of children around the world, but fortunately, it's getting easier to provide things like medication and care.

When I had the heart attack I had one stent inserted, which was great.

Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.