Hiv Quotes

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.

I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.

They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.