Hiv Quotes

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.

People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.

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

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

The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'

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 can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.