Hiv Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.