Quotes About HIV

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

When you think of the Gay Plague, it's really for the best these days that we put on a cheerful face and get on with what queens do best.

Luther did not believe that HIV was killing him. He believed that our inability to treat the symptoms that bothered him, our prescribing the wrong medications, was at the root of his problem. I almost believed him: Maybe if we could put together the right concoctions we could give him ten good years.

I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

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

I read a newspaper article in May 1984 which predicted that syringes would one day be a major cause of the transmission of HIV. It was what I had been waiting for - a project that had a lot of the things that I liked: problem-solving, product design, campaigning, and being a bit of a big mouth pain-in-the-bum.

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.

It [ME] is one of the most disabling diseases that I care for, far exceeding HIV disease except for the terminal stages.

the deeply held, sinister belief that perhaps HIV is physical evidence of our own unloveableness.

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.

Researchers were able to sequence the DNA of the SARS virus within thirty-one days of the outbreak—compared to fifteen years for HIV.

As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV.

In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.

Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about the HIV postive thing? He gives me a look. I give him one back

It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.

It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.

The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.

More often than not, media coverage now mentions HIV-positive people in criminal contexts.

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire.

During the HIV epidemic, newspapers had questioned public health pronouncements and warned against government overreach. As early as June 1983, the New York Times had published an opinion piece titled "AIDS and Civil Liberties," citing the "danger that the judicial and political systems will fall prey to the irrational demands of a frightened public and impose groundless and onerous regulations that result in the widespread loss of freedom."39

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.