Quotes About HIV

I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.

HIV is not a gay or straight disease. It's a young people's disease, unfortunately.

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.

That all-too-common gap - between where the doctors, facilities and resources are based and where the individuals suffering from HIV live - had to be closed. This is what the Health Extension Program (HEP) was created to do.

A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

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

When I started out, no one would talk to young people about HIV or AIDS. I looked around and radio looked like a powerful way to shape culture in a healthy way.

When I started the radio program in 1981, not many people were talking about sexuality. Not many people were talking about AIDS or HIV.

You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.

In the years when HIV was a killer, any parent of an openly gay person was terrified. I knew my mother well enough that she would spend every day praying that I didn't come across that virus. She'd have worried like that.

Too many people have already lost their lives to HIV and AIDS, and the more celebrities who can bring attention to the issue, the better.

It's so self-evident that I have to live my own history, to remind people the fact that I got into radio back in the early '80s was because of AIDS and HIV. It was what motivated me - that was the topic that I felt was so important that I had to talk about it, educating young people about it.

Por razones que Auvert y otros científicos no comprenden del todo, se descubrió que la circuncisión reduce el riesgo de transmisión del VIH hasta en un 60 por ciento en los hombres heterosexuales.

I never - I mean, I never saw any doctor's report saying I was HIV positive. I never had a doctor explain to me and show me what was going on.

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.

Botswana has an incredible future if it can wrestle the HIV scenario to the ground.

In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'

In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent killer.

I have seen a lot of people who are affected by HIV. When I see that there is industrial growth on one side but there is not awareness on the other side, it breaks my heart.

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

Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not the most thrifty thrift store - but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the metropolitan area.