Quotes About HIV

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

The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.

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

Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is contracted - until Magic Johnson came out. I'd stereotyped it, thinking it was a gay disease, a white man's disease.

In most life forms, genes are stretched out along the length of a filament-like molecule of DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid. But many viruses—including influenza, HIV, and the coronavirus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)—encode their genes in RNA, ribonucleic acid, an even simpler but less stable molecule.

Influenza is an RNA virus. So are HIV and the coronavirus.

HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.

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

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.

With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.

If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?

Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know.

The closest thing to the human immunodeficiency viruses, Hahn explained, are the simian equivalents, SIVs. But "simian immunodeficiency virus" is a huge misnomer. The virus doesn't harm the immune systems of these natural hosts; they don't even seem to get sick. "If we could figure out how simian immune systems deal with the viruses, we might have a clue to controlling AIDS," she said. "That very hope drives my work.

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.

Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.

Being HIV positive doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.

Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.

The realities of the lives of many LGBT people, from grappling with HIV to the presence of anti-LGBT violence, are unconsciously covered up as the victory narrative consumes us and as we allow it to happen at our own peril.

When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

Studies on the impact of abstinence-only programs aren't conclusive and seem to depend to some extent on the ideology of those conducting the study. But on balance, the evidence suggests that they slightly delay the debut of sexual activity; once it has been initiated, however, kids are less likely to use contraception. The studies suggest that the result is more pregnancies, more abortions, more sexually transmitted diseases, and more HIV.