quotes about Hiv
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If what we're really trying to do is stop the spread of HIV, we need to think about the customer.
-- Amy Lockwood -
Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels,
-- Anderson Cooper -
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.
-- Annie Lennox -
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I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.
-- Anthony S. Fauci -
We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.
-- Anthony S. Fauci -
Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
I have friends of mine who have died of AIDS and many of those friends...did not tell me until the very end...because they felt that there was a stigma, a taboo, attached to it...now we have more women infected with HIV/AIDS, many of those women were infected by their husbands who did not tell them
-- Bianca Jagger -
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Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.
-- Bjorn LomborgSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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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.'
-- Brande Roderick -
That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care.
-- Brande Roderick -
I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.
-- Bruce Davison -
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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.
-- Charlize Theron -
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
-- David Geffen -
Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.
-- David MixnerSource : "Why We Can’t Forget about HIV/AIDS in Health-Care Reform" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2009.
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The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
-- Dennis Miller -
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I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.
-- Dennis Rodman -
Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.
-- Douglas Wilson -
Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
-- Elayne Boosler -
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.
-- Ezra Miller -
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When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom.
-- Godfried DanneelsSource : "Cardinal backs use of condoms" by John Hooper, Andrew Osborn, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2004.
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Magic Johnson links his HIV and treatment to health care as though ObamaCare would provide the same level of care that a mega rich celebrity would get. Is he going to dump his coverage? Is he going to dump it and sign up for ObamaCare?
-- Greg Gutfeld -
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.
-- India.Arie -
Its not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There are no such documents.
-- Kary MullisSource : Spin Magazine, Volume 10, No. 4, 1994.
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Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.
-- Laura Bush -
An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.
-- Laura Bush -
I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?
-- Layne Staley -
The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all - today HIV/AIDS is the biggest threat to this one universal objective. UNICEF needs us all to help them change the world for children
-- Liam Neeson -
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I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.
-- Linda Evangelista -
I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.
-- Luc Montagnier -
We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system.
-- Luc MontagnierSource : Interview with Kit Melamed, maisonneuve.org. 2004.
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When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
-- Magic Johnson -
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I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
-- Magic Johnson -
HIV changed my life, but it doesn't keep me from living.
-- Magic JohnsonSource : "New U.S. HIV Cases Rise, Spark Yawns" by Bryan Robinson, abcnews.go.com.
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AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
-- Mangosuthu ButheleziSource : "Mbeki vows to step up AIDS fight". www.cnn.com. February 8, 2002.
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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.
-- Margaret ChanSource : "Interview with Dr. Margaret Chan". "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. April 16, 2007.
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Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
-- Maria Mitchell -
If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.
-- Meir Kahane -
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.
-- Mike DeWine -
Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.
-- Nate MendelSource : "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. October 03, 2000.
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Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
-- Nelson Mandela -
History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS
-- Nelson Mandela -
As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off.
-- Pedro Zamora -
They have hyped up HIV into this super-rapist but in reality the damn thing can hardly get an erection.
-- Peter DuesbergSource : "Times of London", May 11, 1992.
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Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
-- Philip Emeagwali -
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
-- Philip Emeagwali -
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.
-- Philip Emeagwali -
Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.
-- Serge LangSource : Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.618, Springer Science & Business Media
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Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.
-- Serge LangSource : Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.618, Springer Science & Business Media
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As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted.
-- Seth Berkley -
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.
-- Tara Reid -
Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.
-- Terry Zwigoff -
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Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency.
-- Thabo Mbeki -
We must walk in solidarity with those who are living with HIV/AIDS and with those at risk. As witnesses of Christ, we are called to respect the dignity of each person and to promote healthy living - physically, spiritually, morally and psychologically - through prevention and treatment
-- Theodore Edgar McCarrick -
Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
-- Wangari Maathai -
Don't forget that at the end of the 70s people were much more into wild experimentation and hedonistic adventures. There was not really a fear of sexual diseases like HIV or aids back then, all that came later.
-- Eddy de Clercq -
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If you have HIV, I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of. Get treatment and don't think that you're out of options or resources because you're not.
-- Jay EllisSource : Source: www.ebony.com
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Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.
-- Jay EllisSource : Source: www.ebony.com
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If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.
-- Jean O'Leary -
Precision medicine is one way to attack cancer and it's proven to be very effective but, remember that like HIV/AIDS, you're going to need combination therapies.
-- Laurie GlimcherSource : Source: to.pbs.org
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HIV/AIDS from converted from a lethal disease into a chronic disease because basic scientists' fundamental research was done that illuminated aspects of that virus and allowed the generation of therapies like antiretroviral therapies. And so now HIV/AIDS is not a lethal disease, it is a chronic disease.
-- Laurie GlimcherSource : Source: to.pbs.org
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I don't know how many [South Africans] with HIV would want to take anti-retrovirals.
-- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang -
The phenomenon of HIV criminalization is so much more massive than people understand.
-- Sean Strub -
HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.
-- Sean Strub -
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There are laws that only apply to people with HIV - we're becoming a viral underclass.
-- Sean Strub -
It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.
-- Carl ZimmerSource : Source: bigthink.com
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Most people who are HIV positive are on drugs and that gets their viral load so low that it's harder to transmit it. Most new infections come from people who don't know they're infected.
-- Dale PeckSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.
-- Dale PeckSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.
-- Ryan White -
The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.
-- Ryan White -
Is neither a cure for AIDS nor a way of preventing infection with HIV.
-- John Mills -
HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize as a way to deceive ourselves about our invincibility. But it is a delusion.
-- Kwame DawesSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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