Hiv Quotes

Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.

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

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing down scn, that task falls to you and me.

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.

I think it is very important to join the fight against AIDS and HIV and think it is wonderful that Belvedere and Annabel's are supporting, and had this event this evening.

Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.

The key to HIV/AIDS was to say let's give a patient multiple different therapies at the same time and that makes the virus much less likely to mutate.

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.

A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don't survive after a time because they've been sick too.

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

I don't know how many [South Africans] with HIV would want to take anti-retrovirals.

There is not substantial data that AZT stops the transmission of HIV from mother to child. There is too much conflicting data to make concrete policy.

HIV/AIDS is the greatest danger we have faced for many, many centuries. HIV/AIDS is worse than a war. It is like a world war. Millions of people are dying from it.

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

It's hard to imagine, but we cant think of HIV/AIDS as being somebody else's story. It could be any of ours.

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

Now people with HIV are no longer dying, but living many years - we are around longer to potentially affect others.

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

The phenomenon of HIV criminalization is so much more massive than people understand.

In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering.

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

There are laws that only apply to people with HIV - we're becoming a viral underclass.

That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.

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

HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

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

You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name." I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive reading. Operation Spring Breeze, " I murmured.

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

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.

If you want to talk about it with someone, then I'm happy to listen, or try and help, but you should only tell me if you want to.

That's the problem with lying. You can never remember what you've said.

You must work to live, not live to work.

May we each find in ourselves the courage we forgot we have, to see the beauty we forgot is inside us, while battling the demons we forgot we can slay, on a battlefield we forgot we can win.

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.

Life lessons build strength, and life is truly A Beautiful Struggle

HIV is free, why pay for it