Hiv Aids Quotes

• Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

  Ralph Fiennes

  Fighting, Keys, People

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• 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

  Fighting, Judging, Bears

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

  Princess Diana

  Kissing, Hands, People

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• Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness

  Nelson Mandela

  Giving, Hiv, Way

  "Mandela at Sunset" by Andrew Meldrum, progressive.org. October 2007.

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• It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Sex, Ignorance, People

  FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Dec 01, 2013

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• HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

  Annie Lennox

  Hiv, Boundaries, Aids

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• Stigma hurts. Because of AIDS, children are bullied, isolated and shut out of school. They are missing out on education. They are missing out on medicines. Children are missing your love, care and protection. Join me. And become a stigma buster. UNITE FOR CHILDREN UNITE AGAINST AIDS

  Jackie Chan

  Hurt, Children, School

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• Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

  Ryan White

  Education, Lying, Hiv

  "The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945" by Steven M. Gillon, (p. 322), January 1, 2012.

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• Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Real, Voice, Differences

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• No one can lead our lives for us. We are responsible for our actions. So people-especially the younger generation--need to be very careful especially where safe sex is concerned.

  Salman Ahmad

  Sex, Fighting, People

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

  Magic Johnson

  Hug, Meals, Aids Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

  William J. Clinton

  Fighting, Medicine, Hiv

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• Did you know a child is orphaned by AIDS every 15 seconds. Millions of children are going it alone. Missing their childhood. Missing their mother. Missing their father. AIDS is devastating families around the globe. Children are missing your support. Unite for children. Unite against AIDS.

  Danny Glover

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Views, Alcohol, Drug

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The fight against HIV/AIDS requires leadership from all parts of government - and it needs to go right to the top. AIDS is far more than a health crisis. It is a threat to development itself.

  Kofi Annan

  Fighting, Government, Hiv

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Dec 01, 2016

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• Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.

  Edward de Bono

  Compassion, People, Together

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• Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that education even more. Being part of a school environment will prepare them for the future, while helping to remove the stigma and discrimination unfortunately associated with AIDS.

  Harry Belafonte

  Children, School, Fighting

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• That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Fighting, Reality, Pandemics

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• The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

  Al Gore

  War, Heart, Numbers

  "U.S. steps up global fight against AIDS" by John King, Richard Roth and Steve Salvatore, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2000.

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• We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Fighting, Together, Viruses

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• We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, Hiv, Aids Day

  "Fighting Stigma: Why the Depiction of Illness Matters" by David M. Kirby, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2016.

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• We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

  Bob Geldof

  Spring, War, Trying

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• I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Country, Baby, Fighting

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

  Magic Johnson

  People, Hiv, Aids Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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