Hiv Quotes

• The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

  Ashley Judd

  Girl, Empowering, Empowerment

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• People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

  Elton John

  Sadness, People, Political

  "Elton John: 'There's A Lot Of Hate In The World'". Interview With Dotson Rader, parade.com. February 17, 2010.

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• 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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• As a new mother, I want to give my children the best start in life but millions of children affected with AIDS don't live with such certainty. We can all do something to give them a future worth living for. We can make a difference in a child's life by joining with UNICEF to ensure that mothers and children are given the treatment that they deserve, in order to live a life free from HIV and AIDS.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Mother, Children, Order

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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, Needs

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Dec 01, 2016

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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 Peck

  People, Drug, Infection

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

  Douglas Wilson

  People, Design, Aids

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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

  Different, Stories, Disease

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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 Buthelezi

  Country, Challenges, Aids

  "Mbeki vows to step up AIDS fight". www.cnn.com. February 8, 2002.

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• People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.

  Greg Louganis

  Moving, Years, People

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• At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

  Paul Farmer

  Challenges, Different, Haiti

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• I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

  Luc Montagnier

  Thinking, Weight, Should

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• I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

  Bruce Davison

  Two, People, Five

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• Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.

  Serge Lang

  Blood, Aids, Blood Transfusion

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.618, Springer Science & Business Media

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• 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

  Children, Receiving, Care

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• Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

  Serge Lang

  Drug Use, Disease, Causes

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.622, Springer Science & Business Media

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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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• There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

  Serge Lang

  Negative, Disease, Defining

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

  Serge Lang

  Viruses, Screening, Transmission

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.618, Springer Science & Business Media

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• It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

  Philip E. Berger

  Fun, Mean, Disease

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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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• What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more education and information, using schools and other sites; more protection for girls, orphaned children and young women;and more partnerships with people with HIV and AIDS.

  Carol Bellamy

  Girl, Children, School

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• Every minute of every day, a child under 15 is infected with HIV - the overwhelming majority of children under 15 who are HIV-positive get infected through their mothers at birth. Without treatment, half of these children die before they reach their second birthday.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Mother, Children, Fighting

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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 Chan

  Country, Aids Day, Disease

  "Interview with Dr. Margaret Chan". "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. April 16, 2007.

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