Hiv Quotes - Page 5

• My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Sex, Character, Play

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• I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Mother, Children, Father

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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, Aids Day

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• In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Time, Art

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• The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

  Emma Thompson

  Important, Different, Levels

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• There's a huge AIDS epidemic in Africa, and one of Bad Boy's plans this year is to give more awareness to that. We're gonna be doing a big charity concert helping to save some of the brothers and sisters in Africa.

  Puff Daddy

  Brother, Boys, Epidemics

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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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• I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

  Harvey Fierstein

  Couple, Years, People

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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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• For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity and pride. Every woman who has to sell her life for sex we condemn to a lifetime in prison. For every moment we remain silent, we conspire against our women. For every woman infected by HIV, we destroy a generation.

  Nelson Mandela

  Girl, Sex, Pride

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from May 11, 2017

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• HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue.

  Kofi Annan

  Issues, Development, Aids

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's not any religion or any culture or any race or any generation that cannot get AIDS or HIV. We all have to take responsibility for ourselves and get tested to know our status, and spread the word.

  Rihanna

  Responsibility, Race, Generations

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• And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's based on sexual transmission. And it's still shame-based. And until people feel strong enough and feel loved enough to actually open up and say, listen, I'm HIV-positive, then we are facing an uphill battle.

  Elton John

  Strong, Years, People

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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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 Ellis

  Knowing, Easy, Things To Do

  Source: www.ebony.com

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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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• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, People, Dying

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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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• 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 Lomborg

  Cutting, Water, Use

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Groups, Viruses, Doe

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• 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 Montagnier

  Viruses, Week, Immune System

  Interview with Kit Melamed, maisonneuve.org. 2004.

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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

  Team, Dollars, World

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

  Marlee Matlin

  Reading, Voice, Quality

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• We need money to scale up the services that bring medicine to mothers. The United States government's doing that. There's a global fund that's providing money. mothers2mothers provides for mothers who come in who don't have education, who don't have support. mothers2mothers employs mothers with HIV, mothers who were patients recently in the very same facilities. We take those mothers who were patients who've had their babies, we bring them back, we train them, we pay them, to be health care professionals.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Baby, Government

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• The number of people with HIV receiving Medicare benefits has grown over time, reflecting growth in the size of the of the HIV positive population in the U.S. but also an increased lifespan for people with HIV due to antiretroviral medicines and other treatment advances.

  David Mixner

  Medicine, Numbers, People

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