HIV Quotes

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it. (Diana, Princess of Wales)
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball. View quote
Magic Johnson
I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway. View quote
Dennis Rodman
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues. View quote
David Geffen
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. View quote
Philip Emeagwali
The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer. View quote
Miriam Makeba
Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
It's 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. Spin Magazine, Vol. 10 No.4, 1994. View quote
Kary Mullis
A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community. View quote
Emma Thompson
Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn't been able to solve any of our basic problems, for example the environmental pollution or the problems with HIV and AIDS. This is the worst disease of our time, and scientists are lost. I believe that many people are disappointed with science when the answers we need are not delivered. View quote
Björn Ulvaeus
If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy. (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala)
Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS. View quote
Douglas Wilson
Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who live in areas with low maternal mortality. View quote
Emily Oster
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. View quote
Annie Lennox
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. View quote
Tara Reid
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.' View quote
Brande Roderick
I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging. View quote
Chad Lowe
All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV. View quote
David Mixner
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. View quote
Greg Louganis
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. View quote
Jeremiah Wright
I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV. (Luc Montagnier)
When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy. View quote
Nate Mendel
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. View quote
Nate Mendel
How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk? View quote
Nate Mendel
Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected. View quote
Philip Emeagwali