Brande Roderick Quotes

The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.

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.

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'

AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

HIV does not make people dangerous to be with. So you can shake their hands and give them a hug. Heaven knows they need it.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

I believe UNAIDS' provocative leadership has been critical in addressing the AIDS epidemic and converting it from a death sentence to a chronic health condition.

We grew up in an era where there was a lot of fear of HIV. Everybody worried about it and everybody took precautions, and everybody knew that it was a thing that was out there. As it slowed down, it left the spotlight, people forgot.

HIV is not a gay or straight disease. It's a young people's disease, unfortunately.

I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

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!

The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.

Until everyone knows someone who has died of AIDS this prejudice and discrimination will continue.

AIDS didn’t announce itself when it arrived, and it was only after it started taking its toll that we realized our problem.

People with HIV and AIDS are nothing to be afraid of. They are people just like every single one of us, and each has a story to tell. These people should be helped, embraced, and not dismissed. We need to open our hearts and our minds to them, and we just may learn we're pretty much all the same.

Young women who come to Rise every weekend range from ages 15-19 years if they're in school and 19-24 years if they're out of school. These empowered young women talk about protecting themselves, their friends and communities and how they can educate people to help break the stigma surrounding AIDS.

I grew up in a different era. People were definitely afraid of HIV back then, but education also helped change the way we thought about the disease. That education helped my generation make smarter choices about the way we protected ourselves.

Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.