Colin Salmon Quotes

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

HIV AIDS is a preventable disease and should never be a source of shame!

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There is no shame in being tested for AIDS. It’s an important thing.

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected mostly young gay men - it was actually called GRID for a short period of time: Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Syndrome - and people thought it actually might be recreational drugs or other types of toxins.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.

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

I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

To tell you the truth, I'm shocked, as I travel across this country, at how little people know or don't want to know about HIV/AIDS. There are a lot of people who don't know that HIV is one thing and AIDS is another. Those people just think it's one big old alphabet of a disease.

Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.

Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.

I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

If you have HIV, I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of. Get treatment and don't think that you're out of options or resources because you're not.

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives unofficial license to treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk unlike other citizens.

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of calculating how many lives he has saved. No advertising agency could have invented a better, or more effective, role model.