David Furnish Quotes

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

When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV.

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

I never - I mean, I never saw any doctor's report saying I was HIV positive. I never had a doctor explain to me and show me what was going on.

A lot of people have forgotten the severity of this disease, of HIV. So I think it's important that we just talk about things like this: how we can prevent it, how we can make sure that people are safe, how they can move forward, too, if they do have HIV.

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we treat them ourselves: as equals. If we are going to stop the spread of HIV in our lifetime, then that is the change we need to spread.

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

Botswana has an incredible future if it can wrestle the HIV scenario to the ground.

If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs-free future in the U.K.

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.

Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know.

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.

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.

It will be impossible for us to eradicate HIV as long as any corner of the world is cut off from the education and services that we know helps stop the spread of this disease.

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

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.

I don't think I have HIV. I don't think that I ever had HIV. I think I had hepatitis. I got rid of the hepatitis, and since then, every single time I have tested for HIV, it has been negative. The original test was a false positive.

HIV's never been proven to cause AIDS. HIV ain't ever killed anybody.

Today, hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients are under medical treatment, which is a great advancement. But it makes some people reckless.

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

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

I think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now.