Letitia James Quotes

Too many people have already lost their lives to HIV and AIDS, and the more celebrities who can bring attention to the issue, the better.

HIV/AIDS is a very big problem in my country South Africa, so I hope to stand as an advocate for that.

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.

A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.

I am so honoured to be supporting the Elton John AIDS Foundation and their mission making London and our global cities AIDS-free.

We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in the previous two decades, if it were not already my whole life-style! In the early eighties, we knew very little about this peculiar disease.

I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.

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

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and 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.

The AIDS epidemic began before I was born - I've never known a world without it. And yet, despite its omnipresence in our lives, there remains a pervasive silence around AIDS among young people, particularly young women.

AIDS is a very, very, very vicious disease, particularly in the black community.

I want to be incredibly clear: The United States stands for a public health approach to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

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

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

As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.

I think AIDS can be won. I think we can win this fight. It is winnable. But it means behavior change.

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.

Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in our heart for home-based health care.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.

From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had happened, for starters, and so many people in the arts died or were affected.