AIDS Quotes

Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.

If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids.

If you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn't get AIDS probably, that's bottom line...those are the facts.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

Don't do cocaine. Don't race trains. And avoid AIDS situations.

I went on French television for 20 minutes. It was very embarrassing to have to say, 'I'm not dead. I'm well. I'm not ill, and I don't have AIDS.' I hated doing it, because it was so insulting to those who really did have AIDS.

Responsible moral behavior is the first and best line of defense against AIDS, and is the only message we should send young people worldwide.

AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

You should only get AIDS and die, you pig.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.

I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.

When the alternative may be death, condom distribution is worth trying.

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

The AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.

It's so self-evident that I have to live my own history, to remind people the fact that I got into radio back in the early '80s was because of AIDS and HIV. It was what motivated me - that was the topic that I felt was so important that I had to talk about it, educating young people about it.

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.

We need to teach responsibility not legislate morality, because the vows of abstinence break far more easily than latex condoms.

Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.

Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of our fellow man. While most would agree that the AIDS orphan or the transfusion victim or the wronged wife contracted the disease through no fault of their own, it has too often been easy for some to point to the unfaithful husband or the promiscuous youth or the gay man and say This is your fault. You have sinned. I don't think that's a satisfactory response. My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.

Unfortunately, infectious diseases don’t pay much attention to budget cycles.

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.