Aids Epidemic Quotes

• The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.

  Elton John

  Hate, Ignorance, Past

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• On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Epidemics, People

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• The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?

  Kofi Annan

  Fighting, Epidemics, Sick

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• I think racism is a bottom-line AIDS issue. And I think homophobia is a bottom-line AIDS issue, and sexism and class issues and all of this. I think that we are not going to solve the AIDS epidemic unless we deal with these issues, and vice versa.

  Ann Northrop

  Thinking, Epidemics, Class

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• I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that... it was complete chaos of life, and then this horrific non-response from the powers that be. There was a lot of misery and sadness tied up in that.

  Kelly Reichardt

  New York, Moving, Sadness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Hate, War

  States of Desire: Travels in Gay America "Afterword - AIDS: An American Epidemic" (1986)

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• How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.

  Bill Gates

  Epidemics, World, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Do we now fight for the kind of passionate belief that I have about sexuality, about the importance of the erotic, of people actually getting to fulfill desire and not be punished because they have it? No, we're nowhere near close to that. We're dealing with an AIDS epidemic that continues out of control globally and in this country, NO, THIS IS NOT the movement that I am fighting to create. Has it succeeded in places that are very significant? Yes it has - and it would be foolish to say that those things don't matter.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Country, Fighting, Epidemics

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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.

  Morgan Fairchild

  Epidemics, People, Nerd

  "Live From" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. January 27, 2005.

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• When I first came up, the whole AIDS epidemic was starting, and the gay community that I experienced from the beginning of my career was mostly - and overwhelmingly - concerned with staying alive. And, also, I felt really aware of the preciousness of life and time. The gay community and people who were HIV-positive were treated so badly, and I was very disturbed by things. But I also saw a lot of love and connection in the gay community at that time.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gay, Epidemics, Careers

  "The Unapologetic Madonna Interview: The Queen Of Pop On Grindr, Song Leaks, Her Kids, And More". Interview with Dan Avery, www.newnownext.com. March 10, 2015.

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• Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.

  Josh Ross

  Wall, Kids, Makeup

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• The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.

  Peter Piot

  Reality, Epidemics, Effort

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• You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Epidemics, Generosity

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.

  Kevin Sessums

  Loss, Thinking, Epidemics

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

  Charles Rangel

  Fighting, Epidemics, Justice

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• Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step.

  Laura Mullen

  Cancer, Thinking, Epidemics

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.

  Ashley Judd

  Believe, Condom Use, Epidemics

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• We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic came along that so many would die, because it was gay people dying. And what emerged was a grassroots movement that developed, and succeeded in getting things done. The pinpointing of that movement evolved into the changes that we have today.

  Todd Haynes

  Baby, Gay, Epidemics

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Country, New York, Warrior

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• China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

  Bill Gates

  Player, Epidemics, Growth

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• The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.

  David Foreman

  Epidemics, Population, Development

  "Are There Just too Many People in the World?" by Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2008.

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• 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.

  David Mixner

  Home, Heart, Epidemics

  "Millions of Lives Will Be Changed By Home Health Care Cuts" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2010.

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• I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

  Michael Specter

  Writing, Epidemics, Medicine

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• There's a huge AIDS epidemic in Africa, and one of Bad Boy's plans this year is to give more awareness to that. We're gonna be doing a big charity concert helping to save some of the brothers and sisters in Africa.

  Puff Daddy

  Brother, Boys, Epidemics

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