Hiv Quotes

• The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

  Ashley Judd

  Girl, Empowering, Empowerment

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• People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

  Elton John

  Sadness, People, Political

  "Elton John: 'There's A Lot Of Hate In The World'". Interview With Dotson Rader, parade.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

  Ralph Fiennes

  Fighting, Keys, People

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• HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

  Princess Diana

  Kissing, Hands, People

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• Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

  Ryan White

  Education, Lying, Aids Day

  "The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945" by Steven M. Gillon, (p. 322), January 1, 2012.

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• AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

  William J. Clinton

  Fighting, Medicine, Aids Day

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• Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.

  Edward de Bono

  Compassion, People, Together

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

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Artist, Scary, Aids Day

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

  Meir Kahane

  Political, Doe, World

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• Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness

  Nelson Mandela

  Giving, Way, Publicity

  "Mandela at Sunset" by Andrew Meldrum, progressive.org. October 2007.

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• In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Time, Art

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• 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.

  Annie Lennox

  Gay, Thinking, Drug

  "Question time: Annie Lennox". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leader, Example, Spheres

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

  Emma Thompson

  Important, Different, Levels

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• I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Country, Baby, Fighting

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• That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Fighting, Reality, Pandemics

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• I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Mother, Children, Father

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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, Aids Epidemic, Epidemics

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• We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, Aids Day, World

  "Fighting Stigma: Why the Depiction of Illness Matters" by David M. Kirby, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2016.

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• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  Cancer, People, Giving

  "Mandela's son dies of AIDS at 54", www.cnn.com. January 7, 2005.

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• Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Real, Voice, Differences

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• I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

  Harvey Fierstein

  Couple, Years, People

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• My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Sex, Character, Play

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• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Country, Children, Commitment

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

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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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