Hiv Quotes - Page 2

• I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

  Annie Lennox

  People, Bird, Flu

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• HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

  Annie Lennox

  Boundaries, Aids, Hiv Aids

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• We want the world to focus on children whose lives have been devastated by AIDS. The millions of children who are missing their parents; their childhood, their future but most importantly, they are missing YOU. Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Children, Real, Fighting

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• It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.

  Laura Bush

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "First Lady Winds Up West Africa Trip". www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2006.

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• I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

  Christina Aguilera

  Spiritual, Religious, People

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• When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

  Nate Mendel

  Pregnancy, Viruses, Flu

  "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. March 10, 2000.

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• I have friends of mine who have died of AIDS and many of those friends...did not tell me until the very end...because they felt that there was a stigma, a taboo, attached to it...now we have more women infected with HIV/AIDS, many of those women were infected by their husbands who did not tell them

  Bianca Jagger

  Husband, Aids, Ends

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• Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Sports, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  War, Responsibility, Men

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• The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Stupid, Mean, Government

  "The full story behind Wright’s “God Damn America” sermon". The CNN Interview, ac360.blogs.cnn.com. March 21, 2008.

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• I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Guy, Care

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• I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?

  Layne Staley

  Internet, Aids, Found

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• A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

  Emma Thompson

  Friends, New York, Gay

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• Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

  Maria Mitchell

  Aids Day, Individual, Mass

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Thinking, President, Facts

  "Liz’s Aids Odyssey". Interview With Nancy Collins, www.vanityfair.com. November 1992.

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• 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.

  Alicia Keys

  Believe, Reflection, Keys

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

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• Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

  Elayne Boosler

  Giving Money, Television, Aids

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• It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Mirrors

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• Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left with...was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Fighting, People, Dancing

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• One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Men, Epidemics, Infection

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• We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Taken, Victory

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• I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

  Paul Farmer

  Believe, Race, Class

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• In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

  Paul Farmer

  Order, Lasts, Facts

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• And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

  Elton John

  Successful, Guarantees That, Next

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• The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.

  Derek Jarman

  Christian, Men, Epidemics

  Derek Jarman (1993). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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