“To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn’t require a visa.”
“I have serious hearing loss. I’m challenged if I don’t have my hearing aids in.”
“Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.”
“Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas.”
“In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available – AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.”
“Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.”
“In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.”
“In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.”
“The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.”
“AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.”
“The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.”
“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.”
“In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.”
“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.”
“The radical right is so homophobic that they’re blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.”
“AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.”
“African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.”
“I think we all realize that anyone can – and has – gotten AIDS. So there’s obviously still a lot to be done.”
“AIDS is a shared truth – it’s not selective in its wrath.”
“As long as we do not know how the cell works, we don’t know the kind of havoc the AIDS virus creates in the cell.”
“George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.”
“Black people do not have AIDS because AIDS is a ‘black disease’; black people are getting AIDS because most of them are immoral.”
“I’m in awe of the AIDS workers in Africa who teach there, year in and year out.”
“AIDS is a plague – numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health – though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.”
“AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.”
“You can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.”
“Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.”
“The AIDS virus is not more powerful than God.”
“If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that’s not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It’s about who you are.”
“AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.”
“Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.”
“My son has died of AIDS.”
“I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.”
“If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.”
“The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it’s a sexually transmitted disease.”
“AIDS is the revenge of the rain forest.”
“The ’50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the ’60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.”
“This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don’t get it.”
“I’d worked for, during one period, for a PR firm, and for a while Rock Hudson was a client of ours, so I knew him well, and I knew when he had AIDS, that he had AIDS, but I would not write about that.”
“I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.”
“I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.”
“On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.”
“Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.”
“The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.”
“The music aids the message, it’s there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.”
“Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.”
“Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi’s sarcoma.”
“India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.”
“To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.”
“The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.”
“I’m grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.”
“AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.”
“HIV’s never been proven to cause AIDS. HIV ain’t ever killed anybody.”
“I can cure AIDS, and I will.”
“AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.”
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