Anthony Fauci Quotes

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV.

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.

It will be impossible for us to eradicate HIV as long as any corner of the world is cut off from the education and services that we know helps stop the spread of this disease.

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

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

To tell you the truth, I'm shocked, as I travel across this country, at how little people know or don't want to know about HIV/AIDS. There are a lot of people who don't know that HIV is one thing and AIDS is another. Those people just think it's one big old alphabet of a disease.

Technology has aided in serious advancements so that HIV detection tests now have near-perfect results. And those tests can detect HIV in the blood an average of nine to 11 days post-infection.

AIDS is a very, very, very vicious disease, particularly in the black community.

When you get your viral load down to zero, you reduce the risk of transmission of HIV by 90 percent.

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.

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.

The number of people with HIV receiving Medicare benefits has grown over time, reflecting growth in the size of the of the HIV positive population in the U.S. but also an increased lifespan for people with HIV due to antiretroviral medicines and other treatment advances.

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.

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.

A terrible additional worry was the emergence of AIDS. I know I wasn't the only friend of George's who worried about him during that uncertain, frightening period.

I am so honoured to be supporting the Elton John AIDS Foundation and their mission making London and our global cities AIDS-free.

HIV's never been proven to cause AIDS. HIV ain't ever killed anybody.

Today, hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients are under medical treatment, which is a great advancement. But it makes some people reckless.

Every minute of every day, a child under 15 is infected with HIV - the overwhelming majority of children under 15 who are HIV-positive get infected through their mothers at birth. Without treatment, half of these children die before they reach their second birthday.

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.