David Mixner Quotes

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

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 of people have forgotten the severity of this disease, of HIV. So I think it's important that we just talk about things like this: how we can prevent it, how we can make sure that people are safe, how they can move forward, too, if they do have HIV.

If you have HIV, I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of. Get treatment and don't think that you're out of options or resources because you're not.

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

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

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.

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.

I don't think I have HIV. I don't think that I ever had HIV. I think I had hepatitis. I got rid of the hepatitis, and since then, every single time I have tested for HIV, it has been negative. The original test was a false positive.

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

HIV changed my life, but I think I've accepted it. I don't even think about it unless someone brings it up.

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

As for being AIDS infested, I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested.

I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

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.

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

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.

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

HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

There are so many different varieties of HIV out there.

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

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.