Forrest Griffin Quotes

I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

We grew up in an era where there was a lot of fear of HIV. Everybody worried about it and everybody took precautions, and everybody knew that it was a thing that was out there. As it slowed down, it left the spotlight, people forgot.

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!

HIV AIDS is a preventable disease and should never be a source of shame!

You can’t do anything about HIV-AIDS unless you are willing to talk about condoms.

Young women who come to Rise every weekend range from ages 15-19 years if they're in school and 19-24 years if they're out of school. These empowered young women talk about protecting themselves, their friends and communities and how they can educate people to help break the stigma surrounding AIDS.

The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

The less we think or know about hygiene, the less we are predisposed to sickness.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

HIV is not a gay or straight disease. It's a young people's disease, unfortunately.

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.

Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.

It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get.

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.

AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.

Because we are all human beings, we are all HIV-eligible.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.