Harold Brodkey Quotes

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

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

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

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.

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.

Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives unofficial license to treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk unlike other citizens.

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

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

You might get AIDS in Kenya, people have AIDS, you’ve got to be careful. I mean, the towels could have AIDS.

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.

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

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

Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we treat them ourselves: as equals. If we are going to stop the spread of HIV in our lifetime, then that is the change we need to spread.

Botswana has an incredible future if it can wrestle the HIV scenario to the ground.

Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones.

I just want to recognize, the HIV epidemic was solved by the community, the HIV advocates and activists who stood up when no one was listening and got everyone's attention.

Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables.

My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.

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.

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

I think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now.

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.

There are so many different varieties of HIV out there.