Anthony Fauci Quotes

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

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

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.

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

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.

Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels.

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

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

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

My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in the previous two decades, if it were not already my whole life-style! In the early eighties, we knew very little about this peculiar disease.

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

There are so many different varieties of HIV out there.

AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.

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

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.

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

As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted.

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

Your medical documents will say Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome that is AIDS. What that means you have got this challenge of immune deficiency. Alright what causes immune deficiency? HIV. Alright. Is that all that causes immune deficiency? The medical textbooks will say there are other things that cause immune deficiency. There is also genetic immune deficiency that is a different phenomenon.

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.

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.

When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease.

There are a number of candidate vaccines that are in development for HIV/AIDS.