Marc Wallice Quotes

You can’t have a campaign against AIDS that emphasizes global abstinence.

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

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

Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know.

I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.

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

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.

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

I grew up in a different era. People were definitely afraid of HIV back then, but education also helped change the way we thought about the disease. That education helped my generation make smarter choices about the way we protected ourselves.

Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic calling. Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.

With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.

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.

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

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.

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.

In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.

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.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

Responsible moral behavior is the first and best line of defense against AIDS, and is the only message we should send young people worldwide.

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

Everyone should be tested. Whenever they have a check-up, they should test for HIV, because if we can get to a point in our society where everyone is automatically tested, nobody will fall through the net.