Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and care for those affected -- can make us winners.

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

I don't think there can ever be too many messages about AIDS. If you stop the education process, then people are going to think the problem is all over and done with. They'll think that it's OK to go and have sex again. Education is essential, especially among young people.

Today, hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients are under medical treatment, which is a great advancement. But it makes some people reckless.

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

This is AIDS. AIDS is as real as an egg.

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House, make no mistake about it.

To tell you the truth, I'm shocked, as I travel across this country, at how little people know or don't want to know about HIV/AIDS. There are a lot of people who don't know that HIV is one thing and AIDS is another. Those people just think it's one big old alphabet of a disease.

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

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

HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue.

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.

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

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

When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

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

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done.

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

When the alternative may be death, condom distribution is worth trying.

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.

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

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.

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