Anderson Cooper Quotes

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.

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

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

I run a modest-sized laboratory that's looking specifically at what we call 'the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.'

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.

I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

HIV does not make people dangerous to be with. So you can shake their hands and give them a hug. Heaven knows they need it.

If you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn't get AIDS probably, that's bottom line...those are the facts.

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

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

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're not doing needles and you're not gay, you won't get AIDS, probably.

It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

There's not any religion or any culture or any race or any generation that cannot get AIDS or HIV. We all have to take responsibility for ourselves and get tested to know our status, and spread the word.

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

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

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

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