Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

World Aids Day is both a day of remembrance and a day of hope.

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

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

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.

A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.

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.

Too many people have already lost their lives to HIV and AIDS, and the more celebrities who can bring attention to the issue, the better.

I want to be incredibly clear: The United States stands for a public health approach to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

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.

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 are so many different varieties of HIV out there.

People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.

From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had happened, for starters, and so many people in the arts died or were affected.

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.

The AIDS epidemic began before I was born - I've never known a world without it. And yet, despite its omnipresence in our lives, there remains a pervasive silence around AIDS among young people, particularly young women.

I am so honoured to be supporting the Elton John AIDS Foundation and their mission making London and our global cities AIDS-free.

HIV/AIDS is a very big problem in my country South Africa, so I hope to stand as an advocate for that.