Annie Lennox Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

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

There are so many different varieties of HIV out there.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

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.

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.

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.

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

An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.

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

Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is contracted - until Magic Johnson came out. I'd stereotyped it, thinking it was a gay disease, a white man's disease.