Morgan Fairchild Quotes

Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of calculating how many lives he has saved. No advertising agency could have invented a better, or more effective, role model.

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.

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

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

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

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

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.

Being part of the Queen story and knowing what Freddie Mercury went through before he died of AIDS has really shown me how far we've come in fighting this disease.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.

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.

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

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.

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

I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.

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

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

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.