HIV/AIDS Support Groups Quotes

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

In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It was horrendous.

I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.

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

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.

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.

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.

I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?