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.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.

Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.

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

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.'

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness

As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off.

Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.

If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs-free future in the U.K.

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

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.

We never got rid of HIV but we have great treatments for it, we never got rid of bacterial infections but we've got antibiotics.

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

In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent killer.

I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

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.

When I started the radio program in 1981, not many people were talking about sexuality. Not many people were talking about AIDS or HIV.

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 think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now.

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.

I think what I want to learn more than anything... is that, I've got HIV and it's OK, like. That's what I want to learn more than anything.

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

I never - I mean, I never saw any doctor's report saying I was HIV positive. I never had a doctor explain to me and show me what was going on.

I am still haunted by the memory of my Ugandan friends dying from HIV years ago because high prices kept the medicines they needed out of reach.

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.

I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions.

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted.

If you have HIV, I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of. Get treatment and don't think that you're out of options or resources because you're not.

The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

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.

Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.

When I started out, no one would talk to young people about HIV or AIDS. I looked around and radio looked like a powerful way to shape culture in a healthy way.

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