These AIDS quotes will inspire you. Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging AIDS quotes, AIDS sayings, and AIDS proverbs.
Best AIDS Quotes
- “Wouldn’t it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?” ~ Elayne Boosler
- “Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.” ~ Peter Piot
- “Every minute of every day, a child under 15 is infected with HIV – the overwhelming majority of children under 15 who are HIV-positive get infected through their mothers at birth. Without treatment, half of these children die before they reach their second birthday.” ~ Gabriel Byrne
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“We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.” ~ Chita Rivera
- “The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don’t think a character like that could exist now.” ~ Sylvia Kristel
- “I’m not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.” ~ Christina Aguilera
- “AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.” ~ Sarah Polley
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“It doesn’t upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.” ~ Chuck Close
- “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.” ~ Philip Emeagwali
- “One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.” ~ Euripides
- “AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals. It is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.” ~ Jerry Falwell
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“HIV infection and AIDS is growing – but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.” ~ David Geffen
- “We’ve taken on the major health problems of the poorest – tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria – in four countries. We’ve scored some victories in the sense that we’ve cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.” ~ Paul Farmer
- “Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.” ~ Uri Geller
- “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.” ~ Thom Gunn
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“During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.” ~ Jane D. Hull
- “I believe AIDS is the most important issue we face because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.” ~ Alicia Keys
- “Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.” ~ Maria Mitchell
- “Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can’t stop to count it.” ~ Evita Peron
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“I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in ’95.” ~ Dennis Rodman
- “AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.” ~ Susan Sontag
- “To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.” ~ Baruch Spinoza
- “I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?” ~ Layne Staley
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“I don’t think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I’m not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.” ~ Elizabeth Taylor
- “I’m grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.” ~ Steven Tyler
- “But try if you can to support, whether it’s AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.” ~ Jim Valvano
- “Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.” ~ Ryan White
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“Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.” ~ Ryan White
- “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.” ~ Barbara Ehrenreich
- “We want the world to focus on children whose lives have been devastated by AIDS. The millions of children who are missing their parents; their childhood, their future but most importantly, they are missing YOU. Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.” ~ Pierce Brosnan
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“I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can’t compare hearing aids to normal hearing.” ~ Marlee Matlin
- “Stigma hurts. Because of AIDS, children are bullied, isolated and shut out of school. They are missing out on education. They are missing out on medicines. Children are missing your love, care and protection. Join me. And become a stigma buster. UNITE FOR CHILDREN UNITE AGAINST AIDS” ~ Jackie Chan
- “I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn’t around and he didn’t have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.” ~ Ed Harris
- “Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.” ~ Ashley Judd
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“If we stop exploring space, we’re going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.” ~ Corbin Bernsen
- “I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.” ~ Bernadette Peters
- “We’re concerned about AIDS inside our White House, make no mistake about it.” ~ George W. Bush
- “Did you know children are dying because of AIDS. Missing the medicines that prevent transmission from mother to child. Missing the protection from parents teachers and role models that can teach them about the danger, and keep them safe from sexual exploitation. Children are missing your support. Unite for children. Unite against AIDS.” ~ Whoopi Goldberg
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“AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.” ~ Susan Sontag
- “It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.” ~ Mike DeWine
- “AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.” ~ Mary Whitehouse
- “We have common enemies today. It’s called childhood poverty. It’s called cancer. It’s called AIDS. It’s called Parkinson’s. It’s called Muscular Dystrophy.” ~ Jerry Doyle
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“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.” ~ Marlee Matlin
- “AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.” ~ Luc Montagnier
- “This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don’t get it.” ~ Robert Mapplethorpe
- “If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won’t stop the spread of AIDS in this country.” ~ Thabo Mbeki
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“If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that’s not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It’s about who you are.” ~ Marlee Matlin
- “African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.” ~ Elijah Cummings
- “When there’s a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.” ~ Bernadette Peters
- “We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.” ~ Gwen Moore
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“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.” ~ Ice T
- “We’re looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition… doesn’t matter if it’s death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.” ~ Bob Geldof
- “AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “In today’s climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“We did not purify… We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses. They were very different… What we did not have, as I have always recognized it, is that it was truly the cause of AIDS.” ~ Luc Montagnier
- “Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.” ~ Wangari Maathai
- “I’m a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS” ~ Shakira
- “Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.” ~ Philip Emeagwali
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“The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.” ~ Armistead Maupin
- “I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war.” ~ Carol Bellamy
- “It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can’t even read.” ~ Newt Gingrich
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“God aids the valiant…both to you and to me He will give the help needed.” ~ Teresa of Avila
- “I get tested for HIV twice a year… One has to be socially aware. It’s part of being a decent human to be tested for STDs. It’s just disgusting behavior when people don’t. It’s so irresponsible.” ~ Scarlett Johansson
- “[Duesberg] is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is absolutely correct that the virus cultured in the laboratory may not be the cause of AIDS.” ~ Walter Gilbert
AIDS, following initial infection an individual, may not notice any symptoms or may experience a brief period of influenza-like illness.
