World Aids Day Quotes

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

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

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

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

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don’t give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

You can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.

I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the ’80s. When it’s that close to you, you can’t really deny it, and you can’t run from it.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

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

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it’s up to the politicians to create the “comprehensive strategies” to better treat the disease.

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.