#aids

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#boundaries #hiv

One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#africa #aids #assault #attacks #behaviour

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#disease #pandemic

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#aids #amendment #amendment rights #arise #country

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. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#bits #died #file #friends #had

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. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#always #appear #because #cancer #come

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#child #give #laughter #love #peace

My son has died of AIDS. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#died #son

Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#active #aids #awareness #because #breast cancer

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

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#get #hope #i #pretty #scary