Experience Quote by Courtney Act

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

— Bill Gates

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

— Jay Ellis

There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status find it…

— Annie Lennox

The spread of HIV through contaminated blood was a tragic illustration of the risk that blood products could harbor undetectable and latent infection that's…

— Scott Gottlieb

HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize as a…

— Kwame Dawes

We live in a fear-based world where HIV stigma can prevail.

— Courtney Act

HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for…

— Margaret Chan

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

— Princess Diana

The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we…

— Loretta Devine

And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's based on…

— Elton John

Knowledge is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS. Yet millions of children are missing an education. Missing their teachers who have died…

— Susan Sarandon

This journey of education and breaking stigma around HIV is something that will have a legacy everlasting.

— Gareth Thomas