Cloud Quote by Kenneth Cole

I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many…

— Gloria Reuben

The AIDS epidemic began before I was born - I've never known a world without it. And yet, despite its omnipresence in our lives,…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Right after undergrad, I started doing low-level work on health issues in sub-Saharan Africa, and what struck me was the disconnect between how people…

— Uzodinma Iweala

In South Africa one in four women have AIDS. When you are there it is shocking. So many people are dying from the disease…

— Kristin Davis

The stigma, the fact that nobody was talking about AIDS was arguably killing more people than the virus itself. So I did an ad…

— Kenneth Cole

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

— Bill Gates

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of…

— Susan Sontag

We grew up in an era where there was a lot of fear of HIV. Everybody worried about it and everybody took precautions, and…

— Forrest Griffin

I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was…

— Yusuf Hamied

I felt that in certain situations, a lot of people were ignoring the AIDS issue.

— Marky Ramone

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

I was one of the first ones to participate in fundraisers for AIDS.

— Ruth Westheimer