Hiv Quote by Ruth Westheimer

When I started out, no one would talk to young people about HIV or AIDS. I looked around and radio looked like a powerful…

— Drew Pinsky

It's so self-evident that I have to live my own history, to remind people the fact that I got into radio back in the…

— Drew Pinsky

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population…

— Annie Lennox

In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent…

— Elizabeth Flock

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word…

— Ellen Barkin

Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community…

— Herbie Mann

It may be hard to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980's and because of both…

— Hillary Clinton

By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for…

— Michael Stipe

We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.

— Christine O'Donnell

We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay…

— Larry Kramer

My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was…

— Annie Lennox

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