quotations about AIDS
There aren't a lot of folks who continue to worry and be concerned about HIV and AIDS because of all the advances in medicine and policies. But sadly, AIDS is still here. The same groups of people who were stigmatized and were at highest risk then are stigmatized and at high risk now.
BETSY SHALLY-JENSEN
"Northampton poet laureate Patrick Donnelly, longtime HIV survivor, organizes 'Poets Respond to AIDS' benefit", Mass Live, March 8, 2016
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's.
SUSAN SONTAG
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
It would seem that we have the tools we need to end the epidemic. Yet more than 1.5 million people around the globe become infected with HIV each year and another one million die of AIDS. The logistics of getting everyone who is HIV positive into care, and ensuring that they not only have access to medicine, but also adhere to their treatment plans, are complicated, especially in regions of the world where health care resources are limited.
KENNETH H. MAYER
"New tools to fight AIDS", Boston Globe, February 20, 2016
AIDS is spreading at far different rates in different world regions. New HIV cases are slowly declining in North America. However, the infection is still at epidemic levels in Africa, and HIV incidence there is rising sharply.
CHARLES ZASTROW
Empowerment Series: Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare
AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh's charioteers.
JERRY FALWELL
attributed, Grand Theft Jesus