Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS. . . There's astounding conditions but what I was left with. . . was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets
What kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he goes and catches HIV.
One out of four kids in Lesotho has AIDS, and the idea of the charity is to help the children first fight the stigma of living with HIV and then teach them how to live with it and survive and get an education so all these children can have a normal life. When you're changing the life of so many kids - one out of four is a big number - you change the direction of an entire nation.
We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.
Now people with HIV are no longer dying, but living many years - we are around longer to potentially affect others.
When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.
I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.
I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.
I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.
I have friends of mine who have died of AIDS and many of those friends. . . did not tell me until the very end. . . because they felt that there was a stigma, a taboo, attached to it. . . now we have more women infected with HIVAIDS, many of those women were infected by their husbands who did not tell them
The United States has put more money on HIV, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis than any country in the world and it's having an impact real quick.
HIVAIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.
I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.
I don't know how many [South Africans] with HIV would want to take anti-retrovirals.
The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.
If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.
It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.
Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.
We must walk in solidarity with those who are living with HIVAIDS and with those at risk. As witnesses of Christ, we are called to respect the dignity of each person and to promote healthy living - physically, spiritually, morally and psychologically - through prevention and treatment
This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.