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One thing I can take credit for, along with the rest of show business, is when the red ribbons were out, we cured AIDS. Any advancements that came towards fighting AIDS were not done by scientists or doctors - it was people with little ribbons on their lapels.

— Gilbert Gottfried

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✓Similar Perspectives

I read a newspaper article in May 1984 which predicted that syringes would one day be a major cause of the transmission of HIV. It was what I had been waiting for - a project that had a lot of the things that I liked: problem-solving, product design, campaigning, and being a bit of a big mouth pain-in-the-bum.

— Marc Koska

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

— Philip Emeagwali

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

— Luc Montagnier

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

— Bono

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

— Susan Sontag

We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.

— Gwen Moore

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

— Dennis Rodman

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

— Maria Mitchell

✗Opposing Perspectives

The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.

— Anthony Fauci