We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.
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 Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.
HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.
AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.
If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.
Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.
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