HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
Those who are trying to remain healthy with HIV/AIDS are in the most vulnerable period of their lives; that's no time to leave them without access to care.
I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.
AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
To tell you the truth, I'm shocked, as I travel across this country, at how little people know or don't want to know about HIV/AIDS. There are a lot of people who don't know that HIV is one thing and AIDS is another. Those people just think it's one big old alphabet of a disease.
AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.
It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get.
I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.