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There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

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.

Because we are all human beings, we are all HIV-eligible.

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.

A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.

Some countries that I go to are still trying to deny that it's happening. In India, 2.1 million people are living with HIV AIDS. India manufactures most of the drugs that are used to cure HIV around the world, which is an amazing, amazing fact that most people don't know.

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.