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"The
songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of
humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real."
-- India.Arie
"It's not
fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair." --
India.Arie |
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“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 HIV/AIDS, many of those women were infected by
their husbands who did not tell them” -- Bianca
Jagger | |
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As a Goodwill Ambassador for YouthAIDS, I’ve learned that the face of AIDS
is increasingly young and female. By educating young people and empowering them
to make the right choices we can stop the spread of HIV/AIDS -- Ashley
Judd The
empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS
emergency from exploding any further -- Ashley
Judd |
“Abstinence,
being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully
reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message
alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.”
-- Ashley
Judd
You
have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.
-- Ashley
Judd
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"We
must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic
drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually
eliminate the debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like AIDS.
We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic."
-- Dennis Kucinich |
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*
"Did
you know knowledge is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS. Yet millions of
children are missing an education. Missing their teachers who have died of the
disease. Missing from class as they stay home to care for their dying mothers
and fathers. Children are missing your support. Unite for Children. Unite against
AIDS." -- Jessica
Lange (UNICEF
video PSA) |
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"It
takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about
life and death and the survival of humanity." -- Barbara
Lee | |
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"I've
witnessed the total devastation of HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa... I've
met too many brave and beautiful children who are struggling to care for their
sick parents or their orphaned brothers and sisters. Many children infected with
HIV will not live to see their fifth birthday... Children suffer not only from
this virus but also the stigma, poverty and destruction that accompany it. As
a UNICEF ambassador I hope to draw more attention and funding to this crisis.
The tsunami in Asia revealed the deep compassion and generosity of people worldwide.
By working together and applying that same focus and support, we can protect a
new generation of children from suffering." --
Lucy Liu |
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“Why has there
been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it
raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.” ~ Wangari
Maathai | |
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"Let
us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way
to make it appear like a normal illness" -- Nelson
Mandela | |
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"Football
is being used as a language in that project...The vital message being communicated
to the boys and young men is about safe sex, the use of condoms and preventing
the spread of HIV/AIDS." -- Sir
Roger Moore (UNICEF
video PSA) |
"Young
people were once considered relatively safe from HIV/AIDS. “Today, their lives
and futures are at risk throughout the world because of this disease. I believe
it is young people throughout the world who offer us the greatest hope for defeating
this deadly pandemic." -- Liam
Neeson *
"The
cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all - today HIV/AIDS
is the biggest threat to this one universal objective. UNICEF needs us all to
help them change the world for children" -- Liam
Neeson (UNICEF
video PSA) | |
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*
If
condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS],
they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out
of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I
must respectfully but unequivocally disagree. -- Barack
Obama |
If
condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS],
they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out
of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I
must respectfully but unequivocally disagree. I do not accept the notion that
those who make mistakes in their lives should be given an effective death sentence.
Nor am I willing to stand by and allow those who are entirely innocent -- wives
who, because of the culture they live in, often have no power to refuse sex with
their husbands, or children who are born with the infection as a consequence of
their parent's behavior -- suffer when condoms or other measures would have kept
them from harm.
-- Barack
Obama
Like
no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes
-- to empathize with the plight of our fellow man. While most would agree that
the AIDS orphan or the transfusion victim or the wronged wife contracted the disease
through no fault of their own, it has too often been easy for some to point to
the unfaithful husband or the promiscuous youth or the gay man and say "This is
your fault. You have sinned." I don't think that's a satisfactory response. My
faith reminds me that we all are sinners.
-- Barack
Obama
"Investment
in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together."
-- Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS
"No
war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic."
-- Colin Powell
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“When
my father died of AIDS, I knew I had to do everything in my power to prevent others
from going through what he endured. I support AmFAR which provides funds for cutting
edge AIDS research so we can find a vaccine and a cure. ” -- Natasha
Richardson |
"AIDS
destroys families, decimates communities and, particularly in the poorest areas
of the world, threatens to destabilize the social, cultural, and economic fabric
of entire nations..."
-- Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious
Action Center of Reform Judaism
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*
"Knowledge
is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS. Yet millions of children are missing
an education. Missing their teachers who have died of the disease. Missing from
class as they stay home to care for their dying mothers and fathers. Children
are missing your support. Unite for Children. Unite against AIDS." --
Susan Sarandon (UNICEF
video PSA) |
|
*
"As
a new mother, I want to give my children the best start in life but millions of
children affected with AIDS don’t live with such certainty. We can all do something
to give them a future worth living for. We can make a difference in a child’s
life by joining with UNICEF to ensure that mothers and children are given the
treatment that they deserve, in order to live a life free from HIV and AIDS.”
-- Claudia Schiffer
(UNICEF
video PSA) |
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“I’m
a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people
aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the
century, which is AIDS.” -- Shakira
(UNICEF
video PSA) |
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Like
the effects of industrial pollution ... the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world
in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that
can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide
-- Susan Sontag “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 | |
"I believe that
this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation...I believe
that our children and their children, 40 or 50 years from now, are going to ask
me, what did you do while 40 million children became orphans in Africa? "
-- Rich Stearns, President of World Vision, US
*
I
think the statistics of AIDS are so terrifying, so overwhelming that it makes
you think that I can't act. But actually you can. You can write letters, you can
activate yourself and other people. You can be aware, you can educate yourself
about it and you can talk about it. And all of those things are extremely positive,
even within your group - of your family and your friends. Merely raising the issue
is a hugely important social and political act and people mustn't think that just
because they're not shifting the world slightly to the left every time they pick
up a pen. The way, I think, anything has ever really changed on this planet is
through large groups of very ordinary people saying something finally. --
Emma Thompson | |
I think it's [the
AIDS fight] the most important and most pressing one - I think it's a global emergency
and I think in a way we all have to address it and engage with it because I think
it's the biggest threat to the human race that we have ever faced.
-- Emma
Thompson
I
think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of
chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there are many causes for
acts of terrorism, what kind of society are you creating if you allow civil society
in Africa to die and create millions upon millions of orphans? Where are they
going to go? What kind of cults, what kind of militias, what's going to happen?
The accession of violence in those countries, the possibility of that, to me is
very terrifying.
-- Emma
Thompson
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