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It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

I wish we could have state-of-the-art hospitals in every corner of the earth... but realistically, it's going to be a while before that can happen. But we can immunise every kid on earth, and we can prevent these diseases. It's only a matter of political will, a little bit of money and some systems to do it.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

If we vaccinate well, if we increase those vaccination rates, we can stop measles just as we stopped it before.

New vaccines are being developed all the time, which could save many more lives and dramatically improve people's health. And this goes beyond the traditional burden of childhood infectious diseases.

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.

It will be impossible for us to eradicate HIV as long as any corner of the world is cut off from the education and services that we know helps stop the spread of this disease.

Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.

The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we?