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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.

We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

I think AIDS can be won. I think we can win this fight. It is winnable. But it means behavior change.

As long as we do not know how the cell works, we don't know the kind of havoc the AIDS virus creates in the cell.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

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.

I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.

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.