There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who dont have the advantages that we have.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.