There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold and we call that an epidemic threshold.

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