Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.

Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors.

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

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.