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.

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

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

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

That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

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