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

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

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

We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.

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.

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.

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