I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.