The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

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

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.

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.