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 model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

Equity is the only acceptable goal

I'm not an austere person.

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.