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.

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

I'm not an austere person.

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.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

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