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.

At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

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

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.