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"It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe."
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"Anticipate charity by preventing poverty."

"Most of the deaths before seventy years old in our world, could actually be prevented if the various individuals had only treated their lives with more caution and sense of value."

"The wisest investments are made in good health intervention activities."

"The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility."

"Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead."

"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped."

"It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe."
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"It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late."

"Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors."

"The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet."

"That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere."

"They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon."

"AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases."

"One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation."

"I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution."

"My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection."
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