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" I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV. "

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" Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him. "

" AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus. "

" It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe. "

" It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess. "

" 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. "

" Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before. "

" 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. "

" Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible. "

" We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody. "

" Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus. "

" The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens. "

" 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 am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk. "