We Don't Know Why, But There Are

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.

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.

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.

We Did Not Purify... We Saw Some Particles But They Did Not Have The Morphology [shape] Typical Of Retroviruses. They Were Very Different... What We Did Not Have, As I Have Always Recognized It, Is That It Was Truly The Cause Of Aids.