"The
capacity to treat isn't so much gated by drug prices
now as by personnel." Bill Gates,
on the need for funding for AIDS healthcare professionals
and facilities
"We
will not accept a Schindler's List for HIV in which
the lives of those who receive treatment are saved
and others are left behind to suffer and die." Dr Pedro Cahn, current president of the
International AIDS Society
HIV is an epidemic alive in our communities
and I will no longer be silent about this truth."
Kecia Larkin, the first openly HIV-positive
aboriginal woman in Canada
"That
conference in our view was becoming a place where
you couldn't have a rational discussion."
Tony Clement, federal Minister of Health, responding
to critics of the government's silence during the
conference
"It's
just profoundly inappropriate and I think it's a
measure of the government's commitment to [fighting]
the disease." Stephen Lewis, UN Special
Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa