When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV.

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.

It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself.