The emergence of the disease in the 1980s kind of exploited this perfect ecology. You saw a classic environment for the spread of this disease.

To us, this is a business.

We are okay with what Epson is doing.

The status quo. Both countries have grossly underestimated rates of infection, both have an increasing sex trade, and both have done nothing to stop the spread of AIDS. These are recipes for disaster.

Students lead the discussion in the classes. . . . They take the discussions in directions you wouldn't expect.

AIDS has always been a political disease and it was absolutely anathema to talk about AIDS during the Reagan administration. Applications to study AIDS in the early 80s were buried. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was barred from making public statements about AIDS until 1986.

Those other diseases didn't simply go away. They tended to be buried in at-risk populations who were the poorest and most marginalized.

I stabbed my mother and she is dead.

The whole situation with Epson, the patent issue... we have to be careful. We believe our products don't infringe its patents. We have our own patents.