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- The United States performed the greatest act of heroism since it jumped into World War II. When the history books are written, they will show that millions of people owe their lives to the Yankee tax dollar, to just a fraction of an aid budget that is itself less than 1 percent of the federal budget.
- The push for a cure might seem even less urgent now that antiretroviral drugs have turned H.I.V. infection from a near-certain death sentence to a chronic disease for many people. But the drugs are not available to everyone, and they do not eliminate the infection.
- It was like throwing a lighted match into a gasoline-filled room.