"I feel angry, I feel distressed, I feel helpless - to live in a world where we have the means, we have the resources, to be able to help all these patients - what is lacking is the political will."
                     Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, 2003


"The condition is medical. The solution is political."
                     Bob Geldof, musician, Great Britian


"AIDS is essentially a crisis of governance, of what governments do and do not do to and for their people – we have the drugs to treat HIV infection, we have the tools to confront the risks that drive HIV transmission and prevent infection itself – what we don’t have is national political will necessary to scale-up our response. We have demanded too little from our leaders, excused far too much."
                    Gregg Gonsalves, speech at the 2006 Toronto AIDS Conference


"While countries go to war to fight terrorism, governments blindly ignore the biggest terrorist threat on earth today, which is clearly HIV/AIDS."            
                                    Anna, Spain, Talking Point, BBC News UK, 2003