Jim Kolbe: “We are facing a pandemic in this world in HIV/AIDS unlike anything that any of us in our lifetimes have experienced…”

“We are facing a pandemic in this world in HIV/AIDS unlike anything that any of us in our lifetimes have experienced, unlike any kind of plague that has beset this world in the last several hundred years. We need to be focused on that. We need to understand that it is a global issue. It is not just one here in the United States. It is not just one in Africa. We are now seeing it in Haiti and the Caribbean. We are seeing it in South Asia. We are seeing it in the Central Asian republics. We are seeing it in the Caucasuses and we are beginning to see it in Southern China. This epidemic is spreading around the world, and we need to apply the proper resources to it.”