“We cannot afford to ignore HIV/AIDS. We can only ignore this battle at the cost of being regarded by future generations of Pacific Islanders as lacking the will, the foresight, the understanding to tackle this issue, which threatens our very future.”

Address to the Pan Pacific HIV/AIDS Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, October 2005

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