At a 10-year memorial for the genocide, he reflected, "" I believed at the time I was doing my best, but I realized after the genocide that there was more I could and should have done to sound the alarm and rally support. "" The AIDS epidemic caught the health community unprepared, and today, when the World Health Organization estimates that 39 million people have lost their lives to this disease, I'm not alone in feeling remorse and regret at not having done more earlier.