Peter Piot
Peter Piot
Baron Peter Piot, MD, PhD FRCP FMedSciis a Belgian microbiologist known for his research into Ebola and AIDS. After helping discover the Ebola virus in 1976 and leading efforts to contain the first-ever recorded Ebola epidemic that same year, Piot became a pioneering researcher into AIDS. He has held key positions in the United Nations and World Health Organization involving AIDS research. He has also served as a professor at several universities worldwide...
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In the '80s, he was truly a visionary at a time when it was absolutely not clear how devastating and epidemic AIDS would become, ... He pulled off what he called a global response both in developing and developed countries.
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I think in that sense Indonesia could be a stellar example for the Muslim world,
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In Botswana, for example, two years ago about 36 percent of adults were HIV-positive, ... Today this is 39 percent, nearly 40 percent of all adults.
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That's a breakthrough and that's particularly important for young people because they look at them as role models and helps raise public awareness.
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Now we have Kenya, several of the Caribbean countries and Zimbabwe with a decline.
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Every one of these new HIV infections represents a prevention failure -- our collective failure,
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The number of people living with HIV globally has reached its highest level ever at an estimated 40.3 million people.
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People are starting later with their first sexual intercourse, they are having fewer partners, there's more condom use.
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Commitment is vital, ... Resolutions will help, but the world must do more than talk about this epidemic. We must end it.
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Our number one concern is to make the money work.
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AIDS continues to tear apart families and communities, leaving behind 15 million orphans and robbing countries of their future.
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The global response to AIDS has gained real momentum in the past decade, so much so that for the first time we can hope to get ahead of the epidemic.
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over the past four years two disquieting facts become evident: One is that AIDS is an unprecedented global crisis. There is simply no other example of that kind.
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It's one of the greatest injustices in the world today, ... Without massive treatment programs there won't be people left in the most affected countries to organize prevention programs, to teach in the schools, to organize the farms, to lead the country.