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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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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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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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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We are entering a new phase in the global response to AIDS, ... I am convinced because of political commitments, because of the money that is now increasing in a big way -- eight billion dollars (6.6 billion euros) this year -- that we are starting to see results. But in order to really reverse the tide of this epidemic we need also to focus more on children, not only adults.
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Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.
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I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact.
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Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola
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We are facing here a crisis that is unprecedented.