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 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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The key to protecting the children is preventing infection in parents,
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The fastest spread of HIV is in eastern Europe, in the countries of the former Soviet Union. It is mostly driven by a heroin epidemic... Russia alone has already well over one people living with HIV.
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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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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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It is quite clear that our current global efforts remain inadequate for an epidemic that is continuing to spiral out of control.
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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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Every one of these new HIV infections represents a prevention failure -- our collective failure,
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The world needs $10 billion a year to treat those with HIV in the poor nations, to make sure that the number of new infections is going down dramatically, and to take care of orphans,
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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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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.
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There will be, for the first time, more people in their 60s and 70s than people in their 30s and 40s.
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Of people living with HIV, only one in 10 has been tested and knows that he or she is infected,
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Governments of this continent have to increase their investment in AIDS, ... And in education and health, they all have an army. I mean there are resources there. Even if you're poor it's a matter of prioritization. And I think it's not too much.