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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We all need to begin thinking out of the box. Stopping the AIDS epidemic is going to require more than just a medical approach.
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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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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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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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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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The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.
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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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Our number one concern is to make the money work.
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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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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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We are on very thin ice here. AIDS has made a mess of Africa's health care systems, and none of the factors that created the AIDS disaster have gone away. But with bird flu, we could be looking at things getting worse in a matter of months, not decades.
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Every one of these new HIV infections represents a prevention failure -- our collective failure,
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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.