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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What we are seeing are pockets of rising and quite strong levels of infection originally among people who participated in sharing needles, drug use, and sex workers. But what we know from the experience all over the world is, it's spreading outside these groups.
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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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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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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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People are starting later with their first sexual intercourse, they are having fewer partners, there's more condom use.
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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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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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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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We are facing here a crisis that is unprecedented.
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Many countries in East Asia and the Pacific face a potentially explosive increase in new HIV infections. The only way to prevent this is to move quickly to population-wide access to the full range of life-saving services.
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Now we have Kenya, several of the Caribbean countries and Zimbabwe with a decline.
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Twenty-five years into this (AIDS) epidemic, it's ironic that there's never been any specific attention for children and AIDS. Yet every minute a child dies because of AIDS,