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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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.
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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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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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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,
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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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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.