Peter Piot Quotations

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.

Now we have Kenya, several of the Caribbean countries and Zimbabwe with a decline.

We are facing here a crisis that is unprecedented.

I think in that sense Indonesia could be a stellar example for the Muslim world,

People are starting later with their first sexual intercourse, they are having fewer partners, there's more condom use.

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.

Our number one concern is to make the money work.

We all need to begin thinking out of the box. Stopping the AIDS epidemic is going to require more than just a medical approach.

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.

This should be a matter of national priority. The national government, the governors in every province, the mass organizations like the women's federation and youth league -- they all have to be on board. The media are not talking enough about AIDS. Journalists can save lives when it comes to AIDS as much as doctors can.

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.

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.

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,

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.

Commitment is vital, ... Resolutions will help, but the world must do more than talk about this epidemic. We must end it.

Of people living with HIV, only one in 10 has been tested and knows that he or she is infected,

AIDS is tightening its grip on southern Africa and threatening other regions of the world. Today's report warns regions experiencing newer HIV epidemics that they can either act now or pay later -- as Africa is now having to pay,

AIDS continues to tear apart families and communities, leaving behind 15 million orphans and robbing countries of their future.

There will be, for the first time, more people in their 60s and 70s than people in their 30s and 40s.

It is quite clear that our current global efforts remain inadequate for an epidemic that is continuing to spiral out of control.

The number of people living with HIV globally has reached its highest level ever at an estimated 40.3 million people.

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.

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.

Every one of these new HIV infections represents a prevention failure -- our collective failure,

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,

The key to protecting the children is preventing infection in parents,

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.

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.

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.

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.

All will depend on which position the leadership of the country takes,

The global response to AIDS has gained real momentum in the past decade, so much so that for the first time we can hope to get ahead of the epidemic.

All the elements are here for the rapid spread of HIV, so it's(up to us) to express concern and to highlight the opportunities that are there. The opportunities are enormous to really stop the epidemic, to nip it in the bud.

We all need to begin thinking out of the box.

The era of implementation has started. The world is now committed to universal treatment.

Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola

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.

The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.

Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.

Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.

In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy