Peter Piot Quotes

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. - Peter Piot

We are facing here a crisis that is unprecedented. - Peter Piot

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. - Peter Piot

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

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. - Peter Piot

Twenty years [into] the AIDS epidemic ... 40 million people [are] living with HIV, 25 million have died, and if we continue with the current low level of response in many countries, we can be sure that in the next 20 years that close to 70 million people will die because of AIDS. - Peter Piot

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

There are other countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, they have also emerging AIDS epidemics. So what is going on here in Indonesia is going to be highly relevant to other parts of the world. - Peter Piot

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. - Peter Piot

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