Peter Piot Quotes

AIDS has become one of the greatest leadership challenges worldwide and the need is to have a vibrant political leadership that could make bold decisions to contain the epidemic... Today the issue of AIDS is in the same category as global warming or global terrorism and it is no longer an infectious disease alone.

- Peter Piot

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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. - 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

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