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Baron Peter Piot
Peter Piot
Peter Piot
Born 1949
Leuven, Belgium
Nationality Belgium
Alma mater University of Ghent
Notable awards Vlerick Award

Peter, Baron Piot (born 1949 in Leuven, Belgium) is Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN specialized agency UNAIDS. In 2004, he was awarded the Vlerick Award.

After he qualified as a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Ghent (Belgium) in 1974, he co-discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976. In 1980 Peter Piot received a PhD degree in Microbiology from the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He was also a Senior Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle.

In the 1980s, Dr. Piot participated in a series of collaborative projects in Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Tanzania and Zaire. Project SIDA in Kinshasa, Zaire was the first international project on AIDS in Africa and is widely acknowledged as having provided the foundations of our understanding of HIV infection in Africa. He was a professor of microbiology, and of public health at the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, in Antwerp, and the Universities of Nairobi, Brussels, and Lausanne.

From 1991 to 1994, Dr. Piot was president of the International AIDS Society. 1992 he became Assistant Director of the World Health Organization's Global Programme on HIV/AIDS. On 12 December 1994, he was appointed Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Dr. Piot was ennobled a Baron by King Albert II of Belgium, in 1995. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, UK. He is fluent in three languages and is the author of 16 books and more than 500 scientific articles.

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Quotes

“ The latest global AIDS figures give us reason for concern and for some hope. The number of new infections rose to 4.3 million this year, at the same time 2.9 million people died of AIDS-related illnesses. Multi-drug and extremely drug resistant tuberculosis highlight new challenges in our collective response.”

Peter Piot, World AIDS Day 2006 (read more)

“ On current trends, AIDS will kill tens of millions of people over the next 20 years. But this need not happen. We know prevention works. We know that HIV treatment and care work. The global AIDS response is poised to enter a new era: where leadership and commitment are at long last matched with the resources needed to get on with the job.”

Peter Piot, 2006

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It is time to increase funding. Sometimes I hear that there is "too much money for AIDS". Nothing could be further from the truth. Since the creation of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, there has been a tremendous increase in resources for AIDS, with the results we know. But the sobering reality is that the AIDS response remains under-funded. Last year, there was an $8 billion shortfall. So if we are going to sustain the gains we have made already and not waste the investments and the results we have, if we are going to get anywhere near universal access to HIV prevention treatment and care, the world will need to significantly increase investments in AIDS.1”

References

  1. ^ United Nations General Assembly Verbatim Report meeting 102 session 62 page 4, Mr. Piot Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS on 10 June 2008 (retrieved 2008-09-08)

Further reading

  • Pattyn S, van der Groen G, Courteille G, Jacob W, Piot P., Isolation of Marburg-like virus from a case of haemorrhagic fever in Zaire, Lancet. 1977 Mar 12;1(8011):573-4.
  • Piot P, Bartos M, Ghys PD, Walker N, Schwartlander B., The global impact of HIV/AIDS, Nature. 2001 Apr 19;410(6831):968-73.
  • Shetty, Priya (June 2008). "Peter Piot". Lancet 371 (9628): 1907. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60820-X. PMID 18539213. 

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