44 Quotes by Peter Piot

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.