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Health News // 1 decade ago

Piot joins Gates Foundation as adviser

A Belgian doctor who once was critical of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has joined the foundation as a top health adviser, the Seattle charity said.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Millions lack access to AIDS drugs

The World Health Organization says nearly 3 million people with AIDS are now receiving anti-retroviral HIV drugs.

Science News // 1 decade ago

U.N: Global AIDS epidemic still growing

The World Health Organization says new data show the global AIDS epidemic is growing and some nations report resurgence in recent HIV infection rates.

Business News // 1 decade ago

UN reports AIDS cases still rising

The number of people infected with the AIDS virus continues to rise even though some countries have made progress, the United Nations reported. The annual report said the biggest increase in AIDS cases was in southeast Asia and eastern Europe, although su

Top News // 1 decade ago

U.N. AIDS chief warns Asia of danger

The United Nations AIDS director warns the disease could explode in Asia if governments there do not take steps quickly to contain the epidemic.

Top News // 1 decade ago

U.N. unveils new AIDS policies

U.N. officials estimate at least 29 million HIV infections could be averted by 2010 under new prevention policies approved Friday.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Wen says China can control HIV/AIDS

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has told U.N. officials that China is fully capable of controlling HIV/AIDS within the country, Xinhua reports.

Top News // 1 decade ago

UNAIDS head optimistic in battle

The head of the lead U.N. agency fighting HIV/AIDS says he is optimistic as long as the battle receives the same attention as global security.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Policies could cut HIV/AIDS by millions

Actions taken today could prevent as many as 43 million HIV infections in the next 20 years, the U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS in Africa says.

Science News // 1 decade ago

U.N.: 2025 Africa AIDS cases could hit 89M

A U.N. report offers three scenarios projecting the number of new HIV/AIDS cases in Africa ranging from 65 million to 89 million in 2025.

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An explosive cocktail of risk factors means that if 'business as usual' continues there will undoubtedly be an explosion of AIDS
U.N. AIDS chief warns Asia of danger Jul 02, 2005

Strategies to address gender inequalities are urgently needed if we want a realistic chance at turning back the epidemic
Feature: Fighting AIDS with microbicides Dec 07, 2004

I truly believe that for the first time there is a real chance that we will get ahead of this epidemic
Analysis: Spending AIDS money is dilemma Jul 19, 2004

One of my biggest concerns is what is going on in India
AIDS report: Epidemic goes on and on Nov 25, 2003

The face of AIDS is clearly a female face in sub-Saharan Africa (and) is far away from the gay white man's disease it used to be in the '80s
Women account for half of all AIDS cases Nov 26, 2002

Peter, baron Piot, MD, PhD (born 1949 in Leuven, Belgium) is a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, former Executive Director of the UN specialized agency UNAIDS, and a professor at Imperial College London. 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.

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