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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci and UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot on Wednesday at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City discussed progress in HIV/AIDS treatments and prevention efforts and the future of HIV treatment, Bloomberg reports.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
... Rights and HIV/AIDS: Now More than Ever, signed onto by some 600 civil society organizations. Dr Peter Piot promised continued support to national programmes that will address the intersections of HIV and human rights. UNAIDS staff in Geneva observed a moment of silence yesterday during their general staff meeting in memory of Jonathan Mann. A public event to celebrate his life and...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
... Cameroon, Chad, Kenya, Malawi, Togo, Zambia and Haiti," said UNAids executive director, Dr Peter Piot in the 2007 Aids Epidemic Update."These trends, combined with evidence of significant declines in HIV prevalence among young pregnant women in urban or rural areas from five countries (Zimbabwe, Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia) indicate that HIV prevention efforts...
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Chiang Mai City (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
"In terms of maximizing impact and joining forces to control the epidemic, this merger is an innovative and bold move," said Dr. Peter Piot, UNAIDS ...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
"In terms of maximizing impact and joining forces to control the epidemic, this merger is an innovative and bold move," said Dr. Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director. "This is the sort of consolidation I believe we will see more of in the future across the AIDS sector.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... an estimated five people contract HIV for every two provided with treatment. Executive Director Peter Piot said, "There has not been that push for prevention as there's been for treatment," adding, "If we thought the first phase was hard, we have to prepare for even tougher times."Science reports that a significant issue surrounding treatment and prevention is that the success of...
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Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Combination HIV prevention - fully implemented and supported bygovernments, communities and scientists - is necessary for theinternational community to achieve its HIV prevention goals. This callcomes from Dr Peter Piot and Michael Bartos (Joint United NationsProgramme on HIV AIDS, Geneva, Switzerland) and colleagues in the sixthof six papers in The Lancet series on HIVPrevention. After...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Combination HIV prevention - fully implemented and supported by governments, communities and scientists - is necessary for the international community to achieve its HIV prevention goals. This call comes from Dr Peter Piot and Michael Bartos (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV AIDS, Geneva, Switzerland) and colleagues in the sixth of six papers in The Lancet series on HIV Prevention....
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... as the cause of AIDS, nearly 7,500 people continue to become infected with HIV each day," said Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. "I am encouraged and inspired to see that IAVI's AIDS Vaccine Blueprint proposes a well-defined roadmap to accelerate the development of a critical tool for the elimination of this terrible disease." The...
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Stayin' Alive (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Now we hear from Anthony Fauci, head of the National Insitute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) -- and by the way Tony, thanks for the dough, he's never heard of me but he's paying for this trip -- and Peter Piot, head of UNAIDS. For those of you who aren't AIDSologists, these are the big guys. Fauci sets the agenda for biomedical research on HIV, and Piot is probably...
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Big News Network.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
... first time, fewer people are dying of AIDS and fewer people are becoming infected with HIV,' said Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, the joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS.But he warned: 'The end of AIDS is nowhere in sight.'Speakers at the closing session highlighted the negative impact that stigma and the denial of human rights continue to have on both HIV prevention...
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"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Combination HIV prevention, if thoroughly implemented by governments and communities, can avert 12 million infections by 2015, according to experts. Right now, some 7,000 people are infected daily around the world. A report authored by Peter Piot and Michael Bartos of the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Geneva said a quarter century of AIDS responses has created vast knowledge...
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Nature.com Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
As the AIDS conference closes in Mexico City today, we're looking forward to the next one in Vienna in 2010 - and the shifts in the AIDS world that will hapen in the two years leading up to it. One leadership change will happen at the end of this year, when Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, steps down. Already, names of four possible candidates for Piot's job are floating...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
... imprisonment, beatings and death in many parts of the globe: Homophobia, stigma, discrimination. Peter Piot [UNAIDS Executive Director] highlighted the public information campaigns of the Mexican government health department against homophobia as noteworthy exceptions to most government's either ignoring homophobia or actively promoting it.” Gus Cairns, also blogging on aids2008.com,...
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PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Speaking on the sidelines of the International AIDS Conference, Global Fund chief Michel Kazatchkine and UNAIDS head Peter Piot said that China and other fast-advancing economies could shoulder more of their own burdens in the future, freeing up resources for poorer countries.
