The global response to AIDS has gained real momentum in the past decade, so much so that for the first time we can hope to get ahead of the epidemic.
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UNAIDS presents a more clinical argument. We deal with the facts, ... And if you exclude any group from the process in response to AIDS, you can never build an effective response. That's the fact.Peter Piot
It's one of the greatest injustices in the world today, ... Without massive treatment programs there won't be people left in the most affected countries to organize prevention programs, to teach in the schools, to organize the farms, to lead the country.
Peter Piot
In Botswana, for example, two years ago about 36 percent of adults were HIV-positive, ... Today this is 39 percent, nearly 40 percent of all adults.
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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.
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Africa is fragile, and this could really overburden its systems.
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There will be, for the first time, more people in their 60s and 70s than people in their 30s and 40s.
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