Peter Piot Countries Quotations

AIDS continues to tear apart families and communities, leaving behind 15 million orphans and robbing countries of their future.

The fastest spread of HIV is in eastern Europe, in the countries of the former Soviet Union. It is mostly driven by a heroin epidemic... Russia alone has already well over one people living with HIV.

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.

Now we have Kenya, several of the Caribbean countries and Zimbabwe with a decline.

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.