Peter Piot People Quotations

People are starting later with their first sexual intercourse, they are having fewer partners, there's more condom use.

What we are seeing are pockets of rising and quite strong levels of infection originally among people who participated in sharing needles, drug use, and sex workers. But what we know from the experience all over the world is, it's spreading outside these groups.

Of people living with HIV, only one in 10 has been tested and knows that he or she is infected,

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.

The number of people living with HIV globally has reached its highest level ever at an estimated 40.3 million people.

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.

That's a breakthrough and that's particularly important for young people because they look at them as role models and helps raise public awareness.

There will be, for the first time, more people in their 60s and 70s than people in their 30s and 40s.