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AIDS focus at U.S. Evangelical Summit
29 November 2007|
UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Peter Piot spoke today at the Saddleback Church Global AIDS Summit in Lake Forest, California. Dr Piot noted the unique and important role in the global AIDS response of religious groups of all kinds, which provide HIV treatment, care and support in some of the remotest parts of the world.
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One year on: UNITAID celebrates achievements
21 September 2007|
One year on since its establishment, the international drug purchase facility – UNITAID – is celebrating a number of key achievements including price reductions and increased delivery of AIDS treatment.
UNAIDS Executive Director addresses US academia on AIDS
20 September 2007|
UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot today participated in a forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C., discussing the United States’ important role in the global AIDS response and the upcoming reauthorization of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. In addition to Dr. Piot, U.S. Representative Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) and Kent R. Hill of the U.S. Agency for International Development also spoke at the forum.
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The role of academia in the global AIDS response
19 September 2007|
The important role of academic organizations in the global AIDS response was underlined on Tuesday 18 September in a special lecture given at Washington D.C.’s Howard University by UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot.
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AIDS: agent for change
11 May 2007|
“AIDS is forcing us to adopt new approaches, look at things differently, and transform the way we do things,” said UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot as he gave the 2007 Payne Lecture at America’s prestigious Stanford University on May 9
Calls for accountability and gender equality at World AIDS Day 2006 event in New York City
04 December 2006|
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot, AIDS activist Lynn Murchison and Hunger Project President Joan Holmes took part in an event in New York to commemorate World AIDS Day.
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World AIDS Day 2006 in New York
01 December 2006|
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was joined by UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot and leaders of different faiths to commemorate World AIDS Day at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in New York. The gathering in New York was one of a host of events taking place around the world to mark World AIDS Day 2006.

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