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- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
- Reducing sexual transmission
- Preventing HIV among drug users
- Eliminating new HIV infections among children
- 15 million accessing treatment
- Avoiding TB deaths
- Closing the resource gap
- Eliminating gender inequalities
- Eliminating stigma and discrimination
- Eliminating travel restrictions
- Strengthening HIV integration
- 2011 Political Declaration: Targets and elimination commitments
UNAIDS Speeches
- Conclave of the Chief Ministers and Legislators of North-East Indian States. Speech by Dr. Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director
- Text of the Speech given by Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS, at the Conclave of the Chief Ministers and Legislators of North-East Indian States during his visit to India, 19 November 2005.
- MESSAGE 0F THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL TO THE HIGH-LEVEL SESSION OF THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA WITH HEALTH MINISTERS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
- MESSAGE TO THE HIGH-LEVEL SESSION OF THE GLOBAL FUND
- Reflections on AIDS. Speech by Dr Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 3 October 2005
- I was asked to give my reflections on the AIDS epidemic, which I will do. But I will not
- The Secretary-General's message on World AIDS Day 2005
- In the course of the past decade, the world has made considerable progress in the fight against AIDS. It has also made considerable promises. The time has come to keep them. And I believe we can.
- Launch of the 2005 AIDS Epidemic Update, Speech by Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director, New Delhi, India, 21 November 2005
- On behalf of the UN family, I am deeply honoured to launch the 2005 update on the global AIDS epidemic, a joint report of UNAIDS and WHO, from this great institution of democracy, India’s Parliament.
- Speech to the 5th Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS by Dr Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director, Port of Spain, 31st October 2005
- In the span of just these few years, the Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS has become the prime platform on AIDS in the Caribbean – this has been possible because PANCAP has been hosted by CARICOM, and so has the great benefit of political backing at the highest levels. PANCAP has made major advances in these years on several fronts, including political and social mobilization, shared planning and development of a regional response, and financial mobilization, with more than $500 million in international funding committed to the Caribbean today. The challenge now is to make the money work – a challenge that I know PANCAP is already engaged with.
- Statement to the ASEAN-United Nations Summit by Dr Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director, New York, 13 September, 2005
- I am honoured to have this opportunity to brief you on the challenges that AIDS poses to the ASEAN countries. The global AIDS epidemic is an exceptional crisis. It is not just another infectious disease epidemic or another health problem. It is one of the make-or-break issues of our times, no less than global climate change and mass extreme poverty. There is simply no precedent in modern history for such a massive, globalized and destructive epidemic. And we are still in the early phase of this epidemic – certainly in the ASEAN region.
- The Status of the Response: What Will it Take to Turn the Epidemic Around?; Special Lecture to the 3rd IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment, by Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director, Rio de Janeiro, 27 July 2005
- Today it’s fair to say that we are at a very different point from where we were 10 or even 5 years ago in terms of the global response to AIDS. Look where we were 10 years ago, about the time that UNAIDS was created.
- Statement to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, Substantive Session of 2005, Item 7 (g) of the Provisional Agenda: Report of UNAIDS, New York, 19th July 2005 by Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director
- I am grateful to have this opportunity to join you on behalf of the Cosponsoring organizations that make up UNAIDS, to introduce the report of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS over the past biennium. In this period, UNAIDS was strengthened by the addition of two new Cosponsors, the World Food Programme and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, taking our numbers to 10, plus the UNAIDS Secretariat. Our efforts take place in a context very different to that of a decade ago, when this distinguished Council established UNAIDS. In the past few years, the world’s response to AIDS has gathered such strength that for the first time ever we have a real opportunity to halt and begin to reverse this devastating epidemic, as called for in Millennium Development Goal 6.
- Statement to the United Nations Security Council
- Speech by UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot on the progress made in implementing the resolution 1308 on AIDS and peacekeeping.
- Speech to the 17th Meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board Geneva, 27 June 2005 by Dr Peter Piot Executive Director
- At the outset, let me thank Canada and Minister Eileen Carol for their leadership on AIDS and for having chaired the Board over the last year, particularly for all the support to the Programme and to me personally. Let me also thank Brazil and Minister Humberto Costa for accepting to be our Chair for the next 12 months – a very welcome step as part of Brazil’s exceptional leadership on AIDS.
- THE SECRETARY-GENERAL REMARKS AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON HIV/AIDS New York, 2 June 2005
- Four years ago, the United Nations General Assembly met in a special session and unanimously committed itself to addressing the scourge of HIV/AIDS.
- Statement at the General Assembly High-Level, Meeting on HIV/AIDS
- We have heard the Secretary-General emphasize in his speech the dramatic change in global action against AIDS since this august Assembly adopted the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS four years ago.
- Follow-up from UNAIDS Executive Director
- Progess update from UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Peter Piot on the Global Task Team and The Resource Needs Steering Committee in which he emphasizes the importance of harmonizing both process in the fight against AIDS.
- Progress update from Global Task Team and Resource Needs Steering Committee Co-Chairs
- Update on the process of the Global Task Team and the Resource Needs Steering Committee, provided by their respective Co-Chairs, of developing resource needs estimates for AIDS.
- Speech to the 7th Meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, 2nd ad hoc thematic meeting, New Delhi, 09 December 1998, by Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director
- Welcome to the seventh meeting of the Programme Coordinating Board, our second thematic meeting, and our first in Asia. It is a great personal pleasure to be here in India on what is my third visit this year. The strengthening of the international partnership in support of the Government of India’s HIV/AIDS efforts has been a major priority for UNAIDS over the last 18 months.
- Speech to the 13th Meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, Estoril, Portugal, 11 December 2002, by Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director
- This meeting of the PCB is among the most important in the Programme’s short history. My report on the Future Directions for UNAIDS responds to the recommendations of the Final Report of the Evaluation Team on the Five Year Evaluation by proposing specific operational actions to take the Programme forward.
- Speech to the 12th Meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, 29 May 2002, by Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director
- In welcoming you to this 12th meeting of the PCB, I want to reflect on what has been a momentous year. For the first time, there is a real sense that the scale of the global HIV epidemic will be matched by the scale of the response. UNAIDS is now clearly operating in a very different context than when we started six years ago. And it is fair to say that we have been a major actor in shaping this different environment. This presentation will focus on how we are responding to the new reality.
- Speech to the 9th Meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, Geneva, 25 May 2000, by Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director
- I would like to emphasize that the impact of the epidemic is now starkly visible in the worst affected countries. Impacts on productivity, including agriculture, lead to knock-on effects in households. In the private sector AIDS undermines development by killing skilled and unskilled labour alike, increasing expenditures and reducing revenue.
- Progress update from UNAIDS Executive Director
- Progess Update on the Global Task Team and the Resource Needs Steering Committee by Dr. Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director, on the necessity for the two groups to work together and interact.
- Progress update from UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot
- Follow up by UNAIDS Executive Director Dr. Peter Piot to “The Global Response to AIDS: ‘Making the Money Work’ The Three Ones in Action” meeting on March 9th 2005 in London in which he communicates the structure and organisation of the Global Task Team and The Resource Needs Steering Committee.
- “Why AIDS is exceptional” Speech given at the London School of EconomicsLondon, 8 February 2005
- Is the AIDS pandemic so exceptional a threat that it is in a league altogether different to other infectious diseases or causes of ill health? Is the pandemic so exceptional a threat that its control should not be just one of many Millennium Development Goals but rather an overarching priority, a prerequisite to achieving the MDGs? Is the threat so exceptional that it demands a binding first call on the attention of political leaders as well as on finances? So exceptional that it demands that we undertake fundamental changes on many fronts if we are to succeed?
