UNAIDS Speeches

Speech to the 9th Meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, Geneva, 25 May 2000, by Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director

12 May 2005

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.