Peter Piot

Peter Piot , born in 1949 with Leuwen in Belgium is the Executive director of the Onusida since its creation in 1995, the program of UNO intended to coordinate its other agencies to fight against the Sida.

Official Biography with the 01.01.2007 ()

Executive director of the ONUSIDA since his creation in 1995 and Assistant general secretary of the United Nations, Dr. Peter Piot followed a university and scientific career prestigious centered on the AIDS, like on the health of the women in the world under development.

Using his competences as a scientist, manager and an activist, Dr. Piot launched a challenge to the world leaders to place the AIDS within the framework of social development and economic as well as safety. Under its direction, the ONUSIDA became the principal lawyer of the world action against the AIDS. It gathered ten organizations of the system of the United Nations around a common day order on the AIDS, with the avant-garde of the reform of the United Nations. Dr. Piot obtained a diploma of medicine at the University of Ghent, and a doctorate in microbiology at the University of Antwerp, in Belgium. He was also Senior Fellow at the University from Washington to Seattle. In 1976, after his diploma of medicine, Dr. Piot has Co-overdraft the Ebola virus in Zaire. In the years 1980, Dr. Piot launched and widened a series of projects concerted in Africa, in Burundi, in Ivory Coast, in Kenya, in Tanzania and in Zaire. The AIDS Project in Kinshasa, Zaire, was the first international project on the AIDS in Africa; he is largely recognized like having provided the foundations of our comprehension of the infection with HIV in Africa. He was Professor of microbiology and public health at the Institute of tropical Medicine of Antwerp, and in the universities of Nairobi, Brussels and Lausanne.

In 1992, Dr. Piot joined the world Programme of Fight against AIDS of the World Health Organization in Geneva as an Associated director.

Born in Belgium in 1949, Dr. Piot usually speaks three languages; he is the author of 16 works and more than 500 scientific articles. He received many distinctions for his achievements in the field of science and the company, and was appointed baron by the King Albert II of Belgium in 1995. He is member of the Institute of Medicine of the national Academy of Sciences of the United States and the royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, and member of the royal College of the Doctors of London (the United Kingdom).

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