No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
Author(s): Peter Piot
Peter Piot has had an exceptional, adventure-filled career. In the 1970s, Piot was sent to Central Africa as part of a team tasked with identifying a grisly new virus. Crossing into the quarantine zone on the most dangerous missions, he studied local customs to determine how this disease - the Ebola virus - was spreading. Later, Piot found himself in the field again when another mysterious epidemic broke out: AIDS. He travelled throughout Africa, leading the first international AIDS initiatives there. Then, as founder and director of UNAIDS, he negotiated policies with leaders from Fidel Castro to Thabo Mbeki and helped turn the tide of the epidemic. Candid and engrossing, No Time to Lose captures the urgency and excitement of being on the front lines in the fight against today's deadliest diseases.
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Peter Piot is Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Professor of Global Health. He was formerly Under Secretary General of the United Nations and founding Executive Director of UNAIDS. He has been a Professor in Antwerp, Nairobi and Paris, and senior Fellow at the University of Washington and at the Gates Foundation, and a Scholar-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation. He was knighted as a Baron in his native Belgium in 1995. From 1991 to 1994 he was president of the International AIDS Society.
General Fields
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- : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- : WW Norton & Co
- : 0.315247
- : 03 June 2013
- : 210mm X 140mm
- : United States
- : 21 June 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Peter Piot
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 416
- : 16 pages of illustrations
