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Piot steps down from UNAIDS

Positive Living article • David Menadue • 21 July 2008
The global HIV epidemic

Peter Piot, the Executive Director of UNAIDSJoint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. UNAIDS is the main advocate for accelerated, comprehensive and coordinated global action on the epidemic. for the past 13 years, is stepping down at the end of this year. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon described Piot as “a tireless leader who has been in the vanguard of the response to AIDS since the earliest days of the epidemic.” A replacement has not been announced.

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