Peter Piot and "Four Milestones"

Tuesday, June 14. 2005

In his June 2nd speech to the UN General Assembly high-level meeting, Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS, outlined "four milestones" necessary for the successful response to the AIDS crisis:

Comparable attention to other threats to global security;
Universal access to prevention and treatment services;
Sufficient resources;
Long-term planning horizon

Piot, to his credit, repeatedly returns to the theme of why AIDS is exceptional. Unfortunately, few political leaders adopt his language of urgency concerning AIDS. He notes in his closing remark:

My respectful call to you is that when this Assembly meets a year from now that it will not be to discuss what has not been done on AIDS, but to agree on action to address the material, and dare I say political, obstacles in the path to universal access to HIV prevention and treatment. We cannot afford to rest before this is achieved.

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