A Conversation with Peter Piot (Transcript)
Peter Piot and Michel Sidibé discuss Piot's new book, No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses, the Joint United Nations...
Speakers: Peter Piot, Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Author, No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
Michel Sidibe, Executive Director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
Presider: Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
June 18, 2012
Peter Piot and Michel Sidibé discuss Piot's new book, No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and the state of the AIDS epidemic in the world today.
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