No Time To Lose

No Time To Lose: A Life In Pursuit Of Deadly Viruses

by Peter Piot

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Format:
Hardback 
Pages:
387 
Publisher:
WW Norton & Co 
Publication Date:
03 July 2012 
Category:
Public Health & Preventive Medicine 
ISBN:
9780393063165 

Description

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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