UNAIDS Speeches

“Breaking the Barriers – Partnership to Fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia”, Opening Plenary Speech: Ministerial Conference, Dublin, 23 February 2004, by Dr Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director and United Nations Under Secretary-General

04 August 2006

May I begin, Taoisech Ahern, by paying tribute to the initiative you have taken in making AIDS a central issue for Ireland’s Presidency of the European Union. In doing so, you are breaking down some of the most dangerous myths surrounding AIDS today: the myth that AIDS is only an African problem, and the myth that, on this continent, AIDS has been defeated.

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