No Time to Lose A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses

by Piot, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780393063165
• ISBN10: 039306316X
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-28
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, There's no future in infectious diseases. They've all been solved. Fortunately, Piot ignored him, and the result has been an exceptional, adventure-filled career. In the 1970s, as a young man, 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 traveled 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
A Blue Flask of Virus	p. 3
Adventure at Last	p. 18
The Mission in Yambuku	p. 29
Ebola	p. 42
A Pseudo Outbreak and a Helicopter	p. 58
The Big Team	p. 77
From Ebola to Sex and the Transmission of Infection	p. 87
America and Back	p. 100
Nairobi	p. 108
A New Epidemic	p. 121
Projet SIDA	p. 133
Yambuku One More Time	p. 148
The Unfolding of an Epidemic	p. 166
Changing of the Guard	p. 181
An International Bureaucrat	p. 193
Sharks in the Water	p. 214
Getting the Basics Right	p. 233
The Lesson of the Chameleon/Bringing Together the Brilliant Coalition	p. 246
The Tipping Point	p. 273
The Price of Life	p. 297
A War Chest for AIDS	p. 316
An Unfinished Agenda	p. 335
Epilogue	p. 371
Acknowledgments	p. 377
Index	p. 381
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