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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.
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- Listening Length: 19 hours and 33 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
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- Publisher: Audible, Inc.
- Audible.com Release Date: June 27, 2013
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B00D5VIHQ0
Free No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
A bit of a disclaimer: My book came from the city library. I heard Dr. Piot's interview on NPR, put the book on hold, and received a pickup notice the next day.
Reading the book is a little like drinking out of a fire hose: the author was personally responsible for a number of important events I have read about in the newspaper-identification of Ebola virus, the issue of the Vatican opposing condoms because, according to Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, condoms were permeable to the AIDS virus (which they are not). Just watch for these because they make for interesting discoveries and ahh moments. The bottom line is that the author was present at a number of events and was often the senior UN spokesman in his role as the executive director of UNAIDS.
The book is a memoir, and in it Dr. Piot is thoroughly direct and very frank regarding his views. For example, upon leaving his UNAIDS post in 2008 he explained: "I was not down nor relieved to abandon the influential pulpit of the UN, nor the snake pit of multilateral politics ... I must admit thought that it was a great feeling to no longer be held responsible for anything that goes wrong on AIDS anywhere in the world." However, Dr. Piot speaks with awe, joy and authority regarding his conversations with key world figures such as Kofi Annan (his boss), Fidel Castro, China Premier Wen Jiabao, and the chief executives of African countries. He also addressed the US Congress to request program funding, which he received.
The book outlines major events in Dr. Poit's life as they relate to the microbiology of infectious diseases, the identification of disease vectors, and a long administrative career at the UN basically trying to "herd cats.