Keynote address: 'No time to lose: of infectious diseases, science, politics and institutions’, Prof. Peter Piot, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK (ESCAIDE 2013)
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Keynote address: 'No time to lose: of infectious diseases, science, politics and institutions’, Prof. Peter Piot, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK (ESCAIDE 2013)
1. No Time to Lose:
Of infectious disease, science,
politics and institutions
Peter Piot
ESCAIDE
Stockholm
5.11.2013
Improving health worldwide
www.lshtm.ac.uk
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5. My lessons from Ebola, 1976
• Time , place, person!
• Poverty driving disease
• The power and challenges of international
collaboration
• EIS : US field epidemiology
• Good intentions can be dangerous
10. Prevalence of HIV Infection,2012
Piot and Quinn, N Engl J Med 2013; 368:2210
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12. Lessons from STD and HIV research
• The power of combining epidemiology with
clinical and laboratory sciences
• Pre-eminence of social determinants,
economics, politics and human rights
• Opportunities and challenges of international
collaboration
• Europe needs a CDC
• Weak EU support for global health research
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15. Non-viral resistance
• Experts: in public health and health services,
essential medicines, international
development
• Institutions: development agencies, World
Bank, European Commission, WHO, Unicef
• Politicians: Ministers of Health and of Finance
• Denial about HIV : e.g. President Mbeki
• Lack of ambition
16. “the brutal fact was that those who
could pay for Africa’s AIDS therapy -
the pharmaceutical industry by way
of price cuts, and rich-country tax
payers by way of foreign aid – are
very unlikely ... to do so”
(W McGreevy, World Bank,1998)
18. Leadership
Former President Fernando Henrique
Cardoso of Brazil.
1988 Drugs for
opportunistic
infections
provided
1991 Zidovudine
provided
1996 Free and
widespread
distribution of
ARV
19. UN Secretary-
General Kofi Annan,
Al Gore, Vice President
of the USA, chaired the
first debate on AIDS as a
major security issue at the
UN Security Council in
January 2000.
UN Photo
27. Lessons from the AIDS response
• Evidence: both size of the problem and of solutions
• Human rights as driver
• Unified strategy
• Political strategy
• Bring solutions
• A brilliant coalition
• Activism by people affected
• Never take no for an answer!
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29. Lessons from the chameleon
• Focus on your goal
• Be flexible, while sticking to goal
• Constantly process intelligence
• One step at a time
• Timing is everything
30. How AIDS invented Global
Health
(A.Brandt, NEJM 2013)
• Disrupted divide between prevention and
treatment
• New forms of disease advocacy and activism
• New global funding
• Changed the cost of essential medicines
• Recognised basic human rights
• Major boost for global health research and
academic interest
34. In some countries the entire AIDS
treatment budget comes from
international sources
Percentage of care and treatment expenditure from international sources
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rwanda
Central African Republic
Niger
Eritrea
Malawi
Guinea-Bissau
Mozambique
Guinea
Mali
Cote d'Ivoire
Nigeria
Sierra Leone
Burkina Faso
Kenya
Togo
Ghana
Burundi
Uganda
Cameroon
Swaziland
Senegal
Benin
Gabon
Chad
Angola
Morocco
Lesotho
Botswana
Congo
Egypt
Seychelles
Algeria
37. 100
80
60
40
20
0
Percent
The HIV Treatment Cascade
Piot and Quinn, NEJM 2013;
United States
Mozambique
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39. How well equipped is Europe for the
next challenges?
• New health challenges will emerge
• Many countries have weak institutional capacity
• Financial crisis has weakened Europe’s public
health and response capacity
• Challenges beyond infectious diseases
• Use regional funds to strengthen public health
institutions
• Need to expand mandate of ECDC
41. Declan B. Polio risk looms over Europe. Nature 2013; 502: 601
42. Europe needs a strong,
autonomous Centre for
Disease Control and
Prevention , working with
strong autonomous national
Centres, addressing both
infectious and chronic diseases