World Chronicle 925: Peter Piot, UNAIDS

Mary Alice Williams interviews Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), for World Chronicle program 925.

• Categories: News & Features / Features / World Chronicle
• Video Length: 00:28:04
• Production Date: 16 January 2004
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: LOUIS HAMMAN; MARY ALICE WILLIAMS; PETER PIOT
• Corporate Name: JOINT UNITED NATIONS PROGRAMME ON HIV-AIDS - UNAIDS
• Subject Topical: AIDS; AIDS PREVENTION; HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIV; MEDIA
• MAMS Id: 2121905
• Parent Id: 828123

Description

HIV/AIDS and the Media

The Global Media AIDS Initiative is a recent effort to involve media organization from around the world in helping to achieve one of the UN’s main goals: to halt – and hopefully reverse – the spread of HIV/AIDS worldwide by the year 2015.

How effective can the media be in keeping an estimated 45 million people from getting infected with HIV/AIDS in the next decade? How will the support of computer billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates, and of the Kaiser Family Foundation, translate into measurable progress in halting the pandemic? Is the media suffering from ‘fatigue’ in covering the global HIV/AIDS story?

These are some of the questions examined in this edition of World Chronicle with the help of Dr. Peter Piot, the Executive Director of UNAIDS.

• Scripts: File; 925.pdf (38.05 KB)