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peter piot who has been on the front lines against aids talks about his career. he s the executive director of the joint united nations program on hiv/aids and author of no time to lose: a life in pursuit of deadly viruses. he was interviewed at an event in new york city. this is an hour. so, peter, you were a whopping 27 years old [laughter] you had finished medical school, but you were just getting started in your ph.d. efforts in microbiology at the institute of tropical medicine in antwerp. a mysterious test tube sample shows up in terrible condition, and you figure out that there s some new disease in africa, and you have the chutzpah to say i know i m only 27, but i want to go there. let me go, i want to be in the middle of this adventure. where did all this gall come from? i m actually a pretty timid and shy person. oh, yeah, right. [laughter] coming from flanders where my mother always said speaking is silver, silence is golden, son. anyway, i thin ....