Margaret Chan Quotes
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There is a high degree of support for voluntary compliance with the International Health Regulations. It will help countries to build capacity.
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Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.
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HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.
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Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.
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There are two things that I feel very happy about from my tenure as Director of Health in Hong Kong: we introduced primary health care and preventive services from conception to old age; and we worked with herbalists to put Traditional Chinese Medicine on a firm footing of promotion, development and regulation.
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I think U.N. organizations are important organizations. They exist for good reasons. And we also admit that there is room for us to improve the way we do business. The WHO will be a very positive and proactive partner in the overall U.N. reform, which is also important.
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SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations.
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The Chinese government has taken very effective measures, and they are making improvements every month, even every day.
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The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
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They have agreed to donate another 2 million courses, that is 20 million doses, for use by affected countries who reported human cases to reduce morbidity and mortality and to delay the spread of the infection.
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After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.
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Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
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I think this is a very strong message coming from the U.S. government.
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The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.
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Avian and pandemic influenza are posing a greater challenge to the world than any previous emerging infectious diseases.
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With increased surveillance its not unusual that you would pick up more cases.
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For the first time in human history, we have a chance to prepare ourselves for a pandemic before it arrives, ... It is incumbent upon the global community to act now.
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My argument is, whatever resources you put in place, compared to the possible economic loss in the event of a pandemic, is peanuts.
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Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.
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I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements in the health of the people of Africa and the health of women are key indicators of the performance of WHO. This is a health organization for the whole world... But we must focus our attention on the people in greatest need.
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When WHO works with the private sector, the Organization takes all possible measures to ensure its work to develop policy and guidelines is protected from industry influence.
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Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
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...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months.
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We are not in a pandemic situation. It is still an animal disease.