Margaret Chan Quotes
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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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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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My advice ... is that in selecting fish, perhaps at this juncture, it would be wise to select freshwater fish and other chilled fish from other parts of the world.
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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 multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.
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All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.
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I think this is a very strong message coming from the U.S. government.
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After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.
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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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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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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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Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
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Avoid activities outdoor.If you like to take an afternoon nap sleep under bed net. So these are measures that can be done to minimize [the] chance of infection [with Zika virus].
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A human influenza pandemic will be a big problem. But by working together we can respond effectively.
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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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WHO has a country office in nearly every developing country, usually located close to the Ministry of Health. Staff in these offices need to do much more to help ministries of health strengthen their national health plans and strategies and then negotiate with development partners to support these priorities and follow these plans.
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With increased surveillance its not unusual that you would pick up more cases.
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The International Health Partnership Plus is addressing the need to harmonize development assistance and reduce the current waste, duplication, and high transaction costs.
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Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
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I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.
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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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...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months.
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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.