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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countries are in dire situation in terms of having enough doctors. And many of these countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa. You know, that part of the world alone needs one million doctors.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the country has invested in the training of doctors or nurses or midwives for that matter, people are beginning to say, 'Should we not ask them to serve a number of years in the country who invested in their training?' I think this is now coming to be an interesting discussion.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020