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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
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.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Disclose
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- Nov 07, 2020
All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.
- Diseases
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
- Pandemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.
- Business Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020