Margaret Chan Quotes

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• 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…
• A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate…
• 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…
• 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 international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
• The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife,…
• ...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months
• 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…
• Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
• Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are…
• 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…
• 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.
• After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.
• I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.
• Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.
• Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
• The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.
• The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.
• Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.
• What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship.

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