Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies

Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.