With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

Women power is a formidable force.

The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.

Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities