A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

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

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men

Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.