Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.

Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis

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.

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

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