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.

Women power is a formidable force.

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.

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

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

We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.

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