Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men.

The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.

When WHO works with the private sector, the Organization takes all possible measures to ensure its work to develop policy and guidelines is protected from industry influence.

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency.

[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.

Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.