When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.
Margaret ChanThe Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.
Margaret ChanA health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.
Margaret ChanThe international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
Margaret Chan