What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship.

Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.

Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

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

At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.

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