When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen..

The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response..

HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons ar….

All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee….

The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world..

I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements in the health of the people ….

For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and ….

Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the p….

Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are….

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

Avoid activities outdoor. If you like to take an afternoon nap sleep under bed net. So these are measures that can be done to minimize [the] chance o….

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 t….

A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and resources ….

The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career ….

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

The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibi….

I think U.N. organizations are important organizations. They exist for good reasons. And we also admit that there is room for us to improve the way w….

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker..

The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset..

A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not ha….

For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when th….