 An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money. |
| Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children. |
| Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities. |
| Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour. |
| Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal. |
| Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones. |
| A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. |
| 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. |
| The burden of disease falls on the poor. |
| That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development. |
| We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases. |
| During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development. |
| 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. |
| Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology. |
| Cancers of all types among women are increasing. |
| With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year. |
| You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. |
| The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food. |
| I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries. |
| Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men. |
