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Margaret Chan
Margaret Chan
Chinese Public Servant
Born: Aug 21, 1947
Countries Country Health Important People World
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Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers. Margaret Chan
Time Health Only Consumers Make Industry Huge Same Same Time Tobacco Produces Products Profits Damage
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 pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill. Margaret Chan
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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 are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem. Margaret Chan
Experience Problem Sometimes Other AIDS Hesitant Admit Countries Learned Stigma Disease Diseases HIV Just Reasons Many
New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity. Margaret Chan
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The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation. Margaret Chan
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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 unpredictable behaviour. Margaret Chan
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All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role. Margaret Chan
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Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution. Margaret Chan
Nature Pandemic Solution Issue Influenza Requires International
All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia. Margaret Chan
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The 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 Chan
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WHO has a country office in nearly every developing country, usually located close to the Ministry of Health. Staff in these offices need to do much more to help ministries of health strengthen their national health plans and strategies and then negotiate with development partners to support these priorities and follow these plans. Margaret Chan
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What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship. Margaret Chan
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New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out. Margaret Chan
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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 they do need to seek urgent care. Margaret Chan
Challenges People Care Pandemic Our Worry Severity Seek Understand Greatest Moderate Urgent Helping Helping People Need
Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit. Margaret Chan
Beautiful Visit Safe Well Mexico Gracious Place
If the country has invested in the training of doctors or nurses or midwives for that matter, people are beginning to say, 'Should we not ask them to serve a number of years in the country who invested in their training?' I think this is now coming to be an interesting discussion. Margaret Chan
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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 woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset. Margaret Chan
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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. Margaret Chan
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I have a reputation for being a straight-talker. Margaret Chan
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Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases. Margaret Chan
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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. Margaret Chan
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Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them. Margaret Chan
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