Although fighting in the Liberian capital has currently subsided, tens of thousands of men, women and children displaced by the recent fighting are still living in desperate conditions in rudimentary shelters with minimal access to health care. |
I think his own statements are correct, |
If the world fails to mount a more serious effort to fight infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance will increasingly threaten to send the world back to a pre-antibiotic age, |
It is a treaty aimed at saving lives -- hundreds of millions of lives and in our own lifetime. |
Not only are children growing up in an environment where they are bombarded with positive images of alcohol, but our youth are a key target of the marketing practice of the alcohol industry. |
Now we must see this convention come into force as soon as possible and countries must use it as the basis of their national tobacco-control legislation. |
The burden of disease falls on the poor. |
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on, |
This is an extremely significant step for international public health, |
This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat, ... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread. |
To those young and not so young who might be debating whether or not to start smoking, |
Tobacco has to be addressed and fought now because the children and young people of Asia are becoming influenced. |
We currently have effective medicines to cure almost every major infectious disease, ... But we risk losing these valuable drugs and our opportunity to eventually control many infectious diseases because of increasing antimicrobial resistance. |
We currently have effective medicines to cure almost every major infectious disease. But we risk losing these valuable drugs and our opportunity to eventually control many infectious diseases because of increasing antimicrobial resistance. |
We have access to internal documents of tobacco companies that tell us that at the same time tobacco companies say they don't target young people, they are still trying to reach children. |