Quotes About Global health

The 2000 Durban conference prompted action, and since then, great strides have been made in global health and the fight against HIV/AIDS.

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.

In a 2015 TED Talk, Bill Gates asserted, "If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes. Now, part of the reason for this is that we've invested a huge amount in nuclear deterrents. But we've actually invested very little in a system to stop an epidemic. We're not ready for the next epidemic.

The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

The child mortality revolution has used vaccines, treatments for diarrhea, micronutrients, and improved nutrition to reduce the number of child deaths worldwide each year from 20 million in 1960 to 6.6 million today—even as the number of children has risen.

Child mortality [since 2000 is] down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. … It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.