Gro Harlem Brundtland : (6)

" 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. " - Gro Harlem Brundtland

" Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children. " - Gro Harlem Brundtland

" This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries. " - Gro Harlem Brundtland

" 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. " - Gro Harlem Brundtland

" 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. " - Gro Harlem Brundtland

" More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries. " - Gro Harlem Brundtland