Health is the core of human development.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

This is an extremely significant step for international public health,

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on,