Gro Brundtland Quotes (9 Quotes)

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.

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,

We have every year in the last 20 years seen a new disease identified. There will be new threats of this kind, there will be new diseases coming. Therefore the capacity to identify and react, to respond quickly, is so important.

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.

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.

Tobacco has to be addressed and fought now because the children and young people of Asia are becoming influenced.

We will try to stop the military activity in Chechnya before the election,

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.

This is an extremely significant step for international public health,