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We feel that the risk of Zika infection is low for an individual, and it is manageable, as long as individuals take appropriate personal protective measures, including the use of a mosquito repellent, including wearing clothing that prevents mosquito bites.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We know that treatment of depression and anxiety makes good sense for health and wellbeing; this new study confirms that it makes sound economic sense too, we must now find ways to make sure that access to mental health services becomes a reality for all men, women and children, wherever they live.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If we are to make any headway in halting the rise in diabetes, we need to rethink our daily lives: to eat healthily, be physically active, and avoid excessive weight gain, even in the poorest settings, governments must ensure that people are able to make these healthy choices and that health systems are able to diagnose and treat people with diabetes.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
However a high level of vigilance and response capacity must be maintained to ensure the ability of the countries to prevent Ebola infections and to rapidly detect and respond to flare-ups in the future.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), however a high level of vigilance and response capacity must be maintained to ensure the ability of the countries to prevent Ebola infections and to rapidly detect and respond to flare-ups in the future.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We hear you loud and clear on your expectations on how you would like to see us reform the program.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are committed to implementing a single program, with a single line of accountability, a single budget, a single set of business processes, a single cadre of staff and a single set of performance benchmarks.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Members of the committee admit that the situation meets the conditions for a public health emergency of international concern, i have accepted this advice. I am now declaring that the recent cluster of microcephaly and other neurological abnormalities reported in Latin America following a similar cluster in French Polynesia in 2014 constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
They communicated and looked at collaboration and to see whether we can, in terms of preparedness, get some vaccines ready in advance of another MERS outbreak.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They were using the WHO guidelines on infection control. And yet we see so many countries with infected people who we had to evacuate.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If proven effective, this is going to be a game changer, and it will change the management of the current Ebola outbreak and future outbreaks.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I do not ever again want to see this organization faced with a situation it is not prepared, staffed, funded or administratively set up to manage.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The program will have performance benchmarks showing what must happen within 24, 48 and 72 hours, not months.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I am convinced that if we act faster and have a clear command structure in place, we will be better equipped to combat a crisis like Ebola next time that happens, the WHO is the only international organisation that has universal political legitimacy on global health issues. This is why it is so important to render its structures more efficient.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I am convinced that if we act faster and have a clear command structure in place, we will be better equipped to combat a crisis like Ebola next time that happens, the WHO is the only international organization that has universal political legitimacy on global health issues. This is why it is so important to render its structures more efficient.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There has been massive mobilization on the part of the affected countries and all partners to accelerate the development and availability of proven interventions, if a vaccine is found effective, it will be the first preventive tool against Ebola in history.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There has been massive mobilisation on the part of the affected countries and all partners to accelerate the development and availability of proven interventions, if a vaccine is found effective, it will be the first preventive tool against Ebola in history.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are scaling up our action, We must smother this little fire before it gets out of control.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
We must maintain our vigilance, Complacency would be our enemy.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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