Health Is The Core Of Human Development

Investing In Health Will Produce Enormous Benefits.

The Myth That Men Are The Economic Providers And Women, Mainly, Are Mothers And Care Givers In The Family Has Now Been Thoroughly Refuted. This Family Pattern Has Never Been The Norm, Except In A Narrow Middle-class Segment.

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.

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

In The Face Of An Absolutely Unprecedented Emergency, Society Has No Choice But To Take Dramatic Action To Avert A Collapse Of Civilization. Either We Will Change Our Ways And Build An Entirely New Kind Of Global Society, Or They Will Be Changed For Us.