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• Margaret Chan:

  All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should r

• Margaret Chan:

  Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have

• Margaret Chan:

  This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and othe

• Margaret Chan:

  Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our fir

• Margaret Chan:

  A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main

• Margaret Chan:

  The International Health Partnership Plus is addressing the need to harmonize development assistanc

• Margaret Chan:

  The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful pol

• Margaret Chan:

  WHO has a country office in nearly every developing country, usually located close to the Ministry

• Margaret Chan:

  What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship.

• Margaret Chan:

  New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the