"World
Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the
problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It
is an occasion to call on all partners -- governments,
international donors, civil society, the private
sector, the media, families and individuals alike
-- to develop sustainable activities for the survival,
health and well-being of mothers and children.
On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves
to that mission."
~ Kofi
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"Children
are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.
And yet, this year alone, more than half a million
women will die in pregnancy or childbirth. Almost
11 million children will die before they reach the
age of five -- 4 million of them in the first month
of life. Almost all these deaths will happen in developing
countries. A large number of them could be prevented.
When adopting the Millennium Development Goals five
years ago, the world's governments promised, by the
year 2015, to reduce maternal deaths by three quarters
and cut child mortality by two thirds. While there
has been progress in some regions, there has been
stagnation in others. In some countries, progress
has even been reversed.
World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the
problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is
an occasion to call on all partners -- governments,
international donors, civil society, the private sector,
the media, families and individuals alike -- to develop
sustainable activities for the survival, health and
well-being of mothers and children. On this World
Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission."
~ Kofi
Annan
He
who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
~Arabic Proverb
"There
is simply no good reason why in the 21st century,
thousands of women and children in developing countries
should be dying during childbirth and the early years
of life.
~ Honourable Aileen Carroll, Minister of International
Cooperation, CIDA.
The
power of love to change bodies is legendary, built
into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience.
Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around....
Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly
been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
~ Larry Dossey
Sickness
is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it
must husband its resources to live. But health
or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare,
runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and
creeks of other men's necessities.
-- Ralph
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"...In
a world riven by inequity, medicine could be
viewed as social justice work." -- Paul
Farmer
“If
access to health care is considered a human
right, who is considered human enough to have
that right?” -- Paul
Farmer
"Clean
water and health care and school and food and
tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things
should constitute a set of basics that people
must have as birthrights." -- Paul
Farmer
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If
you have health, you probably will be happy, and if
you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth
you need, even if it is not all you want.
~ Elbert Hubbard
We
have an opportunity to focus global attention
on what should be obvious: every mother, and every
child, counts. They count because we value every
human life. The evidence is clear that healthy
mothers and children are the bedrock of healthy
and prosperous communities and nations.
~ Dr.
LEE Jong-wook, WHO Secretary-General
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"...thousands
of women could be saved each year if they had access
to skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth, and
access to emergency obstetric care. Most of the interventions
they need are simple, affordable, and highly effective."
~ Dr.
LEE Jong-wook, WHO Secretary-General
"Our
message today is one of hope. It is about potential
waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet the
global challenges we face now and in the future is
to make every mother and child count.
~ Dr.
LEE Jong-wook, WHO Secretary-General
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Every
day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart
disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize
that, in much of the world, the act of giving
life to a child is still the biggest killer
of women of child-bearing age?
-- Liya
Kebede
The
message of our campaign is "Make every mother
and child count". This campaign is not just
about health. It is also a powerful call for
radical progress in women's rights and the rights
of their children. Too often, the health of
mothers and children does not count. In too
many parts of the world, they are forgotten.
-- Liya
Kebede
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Of
all of the forms of inequality, injustice in
health is the most shocking and the most inhumane.
--
Martin
Luther King, Jr
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Life
is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
~ Marcus Valerius Martial
Love
cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones
who receive it.
~ Dr.Karl Menninger
The
welfare and the future of our societies depend on
our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve
the health of every mother and child.
~ Jean Ping, President of the UN General Assembly
"Well
being of the society is linked to safe mothers and
childhood."
~ Honourable Anbumani Ramadoss, Minister of Health
and Family Welfare, India
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Of
all the anti-social vested interests the worst
is the vested interest in ill-health.
-- George
Bernard Shaw, 1911
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It's
bizarre that the produce manager is more important
to my children's health than the pediatrician.
~ Meryl Streep
The
greatest wealth is health.
~ Virgil
Health
is a state of complete physical, mental and social
well-being, and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity.
~ World Health Organization, 1948
