Speeches 2005

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• End-of-year message to all WHO staff from the Director-General
  20 December 2005
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Make every mother and child count
  13 December 2005
  Tracking progress in child survival
  London, United Kingdom
• Third GAVI Partners Meeting
  8 December 2005
  New Delhi, India
• International Day of Disabled Persons
  2 December 2005
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Message from the Director-General
  1 December 2005
  1 December 2005
• World AIDS Day
  1 December 2005
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Patient Safety Summit
  28 November 2005
  Patient Safety: A Global Agenda
  London, UK
• Closing session of the 5th Global Forum of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership
  19 November 2005
  Yaounde, Cameroon
• High-Level Forum
  14 November 2005
  Lunchtime session: Update on avian influenza and human pandemic influenza
  Paris, France
• High level Forum
  14 November 2005
  Opening remarks
  Paris, France
• FAO/OIE/WB/WHO Meeting on Avian Influenza and Human Pandemic Influenza
  9 November 2005
  Closing remarks
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Meeting on avian influenza and pandemic human influenza
  7 November 2005
  Opening remarks
  Geneva, Switzerland
• WHO Forum - Making partnerships work for health
  26 October 2005
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Health Ministers Meeting on Global Pandemic Influenza Readiness
  24 October 2005
  Ottawa, Canada
• 113th Inter Parlementarian Union Assembly
  17 October 2005
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Speech on human pandemic influenza
  12 October 2005
  Singapore
• Regional Committee for the Americas, fifty-seventh session
  27 September 2005
  Washington D.C., USA
• Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean, fifty-second session
  24 September 2005
  Cairo, Egypt
• Regional Committee for the Western Pacific, fifty-sixth session
  19 September 2005
  Noumea, New Caledonia
• ASEAN - UN Summit
  13 September 2005
  New York
• Regional Committee for Europe, fifty-fifth session
  12 September 2005
  Bucharest, Romania
• Regional Committee for South-East Asia, fifty-eighth session
  6 September 2005
  Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Health Ministers Meeting
  5 September 2005
  Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Flu pandemic preparedness media briefing
  24 August 2005
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Regional Committee for Africa, fifty-fifth session
  22 August 2005
  Maputo, Mozambique
• 6th Global Conference on Health Promotion
  7 August 2005
  Policy and partnership for action: Addressing the determinants of health
  Bangkok
• People's Health Assembly
  12 July 2005
  Cuenca, Ecuador - Video Address
• Meeting with State Ministers of Health
  30 June 2005
  Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
• Conference of African Health Ministers
  28 June 2005
  Cairo, Egypt
• EMRO Media event
  28 June 2005
  Comments from the Director-General
• Rotary International Centenary Convention
  21 June 2005
  Chicago, USA
• Ministerial Meeting on Health and the Environment
  18 June 2005
  Mar del Plata, Argentina
• Meeting of Health and Environment Ministers of the Americas
  16 June 2005
  Opening Session
  Mar del Plata, Argentina
• Special Award for World No Tobacco Day to Dr Ginés González García, Minister of Health of Argentina
  16 June 2005
  Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Pacific Health Summit - Science, Innovation and the Future of Health
  9 June 2005
  Plenary Session 2: The Impact on Public Health (Panel 3: Infectious Diseases)
  Seattle, USA
• Global Health Council
  2 June 2005
  "Health systems — putting the pieces together" Plenary 2, June 2. "Turning rhetoric into reality"
  Washington DC, USA
• 11th Annual Conference - Thriving in turbulent times - Challenges and Prospects
  31 May 2005
  International Economic Forum of the Americas, Montreal Conference
  Montreal, Canada
• Fifty-eighth World Health Assembly
  25 May 2005
  Closing remarks
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Health Metrics Network Launch
  17 May 2005
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Fifty-Eighth World Health Assembly
  16 May 2005
  Address by the Director-General
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting
  15 May 2005
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Conference on the Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster
  4 May 2005
  Phuket, Thailand
• Bio Vision - The World Life Sciences Forum
  13 April 2005
  Lyon, France
• World Health Day "Make Every Mother and Child Count"
  7 April 2005
  New Delhi, India
• "Lives in the Balance"
  7 April 2005
  Partnerships meeting on maternal, newborn and child health
  New Delhi, India
• Lives in the balance - Statement by the Director-General
  7 April 2005
  Partnerships meeting on maternal, newborn and child health
  New Delhi, India
• High-level Consultation - Acceleration of district-level implementation of the polio eradication initiative
  3 April 2005
  Islamabad, Pakistan
• World TB Day Event
  23 March 2005
  Launch of the Global TB Report
  London, United Kingdom
• Commission on Social Determinants of Health
  18 March 2005
  Official Launch Raúl Prebisch Auditorium, ECLAC
  Santiago, Chile
• Official dinner hosted by President Lagos for the Launching of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health
  17 March 2005
  La Moneda, Presidential Palace, Chile
• International Women's Day - Gender equality beyond 2005: the role of WHO
  8 March 2005
  Panel discussion: The role of WHO in addressing inequities between women and men
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Appointment of Liya Kebede, WHO Goodwill Ambassador for maternal, newborn and child health
  7 March 2005
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Statement on behalf of the Chair United Nations Development Group
  1 March 2005
  Harmonization, Alignment and Results
  Paris, France
• Ceremony of entry into force of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
  28 February 2005
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Second session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Revision of the International Health Regulations
  21 February 2005
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
  31 January 2005
  Opening remarks
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Interactive session: Preparing for the next global health panic
  27 January 2005
  Davos, Switzerland
• Launch of second "3 by 5" progress report
  26 January 2005
  Davos, Switzerland
• Report by the Director-General to the Executive Board at its 115th session
  17 January 2005
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Global Polio Eradication Initiative
  13 January 2005
  Meeting of African Health Ministers
  Geneva, Switzerland
• Consolidated Appeal Process
  11 January 2005
  Geneva, Switzerland

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