Laura and I were saddened to learn of the death of Dr. Lee Jong-wook. As the world's top health official, Dr.
President [Bush]. I know we're going to win, and our troops need to hear, not only are they supportive but that we have got a strategy that will win. Oh, there's pessimists, you know, and politicians who try to score points. But our strategy is one that is-will lead us to victory. The only thing that the enemy has got going for them is the capacity to take innocent life and to get on our TV screens with this devastation that they cause. These people cannot stand free societies.
WASHINGTON, May 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Public Health Association (APHA) and the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) today mourn the passing of Lee Jong-Wook, MD, MPH, who championed the health of people across the globe as director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO). Prior to joining WHO, Dr. Lee was already renowned for his dedication to protecting people around the world from the threat of infectious and chronic diseases," said Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, executive director of the American Public Health Association. "As the head of WHO, Dr. Lee further advocated for public health concerns across the spectrum, from tuberculosis and tobacco control to providing global leadership on preparedness for avian influenza and a prevention strategy ...
We can now see the clear benefit of scaling up HIV treatment and prevention together and not as isolated interventions," said WHO Director-General Dr LEE Jong-wook. "Treatment availability provides a powerful incentive for governments to support, and individuals to seek out, HIV prevention information and voluntary counseling and testing. Effective prevention can also help reduce the number of individuals who will ultimately require care, making broad access to treatment more achievable and sustainable. "We are encouraged by the gains that have been made in some countries and by the fact that sustained HIV prevention programs have played a key part in bringing down infections. But the reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip global and national efforts to contain it," s...
N. health expert dies after surgery GENEVA Dr. Lee Jong-wook, who led the U.N. health agency's battles against SARS and bird flu, died Monday after surgery for a blood clot in the brain. He was 61.
Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the selection of Dr. Margaret Chan of China as its new director general, replacing the late Dr. Lee Jong-Wook. Media attention to Dr. Chan's selection to head the pre-eminent health agency underscores a welcome transformation as the developed world focuses on the importance of global health. In recent years, issues related to the health of the world's poorest citizens have seized the unprecedented attention of governments, philanthropies and policymakers. For example, the World Economic Forum and leaders from the G-8 major industrial nations' summit have made improving global health a top priority. Organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Clinton Foundation and Medecins Sans Frontieres support health program...
International epidemiologists and officials of a growing number of countries are concerned that bird flu could mutate into a virulent form of human flu that could kill millions across the globe. They urge a united international front to defend against it. It's coming," says Dr. Lee Jong-wook, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), who urges intensified planning now. "When the pandemic starts, it will simply be too late.
In an interview, World Health Organization director-general Dr. Lee Jong-Wook says the AIDS pandemic is one of the most difficult social, political, economic, and medical problems the world currently faces. Building health systems and other infrastructure in developing countries is a vital part of the organization's 3-by-5 initiative, which seeks to treat 3 million people living with AIDS by the end of 2005. With huge increases in air traffic and readier access to remote places, risks to human health have grown. One of the organization's primary roles is to assist its 192 member states in attaining the highest possible level of health. The World Health Assembly adopted a resolution in 2000 that recognizes food safety as an essential public health function, and the World Health Organizat...
In Sub-Saharan Africa, timely and reliable access to life saving HIV/AIDS drugs and related commodities by millions of African people living with HIV/AIDS is severely undermined by healthcare supply chain inefficiencies. In response to improve the management of healthcare supply chain and ensure patients' timely access to antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and antiretroviral therapy (ART), the so-called new Partnership for HIV/AIDS Supply Chain Management (NPHASCM) was initiated. NPHASCM is an amalgamation of 15 organizations with competencies in healthcare delivery and supply chain management charged with facilitating rapid response and efficient delivery of HIV/AIDS ARV and ART to Africans living with HIV/AIDS and people living with HIV/AIDS in other developing countries. Indeed, to achieve s...
... Therapy Needs: Director- General Lee Jong-wook of WHO succinctly de- clared that "a comprehe...
... Hemoglobinuria (PNH)," presented by Jong Wook Lee at the 53rd American Society of Hematolog...
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