"We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks." — Gro Harlem Brundtland

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

The burden of disease falls on the poor.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.