Over the years, I have worked on programs in Africa and around the globe to combat malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV. I have been witness to incredible progress in these fights.
People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?
The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.
We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.
By innovating and investing in health technology, we believe that we can really change the future of health.
More people with HIV/Aids are getting inexpensive anti-retroviral drugs, and their life expectancy has increased, but universal access is still far off, and the disease is still spreading, if more slowly than before.
But I do hope that medicine continues to improve and, in 10 years maybe, they'll be able to fix my body better than they did for the poor guys who are crippled up from playing in the NFL in the '60s and the '70s.
I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.
During my tenure as Minister of Health of Ethiopia from 2005 to 2012, we achieved tremendous progress in tackling the many infectious diseases prevalent in resource-poor countries such as my own.
Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.
I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.
Being on one crutch to no crutches is a huge difference.
My health is very much improved.
We are in the midst of the largest improvement in health care in our nation’s history.
My cholesterol went from 220 to 149. I was crying like a 'Biggest Loser' contestant when my doctor gave me the news.
The 2000 Durban conference prompted action, and since then, great strides have been made in global health and the fight against HIV/AIDS.
