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195 sentences in 91 speeches for health
Download CSVGhana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 9 sentences
- Similarly, global health security demands true solidarity because pathogens do not respect national borders.
- We must build an equitable global health architecture that guarantees regional manufacturing of vaccines and therapeutics, strengthen epidemic surveillance, and funds resilient public health infrastructure across the global south in accordance with the demands of the Accra Reset.
- And that is why we are pursuing an aggressive national infrastructure agenda under our Big Push program to build roads, expand digital connectivity, construct schools and health facilities.
- Central to our national reset is a revolutionary expansion of social protection, universal healthcare, delivering on the sustainable development goals, specifically SDG 1 on poverty, SDG 3 on good health and well-being, and SDG 10 on reduced inequalities.
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 8 sentences
- Economic and social progress, however, remain vulnerable to global health crisis.
- No country can protect itself from a global health emergency alone.
- Yet, even as we recover from that crisis, recent resurgences of impox, recurring Ebola outbreaks, and other emerging infectious diseases remind us that our health system must remain vigilant and resilient.
- Critical, the international community must support African countries in developing robust local and regional capacities to manufacture essential pharmaceuticals and health products.
Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 8 sentences
- The current international financial architecture forces developing nations to choose between servicing predatory debts and investing in health, education, and climate resilience.
- The current system traps developing nations in cycles of unsustainable debt, forcing governments to choose between servicing foreign loans of funding basic education and health care for their citizens.
- Mr. President, the fourth opportunity for restoring trust Managing transformation and thereby ensuring a United Nation that delivers for all lies in strengthening global health security.
- Economic transformation and sustainable development are impossible without a health population.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 7 sentences
- The same ambition guides our health policy.
- We're continuing the gradual expansion of universal health coverage, in particular through free maternity care.
- improve maternal and newborn care, vaccination, access to essential medicines, the strengthening of the health care workforce, and by expanding social protections.
- Mr. President, every health crisis confirms the same truth.
Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- As he prepares to turn this important page of his life, I wish him, on my own behalf and on behalf of the entire Burundian people, every success in his new endeavors, as well as good health and a future filled with serenity and prosperity.
- This choice is particularly significant because water is life, water is health, water is food security, water is energy, and water is also in certain regions a matter of peace and stability.
- We invite our partners to view water not merely as a natural resource, but as a strategic investment in peace, health and sustainable development.
- We are determined to transform our agriculture, develop our infrastructure, improve access to energy and water, strengthen education and health, and promote a dynamic private sector.
Botswana · Duma Gideon Boko · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- Mr. President, Health is where the promise of international solidarity is tested most directly, and Botswana speaks from hard-earned experience.
- We achieved the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets ahead of schedule, and we became the first African country to achieve World Health Organization silver tier status for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
- That partnership helped to mitigate an epidemic by means of one of the world's most successful national responses and placed Botswana firmly on the path towards ending HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
- And we deliver for all when our decisions translate into tangible improvements in peace, security, development, health, and human dignity.
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing activities, transnational crimes, and environmental degradation threaten not only our economies, but the health of our marine environment as well.
- Mr. President and Excellencies, our people's health has been increasingly affected by more frequent tropical storms, heat waves, and changing tidal patterns.
- Already, the burden of non-communicable disease strains our health system, reduces workforce productivity, and diverts limited resources.
- We are strengthening our national health capacity, increasing investment in diagnostic and life-saving medicine, expanding the use of telehealth to access specialist care, and medical education, and partnering with neighboring countries to support regular medical exchange programs that augment our treatment capability in country.
Antigua and Barbuda · Walton Alfonso Webson · Day 6 · 5 sentences
- Mental health challenges are increasing.
- Antigua and Barbuda will continue to champion mental health, strengthen our universal health programs to address non-communicable diseases and place eye health firmly within our development priorities.
- This November, Antigua and Barbuda will host along with the Commonwealth Heads of Government, a global eye health summit the first of its kind, to move the international community from advocacy to action against the growing burden of preventable sight loss.
- We invite Member States and partners to join us and support an eye health compact that expands access, strengthens prevention and treatment.
Uganda · Jessica Rose Epel Alupo · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Under NDP4, we are expanding health investments to ensure accessible, affordable, and equitable healthcare across the country.
- This includes modernizing health centers, upgrading regional referral hospitals, and integrating digital health solutions to improve service delivery and accountability.
- We are actively addressing the dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and our responses to HIV/AIDS combine strong political leadership with sustained community involvement, keeping Uganda on track to achieve the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets and contribute to ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
- Having successfully contained outbreaks such as the Bundibugyo Ebola virus, Uganda has built a resilient public health framework.
Barbados · Mia Amor Mottley · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- And despite unprecedented global wealth, millions remain without reliable access to food, water, health, or shelter.
- Artificial intelligence is opening extraordinary possibilities in health, education, science, and productivity, while also creating new risk of exclusion, exploitation, surveillance, and the distortion of truth.
- At the V20 ministerial dialogue in April of this year, the finance ministers agreed that methane reduction must be treated not only as an environmental priority but also an economic, fiscal, and public health opportunity.
- To expand access to affordable, long-term capital for education projects, health projects, and water infrastructure.
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, universal health coverage remains central to our development agenda.
- While investment have been made, we continue to face serious public health challenges, including a high burden of communicable and non-communicable disease and inequalities in access to health.
- primary health, medicines, vaccines, diagnostics, and robust disease surveillance and pandemic preparedness.
- We therefore call for enhanced cooperation in technology sharing, capacity building, and sustainable health financing to build resilient health systems capable of responding to current and emerging challenges.
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Nowhere is that promise to universal social protection more concrete than in our health services.
- As non-communicable diseases and a rapidly aging population place growing pressure on our health system, We are strengthening public healthcare through major investment, improved service delivery, expanded specialised care, and a greater focus on prevention.
- We thus welcome the holding of the 2027 High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage, and Mauritius stands ready to contribute to that global effort.
- Mauritius supports the conclusions of the terms of benefit sharing guaranteeing vulnerable countries real access to affordable, safe, effective, and quality medicines including generics, vaccines, diagnosis, diagnostics and health technologies.
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- We encourage our cooperating partners to view Zambia through the lens of the peace and stability that defines our country and to deepen support programs that promote inclusive economic growth, job creation, infrastructure development, human capital development, agriculture, energy, health, and other priority areas of national development.
- In the health sector, Zambia has increased domestic budgetary allocations from approximately 7% to over 10%, enabling the recruitment of health workers, expansion and modernization of health infrastructure, and improved availability of essential medical supplies.
- Recognizing continued vulnerability to epidemics, Zambia calls for the expedited conclusion of negotiations on the pathogen access and benefit sharing annex under the World Health Organization pandemic agreement, alongside strengthened access to technology and preparedness capabilities to detect and respond to future health threats.
- High borrowing costs, limited fiscal space and heavy debt servicing obligations continue to constrain countries' ability to invest in climate action, health, education, infrastructure and development priorities.
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 3 sentences
Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- We condemned the genocide against defenseless population, the elderly, women, children, bedridden patients, health professionals, journalists and workers of international humanitarian organizations who are often deprived of access to most basic human rights and to essential goods for life such as water, food and medicines.
- African countries spend far more resources on the exorbitant cost of debt servicing than they are able to invest in health, education, infrastructure development programs.
- Today, peoples and nations have an opportunity to make a qualitative leap in their overall living conditions through fair financing mechanisms for development and tools provided by artificial intelligence in order to improve education, health, agriculture, public service, scientific research and economic productivity.
Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- The Republic of Korea is pursuing an AI transformation that will ensure stronger protection of human fundamental rights across fields such as social security, labor, housing, and culture, beginning with our AI universal basic health program.
- We will take the lead in shaping AI into a tool for solving the shared challenges we face, such as the climate crisis, public health, food insecurity, and refugee issues.
- We hope that opportunities will emerge for us to work together in the international community in areas such as public health, disaster response, and the climate crisis.
Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- where some allege a public health policy error, we see a global experiment in social control disguised as science.
- And when a state wearing public health blinkers deprives its population of the right to work, to receive an education, and to bid farewell to their dead, this results in millions of unavoidable deaths.
- That happens in many countries, including Argentina, which boasted of being the World Health Organization's star pupil And that is why we decided to leave the World Health Organization.
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- Resilience is also about safeguarding public health.
- No country should have to choose between health of its children and the commercial interest of an industry that is built on addiction.
- We call for stronger international cooperation to protect young people from nicotine dependence and to put public health before profit.
Hungary · András Bálint Baka · Day 3 · 3 sentences
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- The above would enable developing countries to invest in education, health, agriculture, climate resilience, and other productive sectors to holistically address their interconnected challenges.
- We are expanding our solar energy in schools and health facilities, modernizing our electric network, and advancing a 150-megawatt solar park.
- We must strengthen cooperation for safe, orderly, and regular migration, protect the rights and dignity of migrants, and expand lawful pathways for labor mobility, as well as invest in young people, women, education, health, and social protection to safeguard sustainable development and lasting peace.
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- That revenue is going into our own security, to agriculture, electrification, water and sanitation, education, health, the health of our fellow citizens.
- On health, we have reduced by 50% the cost of services in public health facilities.
- With Algeria, we are also engaging in dynamic cooperation in the areas of health, education, energy, water, and agriculture.
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Resources intended for education, Health, water and social protection are now diverted to disaster recovery.
- Excellencies, non-communicable disease represents one of the most serious development challenges to Samoa's public health and economic productivity.
- In response, we are shifting towards prevention through strengthening health literacy, reforming school nutrition and food environments, and early intervention programs.
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- We are also strengthening food security to climate smart support for farmers and healthcare to our locally developed national digital health information system at the Joseph N. Franz General Hospital.
- Earlier this year, we joined our Member States in requesting Taiwan's observer participation in the 79th World Health Assembly.
- We continue to support its meaningful participation in the World Health Organization, the International Civil Aviation Organization, and other relevant mechanisms, and reiterate that differences across the Taiwan Strait must be resolved peacefully.
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Reaffirming our commitment advancing primary health care as the cornerstone of universal health coverage, we call upon the UN member states to join the Global Coalition on Primary Health Care. 2026 has been designated by this body as the International Year of Volunteers.
- The Regional Ecological Summit held in Astana in April reaffirmed that climate, water, food, and health challenges cannot be addressed in isolation.
- Water underpins public health, food and energy security, climate resilience and peace.
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- health care for their families, roads connecting their communities, food security and economic opportunities, justice and equality, strong institutions, and a government whose authority ultimately drives from the will of its people.
- For a mother, access to health care is development.
- South Sudan doctors abroad can contribute to health care.
Costa Rica · Boris Vasir Marchegiani Carrero · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Illegal mining, spearheaded by transnational criminal organizations on our border with Nicaragua, has wrought havoc on the environment, and is producing risks to public health, the economy, and regional security.
- They converge in one global crisis that is imperiling food security, public health, and development opportunities for millions and millions of people.
- To conclude, President Excellencies, one and all, Costa Rica wishes peace, health, and blessings to each and every one of you.
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- For Dominica, this means resilient roads and bridges, resilient buildings, reliable communications, modern water systems, strengthened health infrastructure, and disaster-ready communities.
- The SDGs represented a promise that by 2040, we would make meaningful progress in ending poverty and hunger, improving health and education, advancing equality, protecting our planet, and building more peaceful and inclusive societies.
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Since becoming a member state of the United Nations in 1956, Japan has acted decisively to address global challenges such as eradication of poverty, economic and social development, women's empowerment, climate change, and global health.
- Additionally, Japan has been promoting initiatives towards achieving universal health coverage, UHC, across the globe.
Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- The most prominent of which are perhaps the royal initiative to enable Sahel states to access the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the African Atlantic States process, the African Atlantic gas pipeline project, as well as investments in regional infrastructure, cooperation in the areas of food security, fertilizer production, and training programs for African executives This is in addition to partnerships in the areas of health, renewable energy, and water resource management.
- Alongside with its firm commitment to the final settlement of this regional dispute, affected regional dispute, the Kingdom of Morocco steadfastly continues to drive social and economic development in its southern provinces, particularly in areas of infrastructure, university education, health sector, and airports, among others.
Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- The most vulnerable populations affected repeatedly or continuously by health crises, food insecurity and hunger, the impacts of climate change and conflicts exacerbated by current geopolitical tensions, sometimes come to feel a certain skepticism regarding our collective capacity within the United Nations system to respond to the scourges of our age.
- Faced with the challenges of a constantly changing world, the refoundation government that I lead places food sovereignty, health and education at the heart of its action.
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, digital communications, and other extraordinary breakthroughs offer the prospect of transforming health, education, agriculture, productivity, and public services on a scale scarcely imaginable a generation ago.
- In Guyana, we have made significant advances including universal health care, free education, modern infrastructure, accelerated access to affordable housing, opportunities for full employment, acceleration of financing for small and medium-sized enterprises and digitizing service delivery.
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- These painful fiscal trade-offs come at the expense of investment, in the education and health, which should never be the case.
- We also continue to strategically increase investment in education, health, and human capital, despite the pressures created by geopolitical tensions, recurrent climate shocks, and rising global prices.
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Because the best argument for multilateralism is what it delivers on peace and security with the Treaty of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, on climate action with the Paris Agreement, on poverty and health with the global response to COVID-19.
- The EU and its Member States together represent more than 40% of official development assistance at the global level and through our Global Gateway initiative, we are investing in all fields, connectivity, health, education and eradication of poverty.
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- To achieve this goal, the government has already launched assistance programs for economically disadvantaged people through various social protection programs, including the Family Card, Farmers Card, Sports Card, and e-Health Card.
- The Government of Bangladesh has accorded special importance to education, health and sports.
Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- We are strengthening our health system with a renewed focus on tackling the scourge of non-communicable diseases, eradicating malaria, and building a new national referral hospital.
- Mr. President, our development partnerships play an indispensable role in expanding infrastructure, maritime connectivity, health and education, and in improving the lives of Solomon Islanders.
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- The intersectional Mano a Mano strategy brings together health, education, housing, nutrition, and community development to address poverty at the local level.
- In health care, We have expanded and refurbished facilities, strengthened regional services, and made progress in the comprehensive treatment of chronic diseases and cancer.
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- Health security has become an essential component of collective security.
- And here, we will continue supporting the strengthening of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville and will shoulder all of its responsibilities in accordance with the 1952 Headquarters Agreement.
New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- For us, security also means food security, energy security, water security, health security, economic security, cybersecurity, environmental security, and the security of our people from the impacts of climate change.
- They affect food and water security, agriculture, fisheries, health, livelihoods, and the resilience of already vulnerable communities.
Benin · Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- They must accelerate their development and at the same time fund their energy transition as well as adapt to climate change, on top of investing in health, education, the digital sphere, and meeting growing social needs.
- AI can broaden access to knowledge, improve health systems, support agricultural workers, and make state administrations more efficient.
Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Peru · Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Denis Bećirović · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Naoero · David Ranibok Adeang · Day 1 · 1 sentence
United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 1 sentence
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Czechia · Petr Pavel · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Guinea · Mamadi Doumbouya · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Honduras · Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Palestine (State of) · Mahmoud Abbas · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Rodrigo Paz Pereira · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Senegal · Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Côte d’Ivoire · Tiémoko Meyliet Koné · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Mexico · Roberto Velasco Álvarez · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Sweden · Maria Malmer Stenergard · Day 4 · 1 sentence
China · Han Zheng · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cabo Verde · Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Holy See · Cardinal Pietro Parolin · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Nicaragua · Valdrack Ludwing Jaentschke Whitaker · Day 5 · 1 sentence
India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Indonesia · · Day 6 · 1 sentence