Analysis: Threats to global public health

From: Talk of the Nation (NPR) | Date: September 8, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

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Analysis: Threats to global public health

Host: IRA FLATOW Time: 3:00-4:00 PM

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This is TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow.

World leaders are wrapping up this week's UN Millennium Summit in New York. Yesterday, President Clinton told the UN Security Council that the definition of security had to broaden beyond weapons and peacekeeping to issues such as water, health and the environment. `Until we confront the iron link between deprivation, disease and war,' he said, `we will never be able to create the peace that the founders of the UN ...

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