Mainly because it enhanced my awareness of challenges the world is facing and in turn, my understanding of the various UN programs and initiatives being implemented to respond to these challenges.
Mr. Carney said that the Obama administration has "made clear to the leadership in Yemen, as we have to the leadership in other countries, that they need to focus on the political reforms that they need to implement to respond to the legitimate aspirations of their people".
This is evident when one considers that screening of orders by DNA synthesis firms is the only policy measure that has (to some extent) been implemented to respond to concerns raised about the potential misuse of synthetic biology.
Firstly, assessment of patients' QoL gives better understanding of their needs, and so of the measures that need to be implemented to respond to them, as has already been documented by Greenhalgh [ 7].
There is, of course, much room for debate about what policies should be implemented to respond to climate change and its impacts, but uncertainty is not a reason for inaction.
Changes to infrastructure, novel institutional arrangements and expanded services will take time to develop and implement to respond to an older population with unprecedented cultural and income diversity.
WHO recommended all nations to implement public health measures to respond to the suspected and confirmed EVD cases and for the international community to strengthen their support towards the affected countries [ 4, 5].
While it is acknowledged that most countries need to take incremental steps towards implementing comprehensive health policies to respond to the needs of all citizens, very few have a well designed systematic plan to achieve this [ 75].
So the American administration is immediately speaking of Mubarak's "opportunity... to implement political, economic and social reforms to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people".
Rather than calling on the dictator to step down, she encouraged him to take more responsible leadership, saying, "We believe strongly that the Egyptian government has an important opportunity at this moment in time to implement political, economic and social reforms to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people".
