LEE Jong-wook has been elected as the new Director-General of the World Health Organisation. Dr Lee has worked at WHO for 19 years notably leading the fight against two of the greatest challenges to health and development: tuberculous and vaccine preventable diseases of children.
Setting out his new priorities in the first day of his job, Dr Lee said WHO would be producing an action plan, to be published later this year, outlining a new global target of three million HIV+ people on anti-retroviral drugs by 2005.
Born in 1945 in the Republic of Korea, Dr Lee's term will run for five years.
