Eliminating human tuberculosis in the 21st century
Event details
| Date | 20.02.2009 |
| Hour | 12:15 |
| Speaker | Dr Christopher Dye |
| Location |
AAB 0 32
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Recognizing that tuberculosis is still the biggest cause of human death from a curable infection, the international health community has set ambitious targets for control. One target is to eliminate TB by 2050, which means cutting the number of new cases arising each year to less than 1 per million population. This talk will illustrate the successes and failures of 20th century TB control, describe the scale of the task facing national TB control programmes now, and assess the biological, technological, and social obstacles to removing TB as a threat to public health.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- Prof. Stewart Cole