CDC Experts Attend Union World Conference on Lung Health in Guadalajara, Mexico from Oct 11-14
Next week, CDC experts from the Division of Global HIV & TB (DGHT) will join the world’s top scientific researchers at the 48th annual Union World Conference on Lung HealthExternal
At this year’s Union World Conference on Lung Health, CDC researchers will present 18 abstracts and 7 sessions by way of symposiums, courses, oral abstracts, post-graduate courses, and poster presentations. These abstracts range in topic from the impact of TB BASICS in Ethiopia, to TB surveillance among healthcare workers in Nigeria, to TB symptom screening and use of IPT in Kenya, and the effect of latent TB infection and TB disease among healthcare workers in Thailand. Additionally, at this year’s conference, CDC’s Dr. Sarita Shah will be awarded with the Union Scientific Prize. This award is given for extraordinary contributions to research surrounding lung health that has been published in the last five years.
For information on all DGHT abstracts and sessions, see below.
DGHT Presentations and Abstracts
Downloadable PDF versionCdc-pdf
InfographicCdc-pdf
MDR TB fact sheetCdc-pdf
Animated infographic illustrating the burden of drug-resistant TB around the world and what CDC is doing in response
Country profiles showing all of the places that CDC works to fight global TB
Feature stories describing the ways that CDC works to fight drug-resistant TB and TB among children and the mining community
Social media cards on the global TB epidemic you can use to share with your networks