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19
June
Information about influenza A(H1N1)v

With collaboration with ECDC in our website you can find ECDC baner that you can use like link to the ECDC website what hosts a page dedicated to influenza A(H1N1)v.

 
 
 
01
April
WHO calls drug-resistant TB a time bomb as the Gates Foundation and Chinese government announce a $33 million initiative to fight it

1 April 2009 - Beijing -- WHO Director-General Margaret Chan warned today that the global epidemic of drug-resistant TB is poised to spin out of control and urged countries to fight the growing threat.

 
 
 
18
March
World TB day in Latvia in 2009

Every year March 24 is to commemorate as the World TB day to draw people attention to infection disease which is curable more than 50 years, but despite of this from TB die more than one and half a million people every year in the world.
Latvia this year organise campaign addressed to most vulnerable social risk groups for TB.

 
 
 
20
October
Winners of the Stop TB journalism award announced in Paris

16 October 2008 - Paris -- The Stop TB Partnership today announced the winners of the Award for Excellence in Reporting on Tuberculosis 2008.

 
 
 
09
October
A major campaign to raise awareness about XDR-TB was launched today by TED

Photographs depicting XDR-TB taken by James Nachtwey, winner of the 2007 TED Prize, will be viewed in giant screenings in 50 cities around the globe, and across the web, through a multimedia campaign.

 
 
 
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