[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 60 (Wednesday, March 27, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13503-13504]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-7387]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis: Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announces the following council meeting.

    Name: Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis 
(ACET).
    Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5p.m., April 25, 1996; 8:30 a.m.-1 
p.m., April 26, 1996.
    Place: Corporate Square Office Park, Corporate Square Boulevard, 
Building 11, Room 1413, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 100 people.
    Purpose: This council advises and makes recommendations to the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Assistant Secretary for 
Health, and the Director, CDC, regarding the elimination of 
tuberculosis. Specifically, the Council makes recommendations 
regarding policies, strategies, objectives, and priorities; 
addresses the development and application of new technologies; and 
reviews the extent to which progress has been made toward 
eliminating tuberculosis.
    Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items include: an update on 
research and TB among the foreign-born; considerations for managed 
care; newly approved rapid diagnostic tests for TB; recommendations 
for public health advocacy in TB during continuing decreases in 
morbidity trends; organizational approaches to community-based TB 
control in a managed care environment; challenges for local health 
departments in TB control at a community level managed care 
environment; and a pilot study of the effects of Medicaid managed 
care on structures, processes, and outcomes relevant to community-
wide TB prevention and control.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Tracy Whitnell, Program 
Analyst, National

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Center for HIV/STD/TB Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, M/S E-07, 
Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 404/639-8006.

    Dated: March 21, 1996.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 96-7387 Filed 3-26-96; 8:45 am]
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