[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 69 (Thursday, April 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17623-17624]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-9195]


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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 meeting.

    Name: Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis 
(ACET).
    Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., April 30, 1997; 8:30 a.m.-
4:30 p.m., May 1, 1997.
    Place: Sheraton Colony Square Hotel, Midtown Atlanta, 188 14th 
Street N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30361.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 100 people.
    Purpose: The 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 TB in children; TB 
in the foreign born; issues related to the laboratory

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diagnosis of TB; impact of managed care on TB control efforts; and 
surveillance efforts relating to TB control. Agenda items are 
subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Beth Wolfe, Program 
Analyst, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, 1600 
Clifton Road, NE, M/S E-07, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 404/
639-8008.

    Dated: March 31, 1997.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 97-9195 Filed 4-9-97; 8:45 am]
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