Registration is now open for the 17th Annual Conference of The Union - North American Region, taking place on February 28 to March 2, 2013 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This year's theme is: "TB: The Air We Share". Registration forms and additional information can be downloaded from the BC Lung website:
http://bc.lung.ca/association_and_services/union.html
Highlights of the meeting include:
- STOP TB Meeting - focusing on "International Initiatives: Childhood TB and Other TB Control Interventions"
- Nursing Assembly - "Partnering with Communities to Control TB"
- Beyond TB Lecture - " Health Care for the Homeless: Then and Now"
- The George Comstock Lecture: "The Place of Children in the Global Epidemiology TB"
Plenary Sessions:
- TB and Indigenous Peoples
- Childhood TB: Clinical and Research Agenda
- TB and the City
- The Science of TB Transmission