Meetings: Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis
Federal Register: February 14, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 31)
Notices
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (ACET)
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 of the aforementioned committee:
Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., March 26, 2008; 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m., March 27, 2008.
Place: Corporate Square, Building 8, 1st Floor Conference Room,
Atlanta, Georgia 30333, Telephone: (404) 639-8317.
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 issues pertaining to Lessons Learned: Potential for Transmission of Tuberculosis during Air Travel; Tuberculosis as a Cause of Death; and Update on
Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing and Second Line Drug
Susceptibility Guidelines and other related tuberculosis issues.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
Contact Person for More Information: Margie Scott-Cseh,
Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Strategic Business
Unit, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., M/S E-07, Atlanta, Georgia 30333,
Telephone: (404) 639-8317.
The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, has been delegated the authority to sign Federal Register Notices pertaining to announcements of meetings and other committee management activities, for both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
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Dated: February 6, 2008.
Elaine L. Baker,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
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