[Federal Register: March 31, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 61)]
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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.-5 p.m., April 14, 1998; 8:30 a.m.-12 
p.m., April 15, 1998.
    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 development of new 
vaccines for TB; discussions on the 1997 TB surveillance report; TB 
treatment and preventive therapy; prevention activities around 
global TB; and developing long term priorities for TB elimination. 
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Beth Wolfe, 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 25, 1998.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 98-8346 Filed 3-30-98; 8:45 am]
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