Sept. 2, 1998 -- An epidemic of multi-drug resistant, or MDR, tuberculosis (TB)
is sweeping through the prison system of the former Soviet Union. The
subsequent spread of regular and MDR-TB to the civilian populations has pushed
Russia, Latvia and Estonia to the World Health Organization's top 10 list of
global TB hot spots. With international travel, the disease can easily spread
to Western Europe and other countries, increasing their health care burdens.
When a relatively small outbreak of MDR-TB hit New York City, some 600 cases in
the early 1990s, the city spent $1 billion in four years to bring it under
control.
To address this growing problem, the Public Health Research Institute (PHRI) is
hosting an International Workshop on TB in Russia on Monday, Sept. 7, 1998 in
Moscow from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (2 a.m. to 9 a.m. E.D.T.) at the Moscow Academy of
Sciences. Participants will include representatives from the Russian Ministry of
Health, Russian Regional Departments of Health, the Russian national and
regional prison administration, WHO, Doctors Without Borders (Medicins sans
Frontiers), the Medical Emergency Relief Network International (MERLIN), the
Central Tuberculosis Research Institute in Moscow, the New Jersey Medical
School's National Tuberculosis Center and PHRI.
Journalists are invited to attend the meeting and a special backgrounder
breakfast, TB in Russia -- Scarier than HIV, on Friday, Sept. 4, 1998 in Moscow
at 9 a.m. (1 a.m. E.D.T.). PHRI is organizing this press opportunity with two
other international non-governmental medical organizations: Doctors Without
Borders (based in Belgium) and MERLIN (based in the United Kingdom).
To attend the Moscow briefing and/or the TB meeting, please contact Oksana
Ivanova at 011 7 095 245-8613. To attend the meeting via a conference call or
to receive an agenda please call Noonan/Russo Communications and ask for Ernie
Knewitz, x 204, Marion
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Contact: Ernie W. Knewitz
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(212) 696-4455 x204
Noonan/Russo Communications
2-Sep-1998
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