Bangkok--23 Mar--TQPR
Although many people haven’t heard of it, the WHO estimates that pneumococcal meningitis and pneumonia kills 1.6 million people each year – more than malaria. Up to 1 million of these deaths are babies and children, and nearly all occur in poorer countries. Pneumococcal disease is serious, common, and now preventable as well.
TQPR (Thailand) on behalf of PneumoADIP, would like to cordially invite you to attend the press briefing which is being held in conjunction with the three-day closed-day WHO Pneumococcal & Hib Surveillance Investigators Meeting from 28th to 30th March 2007. Also, we receive honour from Dr Supamit Chunsuttiwat, Ministry of Health, Thailand as one of guest speaker.
Date:
Thursday, 29 March 2007
Time:
1:00 - 2.30P.M.
Location:
Park B Room, Nai Lert Park Hotel, Bangkok (Wireless road, BTS: Ploenchit)
Event:
Important international meeting of experts to discuss progress in surveillance for pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis caused by S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae
Hear about:
Local and regional progress in establishing the burden of pneumococcal disease, including the progress made by Sri Lanka and the SAPNA project.
Pneumococcal disease as a global health problem and the progress being made by WHO and PneumoADIP to accelerate access to life-saving pneumococcal vaccines.
TQPR (Thailand) on behalf of PneumoADIP, is very much looking forward to welcoming you to this press briefing. Translation will be provided by simultaneous translation headphone. For further information as well as confirmation, please contact Khun Aom or myself at TQPR at 0-2260-5820 ext. 117, 08-6633-8171 or e-mail: [email protected]
TQPR (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Pneumococcal Vaccines Accelerated Development and Introduction Plan (PneumoADIP)
PneumoADIP’s mission is to improve child survival and health by accelerating the evaluation of and access to new life saving pneumococcal vaccines for the world’s children. This novel approach is funded by the GAVI Alliance and the GAVI Fund. PneumoADIP is located at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For more information, please visit: www.preventpneumo.org .
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