International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD)--20th Eastern Region conference. 4-7 June 1999, Wanchai, Hong Kong.
This biennial conference was hosted jointly by the Hong Kong Tuberculosis Chest and Heart Diseases Association (under the auspices of the Eastern Region of the IUATLD), the Hong Kong Thoracic Society and the American College of Chest Physicians (Hong Kong and Macau Chapter). It attracted over 1000 delegates, most of whom came from the Asian Pacific Region. There were 25 countries represented. The main themes of the meeting were strategies for dealing with common lung diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer and tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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Department of Pharmacology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. jpseale@med.usyd.edu.au