Hundreds of delegates from across the Asia Pacific region met in late April in Manila for a wide range of sessions and symposia, covering TB and other respiratory diseases at the 7th Conference of the Union Asia Pacific Region.
The conference opened with an End TB Summit where a panel of professors, clinicians, and health workers from across Asia Pacific participated in a wide-ranging discussion on the global goal to eliminate tuberculosis (TB). Professor Guy Marks, President-Elect of The Union, highlighted the important role of active case finding in the strategic fight to end TB.
The conference theme Unity in Diversity: One Against Tuberculosis and Other Lung Diseases inspired the presentation of a wide variety of TB research, from basic profiles of a wide spectrum of TB populations, to screening, case finding, diagnosis and treatment of TB. There was also a symposium dedicated to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), which looked at the need to tailor customised GOLD (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease) diagnostic guidelines for resource limited countries, and also whether diagnostic outcomes would be improved through incentivising adherence to the standard guidelines.
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