
Abstracts close 1st June ASPR, Sydney
The 22nd Congress of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology will be held at the Sydney International Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 23-26 November 2017 www.apsr2017.com Abstracts accepted until 1 June 2017 Early bird registration open 3 September 2017

New trial for MDR-TB regimen
The Pragmatic Clinical Trial for More Effective Concise and Less Toxic MDR-TB Treatment Regimen(s) (TB-PRACTECAL) is a multi-center, open label, multi-arm, randomized, controlled phase II-III trial. TB-PRACTECAL, a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) sponsored clinical trial, aims to evaluate short treatment regimens that contain bedaquiline and pretomanid in combination with existing and re-purposed anti-TB drugs for the treatment of biologically confirmed pulmonary MDR- and XDR

TBCRE 6th Annual Symposium June 1st-3rd 2017
A two day symposium showcasing the latest TB research to emerge from Australia will be on from Thursday 1st to Saturday 3rd of June. Dr Gilla Kaplan, the Director of the Tuberculosis programme at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has kindly agreed to attend the TB-CRE symposium and workshop. For further details, including program click here