National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee 2012 Committee Report
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https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2013.37.27Keywords:
tuberculosis, disease surveillanceAbstract
The National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee (NTAC) was established in 1999 as a subcommittee of Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA). The terms of reference of NTAC are:
- to provide strategic, expert advice to CDNA on a coordinated national and international approach to Tuberculosis (TB) control; and
- to develop and review nationally agreed strategic and implementation plans for the control of TB in Australia
This report documents activities undertaken by NTAC in 2012.
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