Asian Confce on Diarrhoeal Disease & Nutrition to be held in BD next yr
UNB, Dhaka :
The 15th Asian Conference on Diarrhoeal Disease and Nutrition (ASCODD 2020) will be held on January 28-30, 2020 at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the city.
This year’s theme is “Typhoid, Cholera, other enteric diseases and
their relationship to nutritional disorders: Persisting challenges for low and middle-income countries (LMICs) in an era of humanitarian crisis”.
The theme and significance of the conference is centred on two major burdens of enteric bacterial diseases in this decade – Cholera and Typhoid which together cause 23 million episodes and 300,000 deaths globally.
The conference, organised by icddr,b, focuses on the latest issues in enteric infections, nutrition, policy and practice.
The 15th Asian Conference on Diarrhoeal Disease and Nutrition (ASCODD 2020) will be held on January 28-30, 2020 at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the city.
This year’s theme is “Typhoid, Cholera, other enteric diseases and
their relationship to nutritional disorders: Persisting challenges for low and middle-income countries (LMICs) in an era of humanitarian crisis”.
The theme and significance of the conference is centred on two major burdens of enteric bacterial diseases in this decade – Cholera and Typhoid which together cause 23 million episodes and 300,000 deaths globally.
The conference, organised by icddr,b, focuses on the latest issues in enteric infections, nutrition, policy and practice.
