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1 July 2003 - 14:52 AMT

CIS HEALTH MINISTERS TO CONSIDER JOINT MEASURES TO PREVENT ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA EPIDEMIC

At the suggestion of Armenia, measures of struggle against spreading of atypical pneumonia will be considered at the sitting of the Council on Health Cooperation of the CIS member states opened in Astana today. As advisor of the department of political and humanitarian cooperation of the CIS Executive Committee Grigory Narushevich told “Novosti” Russian agency, the matter will also concern the draft of agreement on cooperation in the sphere of social and hygienic monitoring, interstate center for genetic diagnostics, provision on the order of information exchange in epidemic control. Besides, problems relating to spreading and treating AIDS are planned to be considered.