Asian Confce on Diarrhoeal Disease & Nutrition to be held in BD next yr

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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.
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