Launch of The Lancet TB Series and The Lancet TB Observatory - Towards the Millennium Development Goals: progress, opportunities, and challenges of tuberculosis control. Pam Das, Executive Editor, The Lancet Mphu K. Ramatlapeng, Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Lesotho Mario Raviglione, Director, Stop TB Department, WHO Rifat Atun, Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Stefan Kaufmann, Professor of Immunology and Microbiology, Charité, University Clinics, Berlin, Germany Ben Marais, Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Embargoed press briefing: Interphone study reports on mobile phone use and brain cancer risk Please note the embargo time: strict embargo until 18 May 2010, at 1:30 am, Paris time. Dr Christopher Wild, Director, IARC Dr Vincent Cogliano, Head, IARC Monographs Program Dr Elisabeth Cardis, Centre for Research in Environnement Epidemiology (CREAL)
Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) - Presentation of the Economic Report on Africa 2010 - Promoting high-level growth to reduce unemployement in Africa - ECA - Mr. Magdi Farahat , ECA Representative in Geneva - UNCTAD - Norbert Lebale, Chief, Africa Section
Launch of the World Health Statistics 2010. Ties Boerma, Director, Health Statistics and Informatics, WHO Carla Abou-Zahr, Coordinator, Statistics, Monitoring and Analysis, WHO
Launch of the new ILO global report "Accelerating action against child labor". Press conference under embargo, for publication on or after 00:01GMT on Saturday 8 May. Ms. Constance Thomas, ILO, Director of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) Mr. Frank Hagemann, ILO, Chief of Policy and Research, IPEC
