INCURE (Communicable Diseases Intensive Care Association) is an international public organization uniting physicians, health care professionals, managers, and persons who do not have medical training but share the values of INCURE and are willing to contribute to improving medical care for seriously ill patients with communicable diseases.

The primary objective of INCURE is to improve the treatment of serious cases of communicable diseases (tuberculosis, HIV / AIDS, malaria, viral hepatitis, meningitis) in the world.

STRUCTURE AND MANAGING BODIES

INCURE consists of members of the Association, members of the Board, the Audit Committee and the Executive Office.

Membership in INCURE may be either individual or collective.

BOARD OF ASSOCIATION

President
Yuriy Feshchenko

Doctor of Medical Science, Professor, Director of SO “National Institute of Phthisiology and Pulmonology named after F. G. Yanovsky NAMS of Ukraine”, chief TB specialist of Ukraine.

Vice-President
Nataliia Lytvynenko

Doctor of Medical Science, Chief of MDR TB Department in SO “National Institute of Phthisiology and Pulmonology named after F. G. Yanovsky NAMS of Ukraine”.

Executive Director
Alex Denisov

MD, TB specialist

We invite everyone who shares our interests and wishes to contribute to improving the outcomes in severely ill patients with dangerous infectious diseases to join us.

Actual news:

24/03/2020

World Health Organization (WHO) Information Note Tuberculosis and COVID-19

March 20, 2020. COVID-19: Considerations for tuberculosis (TB) care services As the world comes together to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to ensure that essential services and operations for dealing with long-standing health problems continue to protect the lives of people with TB and other diseases or health conditions. Health services, including national programs to...

17/03/2020

Active or latent tuberculosis increases susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 and the severity of COVID-19

Coronavirus infection COVID-19 (from the COrona VIrus Disease 2019) is a potentially fatal acute respiratory infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 virus (SARS-CoV-2). Currently, the assessment of risk factors associated with COVID-19 is ongoing, which will allow more efficient distribution of health resources in patients with a high probability of severe infection...

27/02/2020

Annual Epidemiological Report on TB in Europe

Annual Epidemiological Report on TB in Europe On February 24, 2020, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published an annual report on tuberculosis in Europe. The analysis was based on data for 2017 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on 5 October 2018. Thirty-one EU/EEA countries reported 55 337 TB cases, 10.7 per 100 000 population. The...