A symposium on Tuberculosis and AIDS was inaugurated here today. The 3-day symposium is organized by the executive bureau of the council of the GCC health ministers in cooperation with WHO, AGFUND, King Saud university and King Abdulaziz City for Sciences and Technology (KACST). Dr Tawfiq Khoja, the director general of the executive bureau for the council of the GCC health ministers, said the organization of the symposium comes within the framework of the cooperation agreement concluded with the special program for research and training in the field of equatorial diseases. The participants of the symposium will deliver papers on Tuberculosis and AIDS as well as challenges in this respect.