[Current problems of tropical medicine (based on materials of the Military Medical Conference of Countries of the Asian-Pacific Ocean Region)].

The scientific messages presented at the 3rd Asia Pacific Military Medical Conference are scrutinized. The encounter of about 200 military doctors from 14 countries of the appropriate region was heed in Jakarta in 1993, hosted by the Indonesian Army and sponsored by the United States Army Pacific Command. The Conference comprises 3 symposia on: military medicine and humanitarian assistance; malaria and parasitic diseases of military relevance; protecting the troops during tropical deployments. There were 53 reports in all, the leading ones belonged to American authors. Detailed discussions concluded every working day. In the whole the Conference reminded a regional seminar of military doctors in the shape of continuing medical education. The participants got qualification eredits in the field of tropical medicine.