On 30 October 2014, the Dnipropetrovs'k College of Technology of the State Automobile and Highway Administration hosted a public education event ‘Youth Health and Biomedical Threats in Ukraine’, which was attended by the lecturers of the Department of Ecology of the NMU, V. Fedotov and Y. Buchavyi. The college students were presented with materials about the epidemic and means of preventing tuberculosis and hepatitis-C, as well as about new biological threats of our time. The event was organised by the M. Svetlov Regional Library for Youth.