Post on 28-Dec-2015
Orientation of the district level health workers for TB and Tobacco integration and training on counselling for smoking cessation
Kathmandu, April 7 – 8, 2014
Tobacco as a risk factor for TB and screening strategies
Giampaolo MezzabottaMedical Officer/TuberculosisWorld Health OrganizationNepal Country Office
How tobacco influences TB
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smoking-related cough can mask TB, thus delaying patients’ care seeking behaviour and making harder for clinicians to recognize TB.
SMOKING?
Estimated number of cases
Estimated number of deaths
1.3 million*• 74.000 in children• 410.000 in women
8.6 million• 0.5 m in children• 2.9 m in women
450,000
All forms of TB
Multidrug-resistant TB
HIV-associated TB 1.1 million (13%)
320,000
Source: WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2013 * Including deaths attributed to HIV/TB
The global burden of TB -2012
170,000