International Congress Munich 2014

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ERS/WHO joint Hot Topic "Tuberculosis (TB), tobacco and mobile phones" followed by the official launch of the ERS/WHO framework on TB elimination

Hot topics
Chairs: I. Abubakar (London, United Kingdom), M. C. Raviglione (Geneva, Switzerland)
Aims: The aims of this session are to:
- Understand the epidemiological links between tobacco and TB;
- Identify the potential for joint activities at the public health and clinical levels; and,
- Appreciate the different roles that mobile phones and tablet computers can play to facilitate these joint activities.

TB and tobacco: epidemiological links and scope for joint action J-P. Zellweger (Villars-Sur-Glâne, Switzerland)
A mobile phone intervention for improved TB control V. Crudu (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova)
Followed by the official launch of the ERS/WHO framework on TB elimination