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 topicsChairs: 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.