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Conclusions Tobacco smoking could substantially increase tuberculosis cases and deaths worldwide in coming years, undermining progress towards tuberculosis mortality targets.
These findings indicate the need to increase tuberculosis awareness among females attending health facilities for other reasons.
These findings together with a need to try to meet the WHO target for case finding of 70%, meant that the NTP had an enthusiasm for piloting new approaches to increase tuberculosis case finding among poor and vulnerable groups.
Tobacco smoking could substantially increase tuberculosis cases and deaths worldwide by 2050, and potentially delay major goals to control tuberculosis mortality by at least 20 years if current smoking trends continue.
These were: CS 1 Scaling up voluntary counselling and testing services in Kenya CS 2 Working with community providers to increase tuberculosis case finding in Malawi CS 3 Developing quality laboratory diagnostic systems in Nigeria All three case studies met the first criteria of having demonstrated impact on health policy and practice at national or district level.
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We cannot exclude the possibility that the increasing tuberculosis notification rates, fuelled by the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, have led to an increased risk of infection among school-children.
The HIV epidemic has dramatically increased tuberculosis (TB) incidence.
Smoking reduces the point prevalence of active tuberculosis by increasing tuberculosis mortality rates (fig 4).
The HIV epidemic has strongly increased tuberculosis incidences, in particular in sub-Saharan Africa [ 1].
47 According to the model described here, tobacco smoking substantially increases tuberculosis cases and deaths worldwide and might delay the achievement of tuberculosis mortality goals.
The circular migration of miners to and from their home communities poses the risk of increased tuberculosis exposure among home community members.
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