#PublishedToday | "Two of the world’s major scourges – #smoking and #tuberculosis – have combined to give #Indonesia the world’s second highest TB burden, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Report 2023, with India being home to the largest such burden. Indonesia is also infamous for being the global epicentre of tobacco consumption.
Read an important article by noted public health expert Dr TARA SINGH BAM, who leads Vital Strategies as Asia Pacific Tobacco Control Director, and has earlier served International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) as Asia Pacific Regional Director.
✅ ASIA SENTINEL
https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/deadly-intersection-tb-smoking-indonesia
✅ CNS
https://www.citizen-news.org/2024/05/the-deadly-intersection-tb-and-tobacco.html
#endTobacco #endsmoking #quitsmoking #EndTuberculosis #infectionprevention #PreventTB #PreventallTB #dualpandemic #Pandemic #PandemicPreparedness #healthforall #TB #endTB #WorldNoTobaccoDay #WNTD #TaraSinghBam