Integrating tobacco control into tuberculosis and HIV responses Implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to address co-morbidities
1 January 2013
| Technical document
Overview
Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV remain among the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, with TB killing 1.7 million people in 2016, and AIDS-related illnesses killing 940,000 people in 2017. Alongside these, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the greatest source of premature death, disability and illness worldwide. Forty million people die from NCDs each year, including 15 million people between the ages of 30 and 69.
WHO Team
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control DGO
Number of pages
12
Copyright
UNDP and the Secretariat of the WHO FCTC