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    Health workers’ perceptions on where and how to integrate tobacco use cessation services into tuberculosis treatment; a qualitative exploratory study in Uganda

    Tobacco use is associated with exacerbation of tuberculosis (TB) and poor TB treatment outcomes. Integrating tobacco use cessation within TB treatment could improve healing among TB patients. The aim was to ex...

    Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Kellen Nyamurungi, Surabhi Joshi, Yvonne Olando in BMC Public Health (2021)

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    Efficacy of a group tobacco cessation behavioral intervention among tobacco users with concomitant mental illness in Kenya: protocol for a controlled clinical trial

    The rate of tobacco use among people with mental illness is nearly twice that of the general population. Psychotropic medications for tobacco cessation are relatively expensive for most Kenyans. Behavioral cou...

    Yvonne Olando, Mary Kuria, Muthoni Mathai, Mark D. Huffman in BMC Public Health (2019)