TB Pocket Guide for Health Workers Now Available in Uzbek Language
The Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria (GFATM) recently has printed and distributed 10,000 copies of Uzbek-language Pocket Guide on TB for Primary Health Care Workers for the Countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region with High and Medium Burden of TB.
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USAID has provided laboratory equipment, drugs and reagents, training and technical assistance to stop the spread of TB in Uzbekistan
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The Pocket Guide helps primary health care workers to effectively diagnose TB and provide quality treatment to TB patients. The book first became available in all Former Soviet Union
countries after USAID provided financial support to WHO and the New Jersey Medical School to develop the Pocket Guide in Russian in 2004. However, as the majority of the Uzbekistan population speaks Uzbek, it was important to make the book available in the local language, as well.
USAID has been actively assisting Uzbekistan to control the spread of TB since 2000. With USAID support, in 2005, Uzbekistan’s TB program reached 100% geographical coverage of the country, meaning that every TB patient in Uzbekistan can now reach TB services. In recent years, joint USAID and the Ministry of Health efforts and the availability of donor-supplied TB drugs have led to a decrease in the number of deaths due to TB as well as a decrease in the number of new TB cases. The Pocket Guide will help to ensure quality services and contribute to continuing USAID and the Ministry of Health successes in TB diagnosis and treatment in the country.
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