Reuters AlertNet Lite - Tajikistan Selects Project HOPE as Principal Partner in New Global Fund Grant for Tuberculosis

Reuters AlertNet Full site

FROM THE FIELD

Tajikistan Selects Project HOPE as Principal Partner in New Global Fund Grant for Tuberculosis

23 Jan 2007 19:49:00 GMT
Source: Project HOPE - USA
Website: Website: http://www.projecthope.org

Previous | Next

Project HOPE and National TB Program laboratory specialists conduct tuberculosis diagnostic training for laboratory specialists in Kurgan-Tube, Tajikistan.

Background

• AIDS

• AIDS pandemic

MORE >>

Over the last seven years, 88-percent of the population in the five Central Asian Republics has been impacted by Project HOPE's tuberculosis (TB) programs. From 1999 to 2004 more than 145,000 new cases of TB were detected using improved diagnostic techniques. Thanks to HOPE programs, 93,600 of those patients were successfully treated.

In Tajikistan, where the program goal is 100-percent national coverage in the World Health Organization's DOTS (Directly Observed Therapy-Short Course), Project HOPE has been designated the Principal Recipient of a new $1 million Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria grant.

"As a non-governmental organization, being selected to participate in this program speaks to Project HOPE's good reputation for implementing TB programs in the region," said Debra S. Reister, Project HOPE's Regional Director for Russia/Eurasia.

The award supports a second phase of activities. During phase I, made possible by a $1.2 million Global Fund grant in 2004, the National TB Program coverage of the population with the DOTS Strategy went from less than 20-percent of the country to close to 80-percent. In addition, the number of cases diagnosed increased by 1,500 patients during this period.

"With Project HOPE's assistance, Tajikistan demonstrates good program results in TB detection and treatment. The cure rate is close to 85 percent," Reister said. "With this grant, we will continue to work with the government of Tajikistan to meet its current and future health needs."

Those needs include expanding TB control program to the whole country and further strengthening of country's system and human capacity to address the disease. Building of a sustainable and effective National TB control program is the ultimate goal of the grant and Project HOPE is proud to assist the country in moving toward this goal.

Notes to editors:

Since 1958, and the SS HOPE - the world's first peacetime hospital ship - Project HOPE's (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) mission is to improve the quality of life of the world's most vulnerable - predominantly women and children - through health education programs and related activities that improve the delivery of health care while building local capacity to sustain improvements after HOPE's assistance ends.

[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]

Email this article Send comments

Topics

• Health

• Tuberculosis

MORE >>

Members

• Project HOPE - USA

MORE >>

Countries

Small country map
© 2004 Europa Technologies Ltd.

Reset map

• Tajikistan profile
· View map

MORE >>

NGO latest

• Tajikistan Selects Project HOPE as Principal Partner in New Global Fund Grant for Tuberculosis
Project HOPE - USA

• The UMCOR Hotline
UMCOR - USA

• Sudan: Medair Provides Urgent Assistance To Newly Displaced People In West Darfur
Medair - Switzerland

• People with AIDS do not have to die: Thousands of lives at stake if PEPFAR isn't allowed to grow
CRS - USA

• Thousands of lives at stake if Congress flat-lines global AIDS funding
CRS - USA

MORE >>

Latest news

• INTERVIEW-Europe may face repeat of winter's bird flu

• Many global bird flu outbreaks unreported -FAO

• S.Africa urged to isolate "killer" TB patients

• Many global bird flu outbreaks unreported -FAO

• S.Africa urged to isolate "killer" TB patients

MORE >>

Last updated:Tue Jan 23 19:53:46 2007