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Russian Red Cross visiting nurses play a vital role in the fight against
TB. Here, a nurse watches as her patient takes his TB treatment.
A Red Cross nurse takes part in a TB public awareness campaign in Abakan.
Tajikistan: Abdualim Alimov's family has been ravaged by tuberculosis. In
the past three years, five of his children have died and the remaining five
are infected.
A new laboratory, equipped by the Red Cross, will provide quality services
for the patients.
Lutphiya Rahmatuloeva and her son are among the residents of Nonjemas's
derelict former children's TB sanatorium.
In Nonjemas's former TB sanatorium, Lutphiya Rahmatuloeva prepares bread.
By the greatest of tragic ironies, the breakdown of the Soviet health care
system has provided her family with sanctuary.
TB patient Victor Kalashnikov never leaves the one-room apartment he shares
with his mother in Pskov.
As well as medication, Russian Red Cross nurse Valentina Svetlova also
brings Viktor food - social support that will help the treatment.
Cleaners arrive to perform sanitization procedures in a school in Russia's southern city of Stavropol, November 25, 2009. A one-week home quarantine for school children in all schools of Stavropol was ...
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