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Campaigns Increase TB Awareness in Tajikistan

This summer, nearly 14,000 Tajikistanis received information about tuberculosis (TB) from a USAID TB control program implemented by Project HOPE. The innovative project organized six public awareness campaigns in Dushanbe, Rudaki, Kulyab, and Vose, distributing over 6,000 TB education leaflets and staging ten theater performances and 12 puppet shows. As a direct result of these education efforts, over 400 persons who self-reported disease symptoms volunteered for medical exams in the target areas; TB was diagnosed in more than ten percent of those cases.

Tajikistan has the highest TB incidence rate among the five Central Asian Republics.

This theater performance was part of a broader campaign to increase TB awareness in Tajikistan

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