Five-year achievements in the field of TB control in the Kyrgyz Republic

Today, April 5th the conference takes place on the five-year achievements in the field of TB control in the Kyrgyz Republic.

The conference will discuss the results of the reforms in the anti-tuberculosis service in Kyrgyzstan for the last five years, also will determine the strategy of further development of the TB service with the aim of fulfilling key obligations to combat tuberculosis undertaken by the participating countries.

The event was opened by the state Secretary of the Ministry of health Shadyhanov Kalysbek, "tuberculosis is one of the priority directions in policy of the Ministry of health, and we strive to increase public awareness of decision-makers about the devastating consequences of tuberculosis for the health of society, economy and strengthen its efforts to combat a global problem.

"Much has been achieved with the support of USAID. The work done is only part of the iceberg, consider that the protection of health, including TB control, depends not only on the actions of the Ministry of health, and in General from the coordinated efforts of all parties. Therefore, for the eradication of the TB epidemic requires active involvement of all ministries and departments, promoting the population as a whole"-said the head of civic development, religious and ethnic policy of the office of the President Nazgul reporting.

"For greater dissemination of information on tuberculosis prevention workers, health workers conduct interviews with religious leaders," said Director of the National center of Phthisiology, Abdullat Kadyrov.

As noted by the head of mission of USAID in Kyrgyzstan Gary Linden: "too early to speak about complete victory. The most important result of our work is saved of life."

The conference day will focus on the following points:

• Policy to control TB and funding of TB services in the Kyrgyz Republic
• The health system strengthening with the aim of providing quality TB services geared to the patient;
• Innovative approaches in the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/XDR) TB in the Kyrgyz Republic;
• The change in the attitude of society to the problems of TB;

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The main achievements in Kyrgyzstan with USAID projects a five-year "will Win tuberculosis" and "Challenge TB":

• Mortality from tuberculosis reduced by 26% and incidence by 13%.
• Optimize TB services resulted in savings of more than 19 million soms, which were stored in the web service and directed to strengthening the capacity of medical institutions of primary level in order to improve the quality of public services, as well as the purchase of anti-TB drugs, reducing the country's dependence on international donor organizations, providing this type of medication.
• Implemented "patient-oriented" outpatient (i.e. in the community), the treatment of tuberculosis, which allows the patient to be treated in the usual conditions, avoiding the months-long stay at the hospital and, accordingly, financial burden on his family related to the maintenance in the hospital.
• Introduced new modes of treatment (short-term, individual) with the use of modern anti-TB drugs, which enabled in certain cases to reduce the duration of treatment from 24 months to 9 months and greatly facilitate the patient's life and reduce the burden on the state budget.
• The TB laboratory network is given in accordance with modern international standards: embedded advanced, unique for the Central Asia region, the types of laboratory tests; close to the place of residence of patients high-quality laboratory services; developed a new method of transporting sputum, creating the conditions for its timely and reliable delivery at the TB laboratory. All this allowed to achieve more accurate and rapid laboratory results for early diagnosis and initiation of appropriate treatment.

Information taken from the official site of the Ministry of health