Title: Out-of-Pocket Expenditures for Primary Health Care in Tajikistan: a time-trend analysis.

Central Asian region has witnessed a dramatic ‘rise of the HIV tide’ over the last decade. This article provides a historical overview, describes the process of domestication, and examines legal, social and political dimensions of the HIV epidemic in Tajikistan in order to highlight existing contradictions and barriers in HIV policy-making and program implementation in that country. The respons...

We have been working on an association of physicians ‘links with developing countries’ scheme in Tajikistan, which is a nation of 7.5 million people, 93% of which is mountainous, of a similar size to England and Wales, landlocked, resource-poor and richly licked by the brush of history. Understanding the challenges faced by academics working with Tajikistan today requires a cursory understandin...

This study aimed to determine HIV, HCV, and syphilis prevalence and correlates, and to characterize the molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. A cross-sectional study assessing risk factors for HIV and HCV through an interview administered survey was conducted. A total of 491 active adult IDUs were recruited from May to November 2004 in Dushan...

Aim. To analyze the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Republic Tajikistan. Material and methods. An analysis among adult population Tajikistan period 2015-2019 according to annual reports State Institution “Center for Statistics under President Tajikistan” was conducted. Results discussion. During study period, there a dynamic increase country, either by region residence or general population....

For epidemiologic investigations, the primary subdivision of Salmonella Typhi is vi-phage typing; 106 Vi-phage types are defined. For multidrug-resistant strains the most common types have been M1 (Pakistan) and E1 (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Arabian Gulf); a strain untypable with the Vi phages has been responsible for a major epidemic in Tajikistan. Most often, isolates from the Indi...

BACKGROUND Tajikistan and other Central Asian republics are facing intertwined epidemics of injecting drug use and HIV. This paper aims to examine drug scene, drug use, drug-related infectious diseases, drug treatment and other responses to health consequences of drug injecting in two Tajik cities of Kulob (Khatlon Region) and Khorog (Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast). METHODS We conducted ...

BACKGROUND Tajikistan has the highest incidence rate of tuberculosis (TB) in Central Asia. Its health system still bears many features from Soviet times and is under-funded. Affordability is a major barrier to health care. Little is known about health care seeking of TB patients in post-Soviet countries and their delay until the start of TB therapy. The low estimated case detection rate in Taji...