ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — East Kazakhstan Oblast collaborates with the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in the fight with HIV infection. Thanks to this joint work and innovative approaches, East Kazakhstan is making progress in reaching the ambitious UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals: 91% of people living with HIV know their status; 64% of those people receive sustained antiretroviral therapy; and, 89% have viral suppression, the US Mission in Kazakhstan said on June 6.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — A banking summit of one of the largest financial institutions in the world, the Austrian Raiffeisen Bank, will be held in Tashkent on June 26, the Uzbek Jahon information agency reported with reference to the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Vienna.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on June 5 approved US$ 30 million in grant financing from the International Development Association for the Dushanbe Water Supply and Wastewater Project, which will support improved water and wastewater infrastructure, benefitting the residents of selected areas of Tajikistan’s capital city, Dushanbe. The municipality of Dushanbe will also contribute additional financing of US$ 2 million.

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KABUL (TCA) — A meeting of the US-Europe Group for Afghan Peace was held in Berlin on June 4 with the participation of US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, the head of the UN mission in Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto, special envoys from the EU member countries and Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Idris Zaman. They held wide-ranging discussions on meetings on peace in Afghanistan in Norway, Germany, and Qatar, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s former prosecutor-general Aida Salyanova has been arrested over the early release in 2013 of one of the country’s most notorious crime bosses, Aziz Batukaev.

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KABUL (TCA) — Almost half of all rural Afghans now face some level of food insecurity, a UN agency said on June 3, as an historic drought and deteriorating security grip the country, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported.

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