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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Branch of the German Caritas Association in Tajikistan (CARITAS), with financial support of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has announced the launch of a new one-year Community Mobilization and Community-Based Rehabilitation project that will operate in 8 selected jamoats (Gharm, Qal’ai Surkh, Qal’anak, Navdi, Nusratullo Makhsum, Navobod, Jafr and Tagoba) of Tajikistan’s Rasht district. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan has adopted a 12-year state strategy for the development of public health including health systems. Tagged “Healthy person – prosperous country”, the new health strategy for 2019–2030 aims to protect health, ensure access to essential quality services, strengthen primary health care and decrease financial hardship for all people and communities, in pursuit of universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on its website on January 23. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Government of Tajikistan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a $32 million grant to help Tajikistan improve healthcare services in three districts of Fayzobod, Rasht, and Shamsiddin Shohin, ADB’s country office said on January 3. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — A new law has come into effect in Turkmenistan that will sharply limit alcohol sales in the tightly controlled Central Asian country, RFE/RL reports. As of January 1, alcohol in the predominantly Muslim country will be forbidden on trains, airplanes, and ferry boats as well as at sports facilities. The country of some 5.6 million people will also prohibit the sale of alcohol on national holidays. Alcoholic drinks are further set to be banned on Saturdays and Sundays in all places except bars and restaurants as of 2021. Currently in the throes of a severe economic crisis with high unemployment and inflation as well as rampant shortages of food items, Turkmenistan is ruled by authoritarian President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, who fashions himself an athlete who excels at many different sports. Berdymukhammedov frequently exhorts Turkmen citizens to engage in sports, and has pledged to make the country tobacco-free by 2025. In his New Year address to the Turkmen nation, President Berdymukhammedov said that a number of the state programs aimed at the development and bringing of health protection, sport, science and education spheres to a new level are implemented in the country, Turkmen state media reported. “We will continue developing and modernizing the health protection system. Special attention will be paid to the assertion of a healthy life style in the society,” the President said. He also mentioned that the United Nations General Assembly declared June 3 as the World Bicycle Day at the initiative of Turkmenistan, adding that “we will pay great attention to the development of sports in new year”.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Government of the Republic of Tajikistan and the European Union on December 19 announced the disbursement of 9.36 million euro as part of the second tranche of the Human Development Support Programme II in Tajikistan, the Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan said. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy Kevin Covert congratulated the Government of Tajikistan on conducting the second Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) at an event on December 14 in Dushanbe. Chargé Covert was joined at the presentation of the 2017 DHS results by Gulnora Hasanzoda, Director of the Agency of Statistics, and Saida Umarzoda, First Deputy Minister of Health and Social Protection of the Population of Tajikistan, the US Embassy in Dushanbe said. Continue reading
