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Tajikistan gained its independence with the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. The country was then plunged into a five-year civil war, which ended in 1997.

The Central Asian country, home to over seven million people, lies to the north of Afghanistan and the west of China, also sharing borders with Uzbekistan and Kyrgyztan.

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) first worked in Tajikistan in 1997. Our projects have largely focused on improving access to healthcare for children with tuberculosis (TB).

Kyle McNally
Advocacy
Protecting the Future: Paediatric TB Care in Tajikistan
What happens to children when there are no effective drugs to treat them? Kyle blogs from Tajikistan about new treatments that are bringing hope to young tuberculosis patients...
01 Jun 2018 / 1 minute read
Leonardo Palumbo
Advocacy
Muzzafar, Mina, Lena: Patients’ stories from Dushanbe
A few weeks back, the MSF Press Office in South Korea had contacted the Uzbekistan and Tajikistan missions, saying that they had a journalist, Young Me Kim from Sisa In, who wanted to do a
23 Mar 2017 / 1 minute read
Gerrit Ritmeester
Logistician
Tajikistan: Celebrating World AIDS Day
The 1st of December was World AIDS Day.
12 Dec 2016 / 4 minute read
Terry Porslid
Mental health specialist
Families Without Fathers
Terry blogs about how broken homes and missing fathers add even more complexities to multi drug resistant TB in Tajikistan...
14 Aug 2013 / 3 minute read
Tajikistan
Multidrug- Resistant Tuberculosis
Terry Porslid
Mental health specialist
Of sticky mouths and contemplation
The holy month for Islamic people is happening now: Ramadan. Tajikistan is a muslim country and many people are observant, so many are fasting...
02 Aug 2013 / 3 minute read
Tajikistan
Multidrug- Resistant Tuberculosis
Terry Porslid
Mental health specialist
Death and dilemma
In today's blog Terry explores how her conviction in it being healthier to express emotion was tested by a heart-breaking dilema...
08 May 2013 / 4 minute read
Tajikistan
Multidrug- Resistant Tuberculosis
Terry Porslid
Mental health specialist
World TB Day
March 24th was World TB Day, sounds like a happy event!
26 Mar 2013 / 2 minute read
Tajikistan
Multidrug- Resistant Tuberculosis
Terry Porslid
Mental health specialist
Navruz
Terry Porslid, examins the importance of festivals and celebrations for anyone's mental health...
24 Mar 2013 / 3 minute read
Tajikistan
Multidrug- Resistant Tuberculosis
Terry Porslid
Mental health specialist
Food, faith and fables
Kids can be fussy eaters at the best of times, as Terry a mental health officer working in a Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis project, discovers...
21 Mar 2013 / 5 minute read
Tajikistan
Multidrug- Resistant Tuberculosis
Terry Porslid
Mental health specialist
Frustration
Terry Porslid, an MSF mental health officer, blogs about the frustrations that can occur when it is difficult to transfer knowledge or communicate...
06 Feb 2013 / 4 minute read
Tajikistan
Multidrug- Resistant Tuberculosis
A Tajik elder sitting on a mat
Terry Porslid
Mental health specialist
Fate and medicine
The Tajik people are big on fate. Their version of the islamic saying ‘inshallah’, which is nazeeb boshad, means more like “if fate so wills” than “if Allah so wills”...
08 Jan 2013 / 5 minute read
Tajikistan
Multidrug- Resistant Tuberculosis
Shoes outside a home in Tajikistan
Terry Porslid
Mental health specialist
Stigma
You know how even back home, people are still reluctant to let it become known that they need psychological help? Terry blogs about the stigma behind seek mental health care...
10 Dec 2012 / 4 minute read
Tajikistan
Multidrug- Resistant Tuberculosis

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