Tajikistan

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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).

Saida

TB blogger

TB&Me: Two years of treatment is a lot for a child

When nine-year-old Mukhamadjon was diagnosed with extrapulmonary (located outside of the lungs) multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), his grandmother Saida supported him through two years of grueling treatment. Here, she shares their story.

11 Apr 2019 / 4 minute read

Gulnora

TB blogger

TB&Me: "In this treatment model you participate in the treatment—you can act for yourself"

When Gulnora's grandma died of tuberculosis, her family didn't realise they could be at risk. She blogs about helping her children through a new model of treatment...

04 Apr 2019 / 6 minute read

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