Tajikistan’s RCS conducts survey to determine TB awareness in Vose and Hamadoni districts

KULOB, October 14, 2011 Asia-Plus  -- Volunteers from Tajikistan’s Red Crescent Society (RCS) are conducting survey in 50 villages of the Vose and Hamadoni districts (25 volunteers in each of the districts) in Khatlon’s Kulob region to determine the population’s awareness of tuberculosis, Zayniddin Olimov, executive director of RCS’s office in Kulob, said in an interview with Asia-Plus.

According to him, the survey is conducted in the framework of the TB risk reduction project that is being implemented here under support of the Finnish Red Cross (FRC).

“Vose and Hamadoni districts have the highest per capita tuberculosis burden in Tajikistan and every year, 136 to 300 new cases of tuberculosis are being detected in each of these districts,” Olimov said.

The FRC-supported TB risk reduction project covers 127 villages (totaling 320,000 people) in Vose and Hamadoni districts, the head of RCS’s office in Kulob noted.  “The project’s activity is aimed at, first of all, at-risk groups.  Among them are people having contact with TB sufferers, school students, people living with HIV, labor migrants, chronic patients and former prison inmates,” he added.