Acting Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States to Tajikistan Lucy Jilka yesterday (January 31) joined the First Deputy Minister of Health and Social Protection of Population of Tajikistan Saida Umarzoda, national health leadership, physicians, TB doctors, and stakeholders to celebrate the introduction of bedaquiline to Tajikistan. This is the first new drug approved for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) since the 1960s.

DUSHANBE, July 29, 2013, Asia-Plus – The review took place from June 15 to June 24, in response to the request of the Ministry of Health of Tajikistan for an external review of Tajikistan’s National Tuberculosis (TB) Program.