BACKGROUND Evaluating the malaria status of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) member countries relation to goal 6 of 3rd Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which includes have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria. METHODS By 2009, we reviewed the MDGs reports, extracted the data from surveillance system, published, and unpublished data. The main stakeholders...

The North-Western and Central region of Asia stretches from Turkey through Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, to Iran and Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan and Afghanistan. These countries in the main share Turkic, Iranian or Caucasus ethnicity and culture and can be considered as a regional entity for cooperation in control of cancer. The present review of cancer regi...

SETTING After the collapse of the Soviet Union, countries in the region faced a dramatic increase in tuberculosis cases and the emergence of drug resistance. OBJECTIVE To discuss the relevance of the DOTS strategy in settings with a high prevalence of drug resistance. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of one-year treatment outcomes of short-course chemotherapy (SCC) and results of drug suscepti...

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Introduction Despite the significant number of research institutions and rich scientific heritage, published research from Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan) is traditionally underrepresented in international scientific literature. The goal of this paper was to analyze publication patterns in Central Asian countries, and to explore the factors that c...

Today, the region we currently refer to as Central Asia—the geopolitical space comprised of the five post-Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan—is anything but a core in the contemporary network of globalized flows of information, people, goods, ideas, and money.[1] Due to a host of factors, the lands between the Caspian Sea and the Gobi Desert rep...

Thanks to increasing globalization, both West and Islamic ideas are finding new adherents among young people in Central Asia, though an “Asian” identity is not developing, at least not yet. The changes are happening so quickly, it is hard to say whether one set of ideas will prevail or if the result will be a new amalgam. G defined as an increase in the volume and intensity of flows—of goods, f...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union sovereign Islamic states arose in the traditional Islamic regions of the USSR, although Islam was not declared to be an official or state religion in the constitutions of these states, since, as before, religion was separated from the state. These states were: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. With the exception o...

background: evaluating the malaria status of the economic cooperation organization (eco) member countries relation to goal 6 of 3rd millennium development goals (mdgs) which includes have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria. methods: by 2009, we reviewed the mdgs reports, extracted the data from surveillance system, published, and unpublished data. the main stakeholders...

This article is devoted to the questions of history Kazakh film studies development and further prospects in comparison with dynamics world studies. The authors have analyzed typical issues Central Asia region, studied specifics schools five countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan Tajikistan. Conclusions been drawn on this region.
 Overall, evaluation prospects, given c...