Kyrgyzstan: Tuberculosis Tests Bishkek’s Approach to Public Health
Copyright show: No A curious debate involving individual rights and the limits of state authority is unfolding in Kyrgyzstan. International donors and local policy makers are wrestling with the idea...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Bathing in the Neighbors’ Drinking Water
Copyright show: No For Nurlan Kenenov’s three-year-old daughter, the symptoms started with yellowing eyes. Then a fever set in. Fortunately, she got well on her own, but now his nephew is in the...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan's Abandoned AIDS Patients
Copyright show: No This summer, Vitaly Korolkov, 38, was homeless, HIV-positive, and a recovering heroin addict. He began methadone treatment the last time he got out of prison, three years ago,...
View ArticleReport: Forced Sterilization Of Women Widespread In Uzbekistan
Copyright show: Hide copyrights A new report on forced sterilization of women in Uzbekistan at government clinics says the practice remains widespread across the country. read more
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Vice Squad Driving Sex Work Underground
Copyright show: No Nights are quiet now on Pravda Street. Only a few older women are to be found in Bishkek’s notorious red-light district. They are the mamochki – elsewhere known as “madams,” female...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Doctors Alarmed as Parents Shun Vaccination
Copyright show: No Aisha, a mother of five, takes her seven-month-old son Ismail with her when she’s out and about in Bishkek. They often travel by crowded minibus.read more
View ArticleKyrgyz Anti-Vaxxers Leave Health In God's Hands
Copyright show: Hide copyrights All but declared dead a few years ago, measles is back in Kyrgyzstan -- and God is largely to blame."We live according to Shari'a law," says Bakhtiar Berdikojoev of...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Bishkek Hopes it Has Passed Peak Measles
Copyright show: No In his office, Ozbek Azhi Chotonov, head of the Bishkek-based Islamic think tank Source of the Truth, plays a news clip about the hospitalization of a young girl in neighboring...
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