A crushing diagnosis provided “an opportunity to change” Posted on March 24, 2023 Maya* vividly remembers the day she received her diagnosis. As a 21-year-old college student in Astana, Kazakhstan, she’d been running persistent fevers and waking up drenched in sweat. Her mother insisted she get checked out. As they Read more…
Social workers connect patients with community organizations providing food, daily essentials, and counselling Posted on June 30, 2022 When a patient delivered her baby in the middle of her tuberculosis (TB) treatment, Gulnara Zhumakairova knew she would need to rally additional resources for the new mother, who was single and Read more…
PIH integrates psychological first aid into pandemic response Posted on Oct 8, 2021 Tuberculosis, one of the world’s most deadly diseases, kills nearly 4,000 people per day and has a daunting list of physical symptoms—coughing, chills, weight loss, night sweats. But lesser known are its effects on mental health. Studies have shown that tuberculosis Read more…
EndTB clinical trial shortens treatment period, helps dozens return to normal life Posted March 24, 2021 While pregnant with her second child, Maral Shorayeva began experiencing symptoms that felt like a cold or flu, but when she went to give birth to her daughter, doctors recognized that something was wrong. Read more…
PIH Kazakhstan Country Director Dr. Yerkebulan Algozhin is among staff who have recovered from COVID-19 this year, and said facing a pandemic while continuing tuberculosis care has brought his team closer together – as they now prepare for a second wave of the novel virus. When Dr. Yerkebulan Algozhin heard the Read more…
Despite Kazakhstan’s nationwide lockdown that began in March to contain COVID-19, Partners In Health clinicians have continued to examine and provide treatment—in person and online—for tuberculosis patients enrolled in a groundbreaking clinical trial. Clinicians have had to communicate regularly with police to cross checkpoints and have used their own vehicles Read more…
A newly published study with several Partners In Health co-authors showed strong results for using new drugs and shorter treatment regimens to fight severe tuberculosis (TB), adding to the case for faster rollout of the drugs and creating data that already has influenced World Health Organization treatment guidelines, a lead PIH researcher Read more…