29 March 2013, Dushanbe, Tajikistan – The WHO EURO recommends the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) as a major strategy for child survival, healthy growth and development. The strategy is based on the combined delivery of essential interventions at the community, health facility and health systems levels. IMCI includes elements of prevention as well as curative care and addresses the most common conditions that affect young children.

The United Nations has been monitoring the events unfolding in Khorog since 24 July, when the Government of Tajikistan launched a special operation in Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast. The UN regrets loss of life and expresses its concern about the possible humanitarian impact of the reported operation on the civilian population of Khorog and its surroundings.

Tajikistan, 1 June 2012 – An official opening ceremony of consumer milk processing cooperative “Guncha” established in the frames of UN Women/IOM Regional Migration Programmein Central Asia (CARMP) funded bythe UK Department for International Development (DFID) and CESVI project “Improving the livelihoods of rural communities in Tajikistan through innovative agricultural production, processing and marketing techniques,"supported by the EuropeanCommission took place in Gonchi district of Sughd Oblast.

Situation Overview

A 5.7 Richter scale earthquake occurred on the night of May 13th, 2012 in the Rasht valley, central Tajikistan. The earthquake affected the three districts of Nurabad, Rasht and Tavildara (at least 12 villages), killing 2 and affecting an estimated 2,531 people - residents of the 86 destroyed and 276 damaged residential buildings.

Assessments are still underway (due to the isolated and mountainous area of the disaster) by the district-level Commissions on Emergency Situations and the damage information is still subject to change.

Situation Overview

Heavy rains from 10th to 11th of May 2012 triggered mudflow in number of villages in Balkhobi and Tutu jamoats of Muminabad district. Several houses including cultivated land and household facilities have been severely damaged. The affected residents were relocated to their neighbors’ and relatives’ houses. The road within the jamoat has been damaged and travel capacity is limited.

Situation Overview

A 5.7 Richter scale earthquake occurred on the night of May 13th, 2012 in the Rasht valley, central Tajikistan. The earthquake affected three districts of Nurabad, Rasht and Tavildara (at least 12 villages), killing 2 and affecting 2,531 (est.) people - residents of the 86 destroyed and 276 damaged residential buildings.

Assessment is still in progress by the district-level Commissions on Emergency Situations and the damage information is still subject to change.

After the collapse of Soviet Union Tajikistan has experienced a rapid growth in population and although the total fertility rate has been reduced substantially over the past 25 years from 5.7 births per woman in 1980, to 4.0 in 2000, it remains well above replacement level. Fertility is higher for rural women (4.1) compared to urban women (3.6). Tajikistan’s maternal mortality ratio is among the highest of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. According to official data fifteen per cent of women giving birth in Tajikistan do so without a midwife or skilled birth attendant to assist.

18.10.2011

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PRESS RELEASE

JAPAN ASSISTS HEALTH SECTOR IN NORAK CITY

Dushanbe, TAJIKISTAN

On 18th October 2011, Mr. Hiroyuki IMAHASHI, Ambassador, Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Tajikistan and Mr. Mirali SANGOV, First Deputy Chairperson of Norak city attended a handover ceremony at the central hospital in Norak city.

On August 9, 2011, Oxfam in the Republic of Tajikistan and Khukumat of the Rudaki district will sign the Memorandum of Understanding under the “Tajikistan Water Supply and Sanitation” (TAJWSS) project. The MOU will be signed in Rudaki district and will serve to formalize the granting of financial and technical assistance for the implementation of TajWSS project.