June 8, 2018, Tashkent – To expand cooperation between the United States and Uzbekistan and improve the rule of law, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator Javier Piedra and Minister of Justice Ruslan Davletov signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will support Uzbekistan’s judicial reform process. The MOU will allow the United States and Uzbekistan to ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Friday, 8 June, 2018 | Topics:
Press Releases, USAID
A national conference devoted to the use of science and technology in the fight against tuberculosis (TB) kicked off in Tashkent today with specialized seminars for healthcare providers and laboratory specialists. The three-day conference continues in Karshi, Kashkadarya Region with additional seminars and sessions led by prominent TB experts from around the world. This conference ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Tuesday, 22 May, 2018 | Topics:
Press Releases, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
The U.S. Agency for International Development and the World Bank Group, in consultation with the Ministry of Foreign Trade, is conducting a workshop in Tashkent this week on “The Resumption of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Accession Process of Uzbekistan” to help educate government officials and stakeholders about the WTO process and its potential implications ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Monday, 14 May, 2018 | Topics:
Press Releases, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with the Uzbekistan Ministry of Health and the Republican Scientific and Practical Medical Center of Tuberculosis and Pulmonology, officially launched the Center for Innovative Distance Training and Monitoring in Tashkent and its regional satellite office in Bukhara. Established with support from USAID, the Center for ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Thursday, 12 April, 2018 | Topics:
Press Releases, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
To spur trade connectivity between the Central Asian and Baltic markets, the United States Agency for International Development is conducting a horticulture trade mission and study tour to Latvia and Lithuania during the week of April 9-14, 2018. The visit began with an opening ceremony on April 9, in Riga, Latvia. The 50-member delegation of ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Wednesday, 11 April, 2018 | Topics:
Press Releases, USAID
April 10, 2018 United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Pamela L. Spratlen today announced the arrival from the U.S. to Uzbekistan of a humanitarian shipment of the cancer medication Temodar, which is used to treat brain tumors in adults. The medicine, valued at $2.9 million, was donated by Merck Sharp & Dohme, a U.S. pharmaceutical company ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Tuesday, 10 April, 2018 | Topics:
News, Press Releases, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, March 24, 2018 – To call attention to the impact tuberculosis (TB) has on public health in Uzbekistan, representatives from the United States Embassy were at an event today to commemorate World TB Day. Held around the world every year on March 24, the anniversary of Robert Koch’s discovery of the tuberculosis pathogen ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Saturday, 24 March, 2018 | Topics:
Press Releases, USAID
| Tags: World TB Day
The United States announced today that it will be providing the Uzbekistan Ministry of Health with state of the art medical equipment for the rapid diagnosis of Tuberculosis (TB). The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Central Asia Deputy Regional Mission Director Sara Walter and World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in Uzbekistan Dr. Lianne Kuppens ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Tuesday, 30 January, 2018 | Topics:
News, Press Releases, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
| Tags: TB
Recent statements by Uzbek officials have indicated a renewed interest in joining the World Trade Organization (WTO), the intergovernmental body responsible for regulating international trade and ensuring the smooth flow of trade across borders. To increase knowledge and understanding of the WTO accession process and its potential implications for Uzbekistan, the U.S. Agency for International ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Thursday, 25 January, 2018 | Topics:
Press Releases, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
December 19, 2017 – U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Pamela Spratlen, provided opening remarks today at a conference to mark the successful conclusion of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Reintegration for Trafficking Survivors Project, implemented by the non-governmental organization Istiqbolli Avlod. The two-day conference on “Combating Human Trafficking – Best Practices on Reintegration” brings ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Wednesday, 20 December, 2017 | Topics:
Human Rights, News, U.S. & Uzbekistan, U.S. Agencies, USAID
| Tags: human trafficking
On 11-13 December, 2017, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with the Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Uzbekistan and development partners convened a three-day international workshop on “Innovations in Marginal Water Resource for Resilient Agriculture and Food Security.” The main purpose of this workshop was to ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Tuesday, 12 December, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, News, Press Releases, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
On October 13, the Rule of Law Partnership in Uzbekistan presented 15 inter-district civil courts of the Fergana Valley with modern computer equipment that will help connect the courts to the E-SUD national electronic case management system Deputy Chairperson of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Chairperson of the Collegium on civil ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Wednesday, 18 October, 2017 | Topics:
Press Releases, USAID
Kitab District, Kashkadarya Region, Uzbekistan – The United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Pamela L. Spratlen, today toured Kashkadarya Regional Tuberculosis (TB) Hospital in Kitab District, Kashkadarya, Uzbekistan. This is the second time Ambassador Spratlen’s has visited a TB healthcare facility in this region in the last six months. She was last here on March 24 ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Monday, 25 September, 2017 | Topics:
Ambassador, Press Releases, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
| Tags: Tuberculosis
Almaty, Kazakhstan, August 29, 2017 – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID Competitiveness, Trade, and Jobs Activity in Central Asia) will host one of the region’s major international business events, the Seventh Annual Central Asia Trade Forum, Future Growth: Trade, Transport & Horticulture, at the Rixos Almaty Hotel, Kazakhstan, on October 18-19, 2017. Over ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Wednesday, 30 August, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, Press Releases, USAID
| Tags: USAID
During the 2017 cherry season in Uzbekistan, USAID partnered with Uzbek cherry entrepreneurs to open new export markets in Europe and South Asia. This year, 110 metric tons of sweet cherries worth $350,000 were sold to customers in London and Singapore. Uzbekistan now boasts an annual average 100,000 metric ton harvest, ranking fifth in the ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Monday, 7 August, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, Press Releases, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
| Tags: Uzbek Farmers
Tashkent, July 28-29, 2017 – USAID organized a two-day seminar aimed at strengthening partnership with media to combat human trafficking. The USAID Reintegration for Trafficking Survivors Project was led by and international expert and organized by Istiqbolli Avlod. The seminar welcomed media and NGO’s from around the country. The seminar was organized to encourage mass-media ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Tuesday, 1 August, 2017 | Topics:
Human Rights, Press Releases, USAID
| Tags: human trafficking
On June 14, 2017, Dr. Jatinder Cheema, Regional Mission Director, U.S. Agency for International Development/Central Asia and Dr. Mirzanazim Dusmuratov, Chairman of Board of the Uzbek State Joint Stock Pharmaceutical Company, Uzpharmsanoat, participated in a signing ceremony to formalize cooperation between Uzpharmsanoat and USAID on the implementation of the “Promoting the Quality of Medicines” Project in Uzbekistan. ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Friday, 16 June, 2017 | Topics:
Press Releases, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
| Tags: Tuberculosis
On June 8, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) Project, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Uzbekistan, held its annual Cherry Variety Contest at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Tashkent.
USAID Uzbekistan Country Director, John Riordan delivered the opening remarks before an audience ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Friday, 9 June, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, Press Releases, USAID
| Tags: Cherry
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in close cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Uzbekistan, held the finals of the Horticulture Knowledge Bowl at Tashkent State Agrarian University on June 2. For the past year, the Horticulture Knowledge Bowl, which was developed under USAID’s Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) program, has ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Monday, 5 June, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, Press Releases, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
| Tags: Agriculture
In Tashkent this week, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Republic of Uzbekistan Ministry of Health, and the Uzbekistan National Specialized Medical Science Center for Tuberculosis and Pulmonology (Center for Tuberculosis and Pulmonology) held two three-day seminars for laboratory specialists on testing for Tuberculosis (TB) using the GeneXpert system. GeneXpert is a ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Thursday, 25 May, 2017 | Topics:
Press Releases, USAID
| Tags: Tuberculosis
Tashkent, Uzbekistan – On May 18, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) opened a two-day seminar on the engagement of civil society in the tuberculosis (TB) response in accordance with ENGAGE TB, an approach developed and endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO). The seminar was conducted with the participation of leading international ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Monday, 22 May, 2017 | Topics:
Press Releases, USAID
| Tags: Tuberculosis
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Uzbekistan, and the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia combined financial and technical resources to bring 24 representatives from the five Central Asian countries and Afghanistan to Tashkent from May 2 to 4, 2017 for a study tour under the ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Wednesday, 3 May, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, Environment, Press Releases, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
| Tags: water management
Preliminary results of the first day of the business-to-business event indicated that over $35 million in letters of intent to conduct future trade deals had been signed. Samarkand, Uzbekistan, April 27, 2017 – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Government of Uzbekistan, and GIZ held a business forum today in Samarkand, Uzbekistan to ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Friday, 28 April, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, Press Releases, USAID
| Tags: Horticulture
USAID-funded Smart Waters Inauguration Event As Delivered Monday, April 17, 2017 9:15am Windham Hotel, Tashkent Good morning! Ассалом Алейкум! Доброе Утро! Mr. Abdullaev, distinguished guests, I have been told that there is an Uzbek proverb that says “Ер – хазина, сув – гавҳар.” More or less in English, it means something that was said ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Monday, 24 April, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, Ambassador, Speeches, Transcripts, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
| Tags: Smart Waters
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Uzbekistan; and the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia, launched “Smart Waters,” a new five-year water management project on April 17, 2017 in Tashkent. U.S. Ambassador, Pamela Spratlen, provided opening remarks at the event, which brought together over fifty representatives ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Tuesday, 18 April, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, News, Press Releases, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
| Tags: Smart Waters
Karshi, Uzbekistan, March 24, 2017 United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan Pamela L. Spratlen, toured today the Kashkadarya Regional Tuberculosis Dispensary in Karshi. The Ambassador’s visit coincides with World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, which is observed worldwide every year on March 24 to call attention to the impact TB has on public health and to promote TB ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Monday, 27 March, 2017 | Topics:
Ambassador, News, Press Releases, U.S. Agencies, USAID
| Tags: Tuberculosis Dispensary, World TB Day
U.S. Ambassador Spratlen and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia Dan Rosenblum presented counter trafficking manuals, literature, and equipment to the National Human Rights Centre of the Republic of Uzbekistan at a ceremony in Tashkent On February 24, U.S. Ambassador Pamela Spratlen, along with Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia Dan Rosenblum, presented manuals on ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Monday, 27 February, 2017 | Topics:
Ambassador, Events, Human Rights, News, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
| Tags: National Human Rights Centre
USAID Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) Project: Seminar on Cold Storage in Horticulture: Current State and Perspectives February, 16, 2017 09:00 a.m. Ассалом Алейкум! Доброе Утро! Good morning to all of you! It’s my great pleasure and honor to be here to welcome you to the opening of this wonderful event recognizing what’s happening in horticulture ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Wednesday, 22 February, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, Ambassador, Speeches, Transcripts, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
| Tags: Cold Storage in Horticulture
On Thursday, February 16, 2017, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) program, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Uzbekistan, convened a workshop on “Cold Storage in Horticulture: Current State and Perspectives in Uzbekistan.” U.S. Ambassador Pamela Spratlen provided
opening remarks at the event, which brought together ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Thursday, 16 February, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, Events, News, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
| Tags: Cold Storage
Remarks (as delivered) U.S. Ambassador Pamela L. Spratlen USAID Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) Project Inauguration Ceremony September, 15, 2016 10:00 a.m. Mirzaev Horticulture Institute Ассалом aлейкум, доброе утро, and Good morning to everyone! Especially to Dr. Kasimov, I want to thank you for your warm welcome and for everything you have done to bring us ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Monday, 19 September, 2016 | Topics:
Ambassador, Speeches, USAID
| Tags: Agricultural Value Chains
On Thursday, September 15, 2016, United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Pamela Spratlen,
announced the launch of the new U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) five-year, $14 million Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) program. Approximately 50 representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tashkent Agrarian University, Mirzaev Horticulture Institute, farmers, and ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Thursday, 15 September, 2016 | Topics:
Agriculture, Press Releases, USAID
On Wednesday, September 14, 2016, the Ambassador of the United States to Uzbekistan, Pamela L. Spratlen; Deputy Minister of Health, Dr. Laziz Tuichiev; and Chairperson of the Board of the International NGO Charitable Foundation Sog’lom Avlod Uchun, Svetlana Inamova announced the arrival of a new food aid shipment provided by the USAID International Food Relief ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Wednesday, 14 September, 2016 | Topics:
Press Releases, U.S. & Uzbekistan, USAID
| Tags: Sog’lom Avlod Uchun, USAID
In July, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) invited Irina Swift, a technical specialist, with more than 40 years of experience working on customs issues to conduct a week long interactive workshop on risk management and electronic customs declaration filing. The implementation of risk management and e-declaration procedures speeds the customs clearance process ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Friday, 29 July, 2016 | Topics:
U.S. Agencies, USAID
| Tags: Customs, USAID
During the trip, participants learned about contemporary, horticulture curriculum structures and value chain best practices used in the European Union.
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Friday, 27 May, 2016 | Topics:
U.S. Agencies, USAID
| Tags: Horticultural Research, Latvian and Uzbek Exchange, U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID
The shipment of medicines, donated by the pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Merck Sharp & Dohme is worth $2,255,234.66
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Wednesday, 11 May, 2016 | Topics:
Press Releases, U.S. Agencies, USAID
| Tags: humanitarian shipment of medicines, Ministry of Health, pharmaceutical, Project Hope, USAID, Uzbekistan Havo Yo’llari
Over 500 representatives of retail chains, business associations, transport and logistics companies, embassies, farmers, and growers from the European Union, Central Asia and other CIS countries joined together in a February 25-26 Forum, Horticulture Sector of Fergana Valley: Export Perspectives convened by USAID’s Regional Economic Cooperation (REC) Project. Several organizations supported REC to make the ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Wednesday, 9 March, 2016 | Topics:
USAID
From November 16-20, 2015, ten judges from the Supreme Court, Supreme Economic Court, regional and inter-district civil courts visited Estonia to learn from their robust experience in using IT solutions in court administration. The study tour was organized in conjunction with the Estonian E-Governance Academy (eGA) and joint project of the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan, ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Thursday, 7 January, 2016 | Topics:
USAID
Aging adults are more likely to develop an active form of tuberculosis (TB) evolving from a latent form acquired many years ago. Uzbekistan declared 2015 as the Year of Attention and Care for the Senior Generation. Building on 15 years of collaboration with Project HOPE in Uzbekistan, the USAID TB Control Program extended its services ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Monday, 30 November, 2015 | Topics:
USAID
On October 28 and 29, USAID’s Regional Economic Cooperation Project (REC) in partnership with the Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) along with the support of numerous export-promotion agencies from Kazakhstan convened an international event entitled New Realities and Priorities for Trade Development in Central Asia. ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Tuesday, 10 November, 2015 | Topics:
USAID
On Wednesday, October 21, Ambassador Pamela Spratlen and Tashkent Deputy Hokim, Farida Abdurakhimova, inaugurated a USAID funded Training Center for Socially Vulnerable Women. Both speakers wore blue as a symbol of human trafficking and sex slavery awareness. Ambassador Spratlen pointed out that “working together with government and non-government actors, we strive to abolish this injustice ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Wednesday, 28 October, 2015 | Topics:
USAID
USAID’s Regional Economic Cooperation Project (REC) in partnership with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) along with support from the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Uzbekistan and the Council of Farmers of Uzbekistan conducted an international conference “Development of Production and Export of Horticultural Products of Uzbekistan”. On August 24 ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Friday, 28 August, 2015 | Topics:
USAID
A group of Uzbek health professionals returned this week from a 10-day visit – from July 19 to 29 – to Atlanta, Georgia. The tailored study tour focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of childhood TB, a growing public health issue in Uzbekistan. The Uzbek delegation, including representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Tuesday, 11 August, 2015 | Topics:
USAID
On May 27-28, USAID and its program partner, the World Health Organization (WHO), held a workshop for representatives from the Ministries of Health (MOH) and Agriculture (MAWR), along with the newly established United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, to discuss a food safety systems survey in Uzbekistan. Survey results revealed that anti-microbial resistance (AMR) detected ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Wednesday, 10 June, 2015 | Topics:
USAID
On May 20, 2015, a USAID Health Team led by Dr. Alex Golubkov, Senior Tuberculosis (TB) Technical Advisor from USAID Washington’s Bureau for Global Health, met with Dr. Mirzagaleb Tillyashaykhov, Director of the Uzbekistan National TB Program. Dr. Golubkov shared an opportunity to receive a new TB drug, Bedaquiline, for free through a donation program. ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Wednesday, 3 June, 2015 | Topics:
USAID
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) developed a digital tool to address the high demand for horticultural value chain information in Uzbekistan. This tool is an application called Mobile Extension Value Added Application (MEVA – which also means fruit in Uzbek). As of last week, MEVA is now available on Google-play and in ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Tuesday, 21 April, 2015 | Topics:
USAID
On February 27, the USAID Regional Economic Cooperation (REC) project, in collaboration with the CERT International Academy, organized a workshop for nearly 200 participants on the new ISO 9001:2015 guidelines. The ISO international standards certificate helps ensure that products and services are safe, reliable and of good quality and allowing companies access new markets. The ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Tuesday, 3 March, 2015 | Topics:
USAID
On Friday, February 20, 2015, United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan Pamela L. Spratlen and Minister of Health Dr. Anvar Alimov participated in the launch conference of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) new Tuberculosis (TB) Control Program. The launch ceremony was held at Radisson Blu Hotel Tashkent and was attended by officials from the ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Monday, 23 February, 2015 | Topics:
USAID
The Agricultural Linkages Plus (AgLinksPlus) Project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in close cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Uzbekistan (MAWR), held its final close-out event in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on February 19, 2015. The close-out event shared the successful results this project achieved in providing assistance ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Friday, 20 February, 2015 | Topics:
USAID
The USAID AgLinks Plus Project, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Uzbekistan, launched a state-of-the-art tissue culture laboratory to the Mirzaev Horticulture Research Institute on February 13, 2015. Ambassador Spratlen delivered opening remarks and toured the facilities with GOU counterparts. This technology will produce around 5,000 virus free and salt ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Tuesday, 17 February, 2015 | Topics:
USAID
Jonathan Addleton, the new Regional Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development for the Central Asian Republics, will travel to Uzbekistan on January 22-27. During his first official visit to the country, Mr. Addleton will meet with senior officials from the Government of Uzbekistan, as well as with representatives of the private ...
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By U.S. Mission Uzbekistan | Thursday, 23 January, 2014 | Topics:
USAID
