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Anwar Hussain Aryan is on a mission. Once he completes his master’s degree, he wants to return home to Afghanistan and work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He wants to help resolve disputes over water. “My thesis is on conflict and cooperation,” he says. A student of Integrated Water Resources Management, Aryan knew he was on the right path, but a recent two-week summer school program funded by USAID, has equipped him with the skills to help establish cooperation across borders in a region marked by conflict over shared water resources.
Turatbek Uulu and Qurbonov are getting master’s degrees in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and are roommates at Kazakh German University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Both men are part of a bold scholarship program, funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID),that is bringing together students from across Central Asia to learn together and develop friendships and professional collaborations that will ultimately help their countries solve often contentious cross border water resource issues.
Like many people in Uzbekistan, and around the world, Shavkat Tursunbayev has battled Tuberculosis (TB), a highly infectious but curable disease. After an initial infection ten years ago, he was re-infected while serving a prison sentence. Overcrowding and a lack of awareness of how TB infection is transmitted make inmates particularly vulnerable to TB. And compounding the problem, distrust of doctors and officials make former inmates particularly fearful of getting tested and seeking treatment.
Midwife Zebo Rusieva works in a maternity ward in Tajikistan—a country with an estimated 32 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births. Midwives can play a significant role in the reduction of maternal and newborn mortality. However, in Tajikistan, the lack of adequate training has kept midwives from serving as members of facility health care teams. The Feed the Future Tajikistan Health and Nutrition Activity works to address this and other challenges in Tajikistan’s maternal, newborn and child health care system by providing training for midwives like Rusieva.
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