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Yerbolat Tursynqozha (23) is a young journalist at a local subsidiary of Kazakhstan’s main television channel in Kyzylorda, the main city in Kazakhstan’s remote southwestern region. In June 2019, he applied to become a certified Kazakh-language trainer in media literacy at the Minber Public Foundation, supported through USAID’s Central Asia Media Program. Implemented by Internews, the program offers intensive training courses to people who wish to become media literacy trainers.
USAID’s Central Asia Media Program enables disability rights activist Zhaslan Suleimenov to raise awareness and to improve accessibility of public spaces in Kazakhstan’s capital.
My name is Lyubov. I live in Almaty, Kazakhstan. I am 35 and HIV positive. I found out about my HIV status in 2004 when I was 19. It sounded like a death sentence, and I could not believe it was happening to me. Back then, I feared I would only live for a few more years and never have children.
Several years ago Bakhytgul (name changed) and her family arrived from Mongolia to northern Kazakhstan. She was participating in the “Oralman” initiative by the Government of Kazakhstan, which encourages ethnic Kazakhs living abroad to return to their historic homeland. Despite receiving assistance from the government, the family struggled to make ends meet. For instance, Bakhytgul and her family could not afford the monthly rental fee to live in the subsidized housing provided through the Oralman program. Bakhytgul started sewing Kazakhstani apparel and household items to make a living, but without her own sewing machine, she was unable to earn enough to support her family.
Today the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in cooperation with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, officially launched three new tuberculosis projects that will provide smart, targeted investments to further reduce the burden of TB on Kazakhstanis. The Vice-Minister of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Lyazat Aktayeva; U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan, William H. Moser; and the WHO Representative in Kazakhstan Oleg Chestnov participated in the ceremony.
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