Azerbaijan gets $9.5m for TB combat project

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved allocation of $9.5 million to Azerbaijan under a project on fighting tuberculosis.

The organization considered 179 projects submitted this year and approved only five of them, including the only one from the European region presented by the Azerbaijan Ministry of Health. The Global Fund did not make any changes or additions to the project and included it into the first category, the Ministry told AssA-Irada.

On account of the grant, new equipment and medicine will be delivered to the country, training sessions and research conducted and activities carried out aimed at prevention of the disease.