This report summarizes the findings of the 2012 Kyrgyz Republic Demographic and Health Survey (KgDHS) conducted by the National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. Support for the 2012 KgDHS was provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of the MEASURE DHS project. Additional funding and support for the 2012 KgDHS was received from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
On December 12, 2013 the Ministry of Education and Science and USAID’s Reading Together Project will celebrate the 85th birthday of the great writer Chingiz Aitmatov.
A consortium of local firms – competitively selected by REFORMA – advised the ministry on development of this strategy. Led by the Kyrgyz Mining Association, the consortium worked with the Mineral Resources Policy Department of the Ministry of Economy to analyze practices of countries with top-performing mining sectors.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) organized a series of public events throughout the Kyrgyzstan in observance of World AIDS Day. These events were conducted in Bishkek and Osh cities, and in Jalalabad and Chui oblasts. According to the data from Republican AIDS Center in Kyrgyzstan published in November 2013, 5,060 of people living with HIV are registered in the country, but experts estimate that the actual number is even higher.
The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in close cooperation with the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, will hand over agricultural machinery and equipment to 10 competitively selected livestock breeding farms as part of the Economic Development Fund Program.
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