Publications by authors named "N V Shumskaia"

Until 2021, in the Kyrgyz Republic, tuberculosis (TB) was diagnosed and treated only in the public sector. With funding support of the STOP-TB partnership, the private providers in four regions of the country and Bishkek city were mapped, trained and incentivized to screen for and identify presumptive TB patients and refer them to the public facilities for diagnosis and treatment. In this study, we describe the cascade of care of such patients.

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Background: In Kyrgyzstan and other Eastern European and Central Asian countries, injection drug use and HIV-related intersectional stigma undermines HIV prevention efforts, fueling a rapidly expanding HIV epidemic. The Kyrgyzstan InterSectional Stigma (KISS) Injection Drug Use Cohort is the first study designed to assess the impact of drug use, methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and HIV stigma experiences among people who inject drugs (PWID) on HIV prevention service utilization.

Methods: Adult PWID were recruited from Bishkek city and the surrounding rural Chuy Oblast region in northern Kyrgyzstan via modified time location sampling and snowball sampling.

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Examinations of 202 newborn babies for a representative group of viral infections by detection of viral antigens in cells of urine sediment and in the autopsy materials by indirect immunofluorescence permitted diagnosis of a congenital viral infection in 92% of patients with intrauterine and perinatal pathology; in 72.5% it was a mixed infection. In the patients the virus-virus associations were, as a rule, represented by enteroviruses of Coxsackie group and/or influenza A, B, and C viruses.

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