[A social backing program and motivation provision in patients with tuberculosis].

The purpose of the study was to obtain information on tuberculosis patients' needs, perception, and expectations from health care as a whole and social backing in order to improve the implementation of a program for enhancing tuberculosis patients' motivation for recovery and treatment. Anonymous voluntary questioning using the standard questionnaire was carried out among new tuberculosis cases registered to be treated in 4 subjects of the Russian Federation (the Oryol, Vladimir, and Belgorod Regions, and the Republic of Mariy-El). Eighty-seven patients who had stopped being treated before the appointed time and 1302 patients who were receiving chemotherapy at the time of questioning were interviewed using the questionnaire.

[The results of work and experience of the Central Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, in the pilot areas in controlling, detecting, and treating tuberculosis (a cohort analysis)].

In the Russian Federation, the WHO program was launched in 1994 and it covered the whole country by 2005. Detection and therapeutic efficiency are suboptimal. The proportion of pulmonary tuberculosis averages 34.

[Organization of antituberculosis aid to patients with HIV infection in Russia].

According to the data of the WHO European Regional Office, Russia is now among the countries of Europe, in which tuberculosis and HIV infection are a most pressing problem. In this connection, it has been necessary to promptly determine measures to improve the epidemiological situation. For their elaboration within the high-leveled working tuberculosis group, the ad hoc group "Tuberculosis in patients with HIV infection" working jointly with WHO specialists has been set up in Russia.