About the Authors

Jamshid Gadoev

gadoevj@who.int

Affiliation World Health Organization country office in Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Damin Asadov

Affiliation State Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Anthony D. Harries

Affiliations International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Nargiza Parpieva

Affiliation Republican Specialized Scientific-Practical Medical Center of Phthisiology and Pulmonology, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Katie Tayler-Smith

Affiliation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Operational Center Brussels, Operational Research Unit, MSF-Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Petros Isaakidis

Affiliation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Operational Center Brussels, Operational Research Unit, MSF-Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Engy Ali

Affiliation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Operational Center Brussels, Operational Research Unit, MSF-Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Sven Gudmund Hinderaker

Affiliation Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Gozalov Ogtay

Affiliation WHO Regional Office for Europe, Joint Tuberculosis, HIV & Hepatitis Programme, Copenhagen, Denmark

Andrew Ramsay

Affiliations UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank and WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), World Health Organization, Head quarter, Geneva, Switzerland, University of St Andrews School of Medicine, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Avazbek Jalolov

Affiliation Ministry of Health of Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Masoud Dara

Affiliation WHO Regional Office for Europe, Joint Tuberculosis, HIV & Hepatitis Programme, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JG AD ADH NP. Data curation: JG KTS. Formal analysis: JG KTS. Investigation: JG AD ADH NP PI EA SGH GO AR AJ MD. Methodology: JG AD ADH NP KTS. Project administration: JG AD. Resources: JG. Software: JG KTS. Validation: JG. Visualization: JG AD. Writing – original draft: JG AD KTS. Writing – review & editing: JG AD NP KTS EA SGH AR.