Abt Global’s top global health security insights from 2024 as we look ahead to 2025.

What is humanity’s best defense against a pandemic or other major threat? You’d be partially right to think: high-tech equipment in gleaming new health facilities, a computer farm in the cloud to collect and share data, highly qualified clinical staff, vast sums for vaccine research and development, and expansive budgets funding expensive national public health systems.

In Tajikistan, Abt partnered with religious leaders and community networks to deliver health messaging through trusted, locally resonant channels. 

Through the Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby Activity, Khurshed Khojaev promotes community responsibility for maternal and child healthcare and nutrition.

The Abt-led, USAID-funded Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby Activity’s technical assistance helps a Tajikistan lifestyle center improve community health behavior.

The USAID Eliminating TB in Central Asia activity builds local capacity to improve the detection and treatment of drug-resistant TB and reduce TB stigma.