TB-DOTs in Central Asia

Christ Community Ministries initial, and most successful program, has been the development of a Tuberculosis DOTs treatment program in Central Asia.

In 2003, a couple of doctors from Christ Community Health Services traveled to Central Asia to investigate the health needs of the region with the hope of starting a ministry of healing and engaging an unreached people group with the gospel. The World Health Organization reported that tuberculosis had risen to epidemic proportions in the region.

In 2004, the first TB-DOTs program was established with 40 patients. By the end of 2008, physicians had established twelve centers for treating tuberculosis, treating over 2,500 people. Because a person with pulmonary tuberculosis is highly contagious, someone who is infected typically spreads the disease to 10-15 people a year, meaning that an additional 20,000 people were prevented from developing the disease, significantly impacting the TB epidemic in Central Asia.