Malik ADENOV, director of the National Phthisiopulmonology Research Center; Zhanar SAPIYEVA, director of the Almaty Phthisiopulmonology Center; Shakhimurat ISMAILOV, manager of a working group that received a grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Manar SMAGUL, head of the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases Department of the National Center of Public Health; Akan TULEUOV, an epidemiologist from the National Center of Public Health