Summer 2013
TURKMENISTAN HEALTH INITIATIVE
Dear Friend,

You are receiving this email because you have a connection to Turkmenistan and you understand why it is critical for the Turkmen public to have access to credible public health information in their language. We are writing to you to share a valuable public resource in the Turkmen language which we have developed over the last three years.

  

www.saglyk.info ("saglyk" means health in Turkmen) is the first and only website that helps the Turkmen public to take control of their and their families' health by providing up-to-date credible public health information, responding to their questions, and creating a forum for exchange of ideas and information. Please help us spread the resource by sharing it with your contacts inside and outside of the country.
TURKMENISTAN HEALTH INITIATIVE MATERIALS 
Environmental Health Guide
A Community Guide to Environmental Health
Family Health Guide
Where There is No Doctor
condoms pamphlet
Pamphlet on Condom Use
A Community Guide to Environmental Health contains information, activities, stories, and instructions for simple technologies and practices that help health workers, environmental activists, and community leaders take charge of their environmental health. The guide can be freely downloaded by chapter from the website.  
Where There is No Doctor provides practical, easily understood information on how to diagnose, treat, and prevent common diseases. Special attention is given to nutrition, infectious diseases and disease prevention, and diagnostic techniques as a primary way to prevent and treat health problems. The book can be downloaded freely from the website.  
In 2013, four easily downloadable informational pamphlets with specific messages on condom use and reproductive health, sanitation, tuberculosis (TB), and drug addiction have been made available to the public to learn and share information in their communities.

drug addiction
Pamphlet providing support to parents of drug addicts
The website provides a wealth of information in the Turkmen language for general public including:

 

  • More than 400 articles on critical health and environmental health issues in a user friendly language and format 
  • Opportunity to ask a medical professional a specific health question and get a prompt response
  • Easy-to-understand informational briefs to help public better understand their rights and responsibilities in the health sector in Turkmenistan 
  • Four printable informational pamphlets on reproductive health, tuberculosis, sanitation and drug addiction  
  • Access to Where There is No Doctor and A Community Guide to Environmental Health 
  • Safe public space to share, discuss and question issues relating to public health. 

Our goal is to make high quality materials freely available to the Turkmen public and provide a safe public space to share and discuss health issues.  Your support for this initiative has helped provide a meaningful opportunity for the public to improve the health literacy in Turkmenistan by accessing credible public health information and participating in a constructive dialogue on important societal issues. Many thanks for all the support you have shown over the past years and stay tuned for regular updates from the exciting new initiatives we have for the coming year.

 

Saglykda gorsheli, ("see you in health" in the Turkmen language)

 

 

The Saglyk Program Team

 
Turkmenistan Health Initiative, saglyk@saglyk.info