"Prevention of tuberculosis" and "Immunization of the population of the PMR", two state target programs in the field of healthcare expire on December 31, 2025. The PMR Government developed new draft state programs in order to continue systematic work in this direction. The deputy corps considered the lgeislations on their approval in the first reading at the plenary session.
The profile Committee on Social Policy and Healthcare noted in its report that the state program for the prevention of tuberculosis was first approved in 2015. It has been extended several times since then. The new draft state program is designed for 5 years until 2030. It is planned to allocate 56.7 million rubles for its implementation during this time. Of these, more than 7 million will be financed from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The rest – from the republican budget. However, the final amount of funding from the budget will depend on the economic situation in the republic.
The epidemiological situation with tuberculosis in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is difficult, but there has been a tendency towards a decrease in tuberculosis incidence since 2018. Thus, the incidence rate per 100 thousand people was 86.0 in 2018, and 52.0 in 2024.
Another state program proposed for extension concerns the immunization of the population of the republic. The relevant Committee notes that today immunization is the safest, most cost-effective contribution to healthcare. The new draft state program, designed for 5 years, proposes to continue vaccinating the population of the republic against 11 infections included in the Immunization Calendar of the Population – tuberculosis, viral hepatitis B, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, Haemophilus influenzae infection, pneumococcal infection, measles, rubella and epidemic mumps. The deputies supported the drafts of two state programs in the first reading unanimously at the plenary session. Work on them will continue in the relevant Committee on Social Policy and Healthcare.