... five provinces assigned no clinical diagnosis to >50% of TB-suggestive cases, indicating an urgent need for contin-uing education for diagnosis and recognition of this and other respiratory conditions. ... Review Board of the Ministry of Public Health, Afghanistan, and theInstitutional Review Boards of the Johns Hopkins Bloom-berg School of Public Health and the University of California, San Diego.Two ... disease diagnosis for clinical health workers.keywords Afghanistan, tuberculosis, respiratory symptoms, cough, sputum smear accuracyIntroductionGlobally, respiratory disease accounts for 19% of...