Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Post-Soviet Georgia

Note on Transliteration

xiv Free MarkeT Tuberculosis WHO World Health Organization XDR-TB Extensively drug-resistant Tuberculosis S Streptomycin H Isoniazid R Rifampicin Z Pyrazinamide E Ethambutol note on Transliteration In this book I have adopted the Apridonidze-Chkhaidze transliteration system (Institute of Linguistics, Georgian Academy of Sciences). This system can be beneficial for English-speaking readers because diacritics are reserved for distinguishing hard from soft letters in the alphabet. The Georgian language does not use capital letters. I follow this rule here, with the exception of names of people and places, or when I begin a sentence with a Georgian word. Free Market Tuberculosis ...