Region: South-Central Asia

Capital: Dhaka

Population: 141.8 million (August 2005 est.)

Surface area: 144,000 square km

Currency: taka

Development Index: 137

Life Expectancy: 64 years

Infant Mortality: 54/1000

% of population below $1 a day: 36 (1994-2004)

Adult Literacy: 41%  (£52% male, 29% female)

60p  provides a small incentive to a patient to finish treatment and prevent drug resistance

£15 provides a year's worth of ncentives for one volunteer DOTS provider (who gets about 30p for every person referred for diagnosis and 60p for every patient completing treatment)

£35 pays for the printing of awareness leaflets

£85 pays for the printing of awareness Posters

£300  provides a TB Drug Reserve for when government supplies are late

£350 pays a years salary of one TB Field Worker

£450 buys a computer for keeping TB records

£600 pays a years salary of a Lab Technician: