The Leprosy and TB Control Program was merged in 1989 and has been supported by the government and international partners until 1990s, when financial assistance declined in the face of political instability. The government asked the German Leprosy Relief Association (GLRA) in 1988 to incorporate TB into its leprosy control programme support, but the reorganizing was also interrupted when the first civil war started in 1989. The TB program was revived in 1994 and had to survive through the years of political instability.