PETERSBURG. As of January 2015, the Russian government has included the life-saving pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) in the routine vaccination schedule for all infants and financed the procurement and availability of PCV throughout the Russian Federation. A pilot PCV vaccination … Read More
In 2009 the Ministry of Labour, Health, and Social Affairs of Georgia and the National Center for Disease Control requested the assistance of the Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Foundation in establishing a hepatitis B catch-up vaccination program for at-risk healthcare workers, medical students, … Read More
With initial funding provided by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Foundation conducted a children’s vaccination initiative against hepatitis B in the Russian Federation from 2000 -2006. At the time the program t was the largest public health … Read More
The Foundation’s routine measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination program is now fully financed by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Health (MOH). Routine vaccination program targeted all children aged 12 months to 6 years – approximately 150,000 children every year. The … Read More
The Foundation’s routine measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination program is now fully financed by the Georgian Ministry of Health (MOH). Routine vaccination program targeted all children aged 12 months to 6 years – approximately 50,000 children every year. The … Read More
The Foundation’s routine measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination program is now fully financed by the Armenian Ministry of Health (MOH). Routine vaccination program targets all children aged 12 months and 6 years – approximately 70,000 children every year. The … Read More
The Russian Ministry of Health has now added the Hib vaccine to the national vaccination schedule for children, thereby assuming financial and managerial responsibility for sustaining the Hib vaccination programs initiated and financed by the Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Foundation from 2007 – … Read More
Since January 2012 all infants in Gaza and the West Bank have been receiving the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). The Palestinian Ministry of Health (MOH) assumed full financial responsibility for sustaining the program in the West Bank and Gaza in … Read More
In 2009 the Minister of Labour, Health, and Social Affairs of Georgia, Alexander Kvitashvili, and the head of the National Center for Disease Control, Dr. Paata Imnadze, requested the assistance of the Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Foundation (RVF) in establishing a hepatitis B … Read More