DUSHANBE. As part of its ongoing deworming initiative in Central Asia, the Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Foundation (RVF) facilitated in July 2014 a cross-border training course for Tajik laboratory specialists, which was conducted by Kyrgyz experts who had been trained by the RVF. … Read More
RVF has been working in cooperation with the Tajik Ministry of Health (MOH) and Tropical Disease Center to combat high rates of helminth, or intestinal parasite infestation rates in Tajikistan. RVF supported a national deworming campaign in 2012-2013 which provided … Read More
RVF helped ensure that 4.5 million individuals received deworming treatment and hygiene education between 2008-2012. During 2013-2014, while the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic stepped up to continue deworming treatment of its population, RVF was actively involved in … Read More
The deworming program in Azerbaijan concluded in 2013, having successfully dewormed nearly 800,000 school children throughout the country and provided hygiene education to prevent reinfection. Additionally, RVF carried out capacity building by training to lab technician and parasitologists in modern, … Read More
DUSHANBE. The Ministry of Health of Tajikistan, in partnership with the RVF and the U.S. Department of Defense, has just completed a nationwide deworming campaign. Epidemiologic surveys indicated that over half of the general population of Tajikistan was infected with … Read More