RVF conducted a post-vaccine introduction epidemiological research on pneumococcal disease. The first three years of the study focused on the Russian Federation, Bulgaria and Kazakhstan. Results from this first phase of the study have been published here. The following three … Read More
RVF is working with Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian federal agency responsible for immunization, as well as health officials of the city of St. Petersburg and a team of academic experts to address vaccine hesitancy in the Russian Federation. Vaccine hesitancy commonly … Read More
MOSCOW. To mark the launch of World Immunization Week, Dr. Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian federal agency in charge of immunization, invited Elena Rostropovich, president of the RVF, to co-chair a discussion with leading healthcare providers in Moscow … Read More
ST. PETERSBURG. RVF has completed a pilot program to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in young adults in the city’s vocational schools, colleges, institutes and youth communal organizations and reduce the social stigma associated with these infections within … Read More
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
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 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