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
We are deeply saddened by the recent loss of Madame Galina Vishnevskaya (25 October, 1926- 11 December, 2012). In addition to her many accomplishments as a world-famous musician, as co-founder of the RVF Madame Vishnevskaya helped improve the health and … 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
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