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
Screening Newborns for Congenital Hypothyroidism in Georgia In April 2007 the Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Foundation launched a nationwide newborn-screening project to detect congenital hypothyroidism (TSH) in Georgia. The aim of the project is to prevent mental retardation and growth failure caused by … Read More
RVF’s HIV screening programs benefited over 370,000 women and infants and are now being fully sustained by the local Ministries of Health. The program described below continues to be carried out without RVF’s direct involvement. Program Highlights: Goal: To protect … Read More
RVF’s Hepatitis B screening programs benefited over 550,000 women and infants and are now being fully sustained by the local Ministries of Health. The program described below continues to be carried out without RVF’s direct involvement. Goal: to protect newborns … Read More