RVF has been working to improve the health and future of children in Azerbaijan since 2003.
In April 2009, the RVF in partnership with the Azerbaijani Ministry of Health (MOH) to launched a program to prevent the transmission of HIV and hepatitis B from mother to baby. In addition to protecting newborns from these two serious infections, |  | | Maestro and Elena Rostropovich visit a clinic in Baku during the mass vaccination campaign against measles and rubella. |
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the program will produce reliable epidemiologic data on HIV and hepatitis B, which will allow health authorities to make informed policy decisions.
The RVF has also played a key role in assisting the MOH to eliminate measles and prevent congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). The assistance included supporting the routine vaccination of children against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), which is now fully financed by the MOH, a mass immunization campaign against measles and rubella (MR), the modernizing of the vaccine delivery infrastructure, and the creation of a state-of-the-art electronic disease surveillance system. which is being implemented in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. government.
The RVF has also expanded its work to eliminate intestinal parasites in school-aged children, focusing on schools with a high concentration of children from families internally displaced during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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