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The MMR children’s vaccination program is transitioning to self-sustainability and will be financed 75% by the government of Georgia in 2009 and 100% in 2010. The director of the NCDC, Dr. Paata Imnadze, has congratulated the VRF in successfully changing the negative perception of parents and medical personnel concerning the immunization of children in general and the MMR vaccine in particular. This change in perception has resulted in an unprecedented national coverage rate of 90%. Dr. Imnadze of the NCDCD considers the VRF MMR vaccination project one of the most successful initiatives introduced into the Georgian public health sector in the last decade.

A mass immunization campaign against measles and took place in Georgia in the fall of 2008. Nearly 500,000 children were vaccinated as part of the campaign.

The mass immunization campaign and the routine vaccination program supported by the RVF are part of a national strategy to eliminate measles and rubella from Georgia by the year 2010, which in turn is part of the strategy developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to eliminate these diseases from the entire European region by 2010.