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 |  |  | | Screening can help prevent mother to child disease transmission |
| | RVF is conducting program to screen pregnant women in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia for hepatitis B and HIV/AIDS, as well as newborns in Georgia for hypothyroidism. | | Program Highlights: | | • | The goals are: Protect newborns from acquiring AIDS and Chronic Hepatitis B infection from their mothers through timely, aggressive medical intervention | | • | Prevent permanent mental retardation and growth failure in newborns through early detection of hypothyroidism | | • | The entire cohort of pregnant women – approximately 50,000 women in Georgia 150,000 women in Azerbaijan and 15,000 women in Armenia annually - is screened for Hepatitis B carriage; all newborns in Azerbaijan and Georgia are screened for HIV/AIDS and all newborns in Georgia only are tested for hypothyroidism | | • | HIV-infected women receive appropriate antiretroviral treatment to interrupt transmission to their newborns | | • | Infants born to Hepatitis B carriers receive both HBIG (antiglobulin against Hepatitis B) and the Hepatitis B vaccine within 12 hours of birth; newborns affected by hypothyroidism receive timely treatment financed by the state | | • | RVF has trained health care workers and provides screening kits, definitive testing materials, and HBIG for at-risk infants to health facilities throughout the country |
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The Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Foundation (RVF) is a non-political, non-partisan organization whose mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of children in need through selected, sustainable, and transformational public health programs. ...
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