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Hepatitis B

Hepatitis B, a highly infectious disease of the liver, can cause scarring of the liver, liver cancer and death. Although there is no treatment for the disease, the vaccine is highly effective in preventing it. In Georgia the RVF’s strategy to prevent hepatitis B focuses on preventing the perinatal transmission of the virus by identifying pregnant women

Gennady Onishenko, Chief Sanitary Physician of the RF, Maestro Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya at a hepatitis B vaccination site in St. Petersburg

who are carriers and providing preventive therapy to their babies. In Russia the RVF’s vaccination initiative against hepatitis B, a catch-up vaccination strategy targeting adolescents, orphans and at-risk health care workers, reached nearly 2 million individuals during the period from 2000-2006. Now this vaccination initiative against hepatitis B is being financed and managed entirely by the Russian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.

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» Armenia: RVF-Supported Mass Immunization Campaign in Armenia a Success

» Kyrgyzstan: De-worming Campaign Aims to Promote the Health and Intellectual Development of Impoverished Children


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