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 | .gif) | 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 Azerbaijan and Armenia the RVF’s strategy to prevent hepatitis B focuses on preventing the perinatal transmission of the virus by identifying |  | | Gennady Onishenko, Chief Sanitary Physician of the RF, Maestro Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya at a hepatitis B vaccination site in St. Petersburg |
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| pregnant women who are carriers and providing preventive therapy to their babies. In Georgia, RVF’s strategy includes screening as in neighboring Armenia and Azerbaijan but also includes the vaccination of health care workers and medical students. 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. | | | | » Georgia | | » Russia |
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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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