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Screening in Georgia
Screening in Georgia
Screening can help prevent mother to child disease transmission
RVF has initiated a program to screen pregnant women for hepatitis B, HIV/AIDS, and newborns 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 annually - is screened for HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis B carriage; all newborns (approximately 48,000) 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 Mission of the Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich Foundation (VRF) is to improve the health care of children in the Russian Federation and other Newly Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union....

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