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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: | | Goal 1: | Protect newborns from acquiring AIDS and Chronic Hepatitis B infection from their mothers through timely, aggressive medical intervention | | Goal 2: | 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 19,000 women in the city of Yerevan in Armenia annually - is screened for hepatitis B carriage; | | • | Additionally, pregnant women in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia are screened for HIV/AIDS and all newborns in Georgia 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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