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 |  | | 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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