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Doctors Learn IT Skills to Improve Hospital Efficiency, Protect Jobs

Pediatricians at the newly re-named Shirvan City Children’s Hospital are using computer skills gained at USAID-supported and IREX-implemented Internet Access and Training Program (IATP) centers to improve the efficiency of hospital administration... Read More ...

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Village Fair Provides a Forum for Health Education

More than 250 people turned out for a community health festival in Mahammedi, Absheron District, Azerbaijan on September 26, 2008. Organized by the USAID-funded ACQUIRE Project, in collaboration with local authorities... Read More ...

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Macedonian Producers Embrace Food Safety Standards

In September 2008, USAID’s AgBiz Program organized a three-day workshop on Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points (HACCP) system implementation, verification and maintenance in Macedonia... Read More ...

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Menarchik Reviews USAID Efforts in Crimea

From September 14-16, 2008, USAID Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia Dr. Douglas Menarchik traveled to the cities of Simferopol and Sevastopol to observe USAID programming in Crimea... Read More ...

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Social, Medical Care Helps Ilaha See the Best in Herself

As a result of her family’s inability to afford adequate prenatal care for her mother, Ilaha lost the use of her left eye three months after her birth... Read More ...

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Azerbaijan Strengthens Response to Avian Influenza

On July 1-2, 2008, USAID hosted a National Integrated Desktop Simulation Exercise Seminar for Avian Influenza (AI) to enhance Azerbaijan’s preparedness and capacity to face AI outbreaks in animal and human populations... Read More ...

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Journalists Become Reproductive Health Advocates in Azerbaijan

In May 2008, the USAID-funded ACQUIRE Project, in collaboration with Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Health (MOH), conducted a two-day seminar for journalists on reproductive health... Read More ...

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Sustainable Sex Education Project Targets Orphaned Youth

Irina Mashtal and her colleagues had worked a great deal on reproductive health education for the young people in Kharkiv, Ukraine when they began to recognize that the specific needs of one group of youth remained unmet... Read More ...

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Project Celebrates Primary Health Care Achievements in Armenia’s North

On June 6, 2008, the USAID/Armenia Primary Healthcare Reform Project (PHCR) held a ceremony marking the completion of the project’s activities in the Lori and Shirak regions of northern Armenia... Read More ...

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Diversification Promises Sustainability for Rehab Center

Return to Life, a rehabilitation center in central Ukraine, first received a grant through USAID’s Strengthening Civil Society Organizations project (USAID/UCAN) to make and sell concrete paving blocks to raise additional revenue to fund its activities... Read More ...

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U.S. Supports Food Safety Initiatives in Azerbaijan

Food safety inspections play an important role in protecting public health, particularly in the developing world where outbreaks of food-borne illnesses claim more than two million lives each year... Read More ...

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Ukraine’s Poltava Oblast Invests in Women’s Health

Over the past decade, USAID’s Together for Health (TfH) and Policy Project have been working with Ukraine’s Ministry of Health and other partners to develop and implement supportive policies and systems for improving women’s health in that country... Read More ...

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USAID, Ministry of Health Collaborate to Improve Family Planning

Since 2004, the USAID’s ACQUIRE Reproductive Health and Family Planning Project has worked in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MOH) to increase the availability, quality, use, and sustainability of reproductive health and family planning services in Azerbaijan... Read More ...

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Azerbaijan’s Health Specialists, Officials Embrace Evidence-Based Medicine

“In the second part of the 20th century, medical science began to use clinical trials to define whether or not treatment methods were working... Read More ...

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Community-Based Services Strengthen Azerbaijan's Vulnerable Families

Aygun and Tofig are the parents of two girls, Zarifa and Rugiya, and a son, Mahmud, who has cerebral palsy. Due to his condition, three-year-old Mahmud’s physical and speech development were equivalent to that of a one-year-old... Read More ...

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Visiting Nurses Improve Treatment Compliance, Offer Hope to TB Patients

Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 90’s, Ukraine has experienced a rapidly growing tuberculosis (TB) epidemic, deepening year by year and exacerbated by rising rates of multi-drug resistant strains and HIV co-infection... Read More ...

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NGOs Educate Teens on Family Planning Through Film, Theatre

Teenagers are notoriously tough to please. Reaching out to them with any important information, particularly regarding reproductive health and family planning, can be very challenging... Read More ...

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“Schools of Motherhood” Promote Healthy Pregnancy, Infancy

On April 7 – the Day of Beauty and Motherhood in Armenia – USAID and Project NOVA representatives joined the staff of the Vedi Maternity House to mark the opening of their new School of Motherhood... Read More ...

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Short-Term Deployments To Help Strengthen Third Country Labs

In early March 2008, a Russian assessment team visited Botswana and Tanzania as part of USAID's Strategic Health Partnership Initiative, an expansion of the US-Russian Federation Presidential Bratislava Initiative on HIV/AIDS... Read More ...

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Project Restores Sight for Thousands of Armenians

Lusik Yeritsyan and her family live on the outskirts of Artsvaberd, a small village in Armenia’s Tavush marz. The house has one living room, one bedroom, a kitchen, and a corridor where Lusik’s bed is located... Read More ...

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New Hepatitis B and C Campaign Targets Moldovans

Viral hepatitis is the fifth leading cause of death in Moldova and mortality rates are seven times higher than those in the EU. Yet, only 12 percent of Moldovans understand the modes of transmission for hepatitis B and C... Read More ...

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Moldovan Government Takes Stand Against Domestic Violence

On March 11, 2008, just three days after Moldova celebrated the International Women’s Day holiday with flowers, parties, and festivals, the President signed historic legislation to protect women in Moldova from domestic violence... Read More ...

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SIDS Campaigns Save Lives in Ukraine

Alyona still shivers with fear when she recalls seeing her daughter lying face down, motionless in her bed. “She was an absolutely healthy child, and I left her unattended for just five minutes,”... Read More ...

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Ukrainian Trainers Receive International Recognition

Obstetrician Roman Savka and three other Urainian health care providers—midwife Lubov Polyakova and neonatologists Natalia Podolchak and Dmytro Dobryansky—master trainers for effective evidence-based perinatal technologies... Read More ...

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Early Education Key to Avian Flu Prevention

When it comes to avian influenza, commonly known as “bird flu”, USAID believes that prevention offers the best chance for saving lives. This is especially true when it’s the lives of children that hang in the balance... Read More ...

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NICU Training Helps Ukrainian Doctors Save 17 oz. Infant

At just over a pound, few expected newborn Bohdan to survive. His mother, Alyona arrived at the Zhytomyr Maternity Hospital after her water had broken and gave birth soon after... Read More ...

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Protecting Armenians’ Vision

Although significant reforms in Armenia’s healthcare system have made primary healthcare (PHC) affordable and accessible for the majority of population, the quality of eye care services provided at the PHC level is still relatively poor... Read More ...

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USAID Responds to Donetsk Mine Disaster

USAID Assistant Administrator Doug Menarchik handed over badly-needed equipment to the Donetsk Occupational Disease Hospital on December 1, 2007 to help dozens of miners in the aftermath of Ukraine’s worst-ever mine disaster... Read More ...

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Media, Entertainment Industries Unite for HIV/AIDS Gala

On World AIDS Day 2007, Ukraine’s top celebrities united for two dynamic events, a nationally-broadcasted “StopAIDS” telethon and the SOSstradenie (Compassion) charitable gala-concert at the Ukraina Palace in Kyiv... Read More ...

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Ukraine’s HIV+ Children Find Loving Homes

Nastya, 8, and Lena, 6, have life stories similar to that of many HIV-positive kids. Both girls had been abandoned in maternity hospitals right after birth; both subsequently remained in the hospital for almost a year... Read More ...

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Young Artists Raise Funds for Pediatric HIV Services

Over 500 young and professional artists and talented children donated works for Ukraine’s two-day “Youth Art Against AIDS” exhibition-auction in December 2007... Read More ...

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HIV/AIDS Events Raise Awareness Among Kosovar Youth

World AIDS Day 2007, the international effort to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, was commemorated in Kosovo with a week-long set of activities, culminating in a December 1 concert in Peja/Pec... Read More ...

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Campaign Urges Ukrainian Students to Get HIV Tested

Eight leading Kyiv-based universities, 300 volunteers, and more than 50,000 students took part in the “Test for HIV in Your University” event in honor of World AIDS Day 2007... Read More ...

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USAID Funds Day Care for HIV+ Kids

Liniya Zhyttya (Life Line), the sole HIV service organization in Ukraine’s Gorlovka, Donetsk oblast, works to provide support and services to various groups affected by HIV/AIDS, including mothers with young children... Read More ...

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Stefan Voda Opens Pilot Voluntary HIV, Hepatitis Center

In December 2007, U.S. Ambassador Michael D. Kirby and Minister of Health Ion Ababii jointly inaugurated a new voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) center for HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B and C in Stefan Voda, Moldova... Read More ...

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Turkmenistan Approves National TB Communication Strategy

Turkmenistan’s newly approved communication strategy outlines social mobilization, information, and communication activities to be conducted as part of the National TB Program... Read More ...

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Lithuania Hosts Moldovan Health Ministry Delegates

Under the Moldova Governance Threshold Program, a delegation from the Moldovan Ministry of Health visited Lithuania for a study tour on health care reform in November 2007... Read More ...

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TB Program Expands Coverage in Turkmenistan

USAID’s TB program recently expanded to three new towns and five new districts in Turkmenistan’s Balkan Province, and now providing total coverage for the province through pilots... Read More ...

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USAID Assistance Results in $64 million of Grants to Fight HIV/AIDS in Central Asia

The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) recently announced that it will provide over $64 million over five years to fund HIV/AIDS activities in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan... Read More ...

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World AIDS Day Highlights HIV/AIDS Initiatives in Central Asia

USAID projects conducted a number of events across Central Asia to mark World AIDS Day and increase HIV/AIDS awareness... Read More ...

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Millions of Women, Children Receive Critical Vaccinations

In November 2007, the Ministry of Health of Turkmenistan carried out its first national vaccination campaign to prevent the spread of measles and rubella among women and children... Read More ...

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Village Health Festivals Celebrate and Educate in Azerbaijan

Winter is fast approaching in the mountain village of Melhem, Azerbaijan. Fall rains have turned the unpaved villages to mud... Read More ...

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Community Action Revives Health Care in Armenian Village

Voskepar is a small community of 1,200 inhabitants in Armenia’s Tavush marz region. Local lore says that what Voskepar lacks in size, it more than makes up for with determination... Read More ...

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Learning a More Mother- and Child-Friendly Approach to Birth

Nearly 16,000 pregnant women and their partners have received birth preparedness lessons through USAID-supported pilot projects across the Kazkhstan... Read More ...

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Kyrgyz Family Medicine Celebrates 10th Anniversary

In October 2007, Kyrgyzstan’s medical professionals marked the 10-year anniversary of the nationwide introduction of the family medicine practice. The concept was brought to Kyrgyzstan in 1994 by USAID’s ZdravPlus project... Read More ...

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National TB Program Receives Lab Equipment, Materials

To assist the Turkmenistan Ministry of Health with the implementation of its National Tuberculosis Program, Project HOPE and USAID delivered 10 binocular microscopes, consumables and reagents for tuberculosis detection and treatment control... Read More ...

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Removing the Barriers to Inclusion

Rarely will you find a wheelchair access ramp in Albania. They are not regular features of city sidewalks, not found at the entrances of markets or shops, nor in or outside public buildings... Read More ...

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Planning Healthy Pregnancies for a Healthy Future in Azerbaijan

In September 2007, USAID and the Azerbaijani Ministry of Health took an important step forward in helping to ensure the health and prosperity of all families in Azerbaijan by launching a national media campaign... Read More ...

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Medical Specialists Meet to Improve Health of Infants, Mothers

Kosovo's doctors and nurses gathered in Pristina, Kosovo for two days to review practices and plan future actions to help promote healthier babies and mothers... Read More ...

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Turkmenistan TB Program Takes Important Step Forward

In September 2007, Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Health and Medical Industry approved the Logistic Management Information System manual, a major regulatory document for the drug management system of the country’s TB program... Read More ...

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New Training Center Paves Way for Enhanced TB Control

On September 18, 2007, the Turkmen State Medical Institute’s Department of Tuberculosis opened a new training center in the capital city of Ashgabat with support from USAID and Project HOPE... Read More ...

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Largest U.S. Humanitarian Aid Project in Kyrgyzstan Launches

A handover ceremony of donated medical equipment to four hospitals in Bishkek and the City Ambulance Service was held in August 2007 at Kyrgyzstan’s National Center of Oncology... Read More ...

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Campaigns Increase TB Awareness in Tajikistan

This summer, nearly 14,000 Tajikistanis received information about tuberculosis (TB) from a USAID TB control program implemented by Project HOPE. The innovative project organized six public awareness campaigns... Read More ...

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Russia, U.S. Partner to Open New Tuberculosis Training Center

On August 27, 2007, the Central TB Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and USAID, opened a new demonstration center... Read More ...

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Uzbek Nurses Receive Materials to Improve Tuberculosis (TB) Education

The USAID TB control program, implemented by Project HOPE, together with the Republican Institute of Health distributed 10,000 brochures “Think about TB” in Uzbek and Russian languages among patronage Uzbekistan’s nurses... Read More ...

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Central Asia Strengthens AI Surveillance, Response

At the beginning of August 2007, USAID’s Avian Influenza (AI) preparedness project, implemented by Winrock International, started a series of trainings on Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI) surveillance... Read More ...

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TB Control Program Achieves 90 Percent Coverage in Tajikistan

This summer, the Government of Tajikistan opened the DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short-course) program in new communities, expanding its presence to 51 of 66 rayons (districts) of Tajikistan... Read More ...

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Reducing Drug Demand in Central Asia’s Prisons

More than 50 percent of prisoners in ten correctional institutions in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan have received information and counseling from the USAID-funded Drug Demand Reduction Program (DDRP)... Read More ...

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Summer Leadership Camp Helps At-Risk Women Gain Independence

Sixty young women from across Moldova had the unique opportunity this year to take part in a Summer School for Leadership. Designed to prepare recent graduates for independent living... Read More ...

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Specialists Study Infection Control, Blood Safety on U.S. Study Tour

Ten specialists from health facilities in Southern Kazakhstan Oblast and the Ministry of Health participated in an “Infection Control and Blood Safety” study tour in the U.S. from August 1-21, 2007... Read More ...

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USAID Program Helps Azeri Families Stay Together

In Azerbaijan, the causes of institutionalization are wider and more complex than a family’s financial state. Here, institutionalization nearly always follows a crisis situation which causes parents to realize they are unable to handle their child’s disability... Read More ...

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Workshop to Drive Progress on Azerbaijan’s Health Care Reform

A recently held workshop, Concepts and Possible Directions for Primary Health Care Development in Azerbaijan, must drive progress on heath care reform, according to experts from the World Bank Health Sector Reform Project (HSRP)... Read More ...

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Pilot Community OKs Health Reforms

“We are happy that Sheki, in northwestern Azerbaijan, was selected as a pilot district for health care reform,” said Zarina Javadova, Deputy Chief of the District Executive Committee and Head of the District Coordination Group... Read More ...

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U.S. Officials Visit Orenburg HIV/AIDS Programs

On July 24-26, members of an U.S. Government interagency team visited health facilities and met with local government officials in the city of Orenburg and in Orsk, a smaller city in Orenburg Oblast... Read More ...

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Aid, Communication Key to Avian Influenza Prevention Success

Communication is critical to global avian influenza prevention, according to Dr. Faig Mamedzadeh, Deputy Director for the Republican Anti-Plague Station... Read More ...

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USAID Helps to Design and Implement a TB/HIV Interaction Model

On July 5, the USAID-supported CAPACITY project and the Ministry of Health of Tajikistan presented the first results of pilot implementation of the TB/HIV interaction model in Dushanbe... Read More ...

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USAID and Russian Government to Cooperate in Combating HIV/AIDS

On July 20, USAID and the Government of St. Petersburg signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) to combat HIV/AIDS. USAID and the city of St. Petersburg have had a successful partnership for a number of years... Read More ...

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Conference Highlights Dramatic Maternal and Child Health Gains

In June 2007, the regional administration in Omsk, Russia, in partnership with the USAID’s Maternal and Child Health Initiative (MCHI), held an international conference... Read More ...

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USAID Trains Nurses in Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses

Over the past eight months, USAID’s ZdravPlus and Healthy Family projects trained 237 nurses from all five country’s provinces (welayats) on Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)... Read More ...

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Avian Influenza Information Disseminated to Specialists, Households Alike

Over 600 veterinary inspectors and laboratory directors from each of Kazakhstan’s 14 oblasts have been trained through a USAID-led initiative in avian influenza surveillance, biosecurity, and rapid reporting... Read More ...

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USAID Facilitates Dialogue Among Cental Asia’s Medical Universities

On June 20 representatives from Central Asia’s medical universities gathered for a conference in Dushanbe, Tajikistan supported by the USAID ZdravPlus project. Participants from Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan developed... Read More ...

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Women Teach Neighbors to have Healthy Pregnancies, Safe Deliveries

“Why should I go to gynecologist during pregnancy? I am not the first woman to give birth,” says Najiba, a 23-year-old resident of the village of Bash Zeyzid in Azerbaijan’s Sheki region... Read More ...

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U.S. Supports Turkmenistan’s National Vaccination Campaign

In June 2007, USAID through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provided a $600,000 grant to UNICEF for the support of the Government of Turkmenistan’s national measles and rubella vaccination campaign... Read More ...

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Medical Professionals Trained on Safe Motherhood

Recently, USAID’s ZdravPlus project conducted a seminar on family-centered prenatal care and birth preparation for obstetricians-gynecologists, midwives, and family doctors from the primary health care facilities... Read More ...

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Ambassador Rolls Up His Sleeve to Boost Moldova’s Blood Donations

In celebration of World Blood Donor Day on June 14, US Ambassador Michael D. Kirby, with Moldova’s Minister of Health, Ion Ababii, donated blood to raise awareness of the critical need for unpaid blood donations in Moldova... Read More ...

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Independence Is Goal for Wheelchair Users

When most people first see Biljana Nedic, they might not imagine dancing as one of her favorite pastimes. But that all changes once the music starts and Biljana starts moving her body and twirling her wheelchair to the beat... Read More ...

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Georgia Focuses on Preventing Avian Influenza Outbreak

A year has passed since the first case of avian influenza was reported in Georgia. At that time, the country did not have a national plan of action, or the capacity to properly contain the virus and take prompt action to avert further spread... Read More ...

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Lab Specialists Trained on Hepatits, HIV Quality Assurance

From May 18-21, 20 Turkmen laboratory specialists participated in a four-day “Quality Assurance and Quality Control for Viral Hepatitis and HIV Laboratory Diagnostics” training in Ashgabat... Read More ...

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U.S. Project Saves Lives in Azerbaijan

Every day, the mass media reports on the numbers of people dying or being seriously injured on the road in Azerbaijan. However, many of these deaths could be prevented through timely and professional emergency medical care... Read More ...

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USAID’s MAMA+ Program Preserves Families in Ukraine

Irina, 28, learned that she was HIV-positive last spring, in her fourth month of pregnancy. She received a post-test consultation at a women’s health clinic and was informed of the ramifications of the virus for both herself and her future baby... Read More ...

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Food Program Feeds 20,000 in Uzbekistan

On May 7, 3007 USAID participated in a press conference to mark the delivery of 75 metric tons of fortified dehydrated soup produced by Breedlove International to Uzbekistan... Read More ...

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Azerbaijan Seeks to Improve Emergency Medicine

Through a recent, multi-million dollar grant, USAID will assist the Ministry of Health in Azerbaijan in developing a modern, evidence-based approach to emergency medicine... Read More ...

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Turkmen Health Specialists Learn from U.S. Experience

In May 2007, three key Turkmenistan counterparts of USAID blood safety and HIV/AIDS prevention programs visited the U.S. on a specialized HIV/AIDS study tour, organized by the U.S. Government’s International Visitor Leadership Program... Read More ...

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Healthy Russia Foundation, EuroChem Launch Public Health Program

The USAID-funded Healthy Russia Foundation, in partnership with the Russian firm EuroChem, launched a new public health program “Healthy Family—Healthy Country!” on May 27 during a city health festival in Nevinomyssk... Read More ...

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Perinatal Technologies Enhance Maternal Instinct

Hanna Kulbyaka had made up her mind not to keep her baby even before she had delivered. She was young and single with no one to help her, and thought that she would not be able to properly care for a child... Read More ...

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Partnerships Key to Better Health Care in Azerbaijan

USAID’s Health Partnerships Program convened a Partnership Program Dissemination Conference in Baku at the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Azerbaijan on May 7 to share ideas and successes... Read More ...

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Anti-Trafficking Shelter Quietly Marks 200 Women Served

Since its opening in December 2004, 200 trafficking victims have accessed critical support from the USAID-funded shelter in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The center, supported through USAID’s Combating Trafficking in Persons project... Read More ...

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Modernizing Data Collection to Improve Health Care in Sheki

Dr. Qinyaz Mammadov is the Chief of the Statistical Department at Azerbaijan’s Sheki Central District Hospital, a medical institution that coordinates the work of 66 medical facilities in the surrounding region... Read More ...

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Helping Azerbaijan’s Children to Survive to Age 5

Azerbaijan has the highest infant and under-five mortality rates of any country in the Europe and Eurasia region. Pneumonia, diarrhea and neonatal conditions pose the greatest threat to young children... Read More ...

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USAID Assists Avian Flu Preparedness in Kazakhstan

USAID, with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Winrock International, continues to support the Government of Kazakhstan in pursuing avian influenza preparedness efforts... Read More ...

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Sofia Courts Open First Children’s Interview Room

One of the most difficult issues facing Bulgaria’s judiciary was addressed with the opening of a dedicated space for interviewing child participants in court proceedings on April 20 at the Ministry of the Interior in Sofia... Read More ...

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Central Asia Commemorates the World Tuberculosis Day

In March, USAID and Project HOPE’s tuberculosis (TB) program held a number of events to commemorate the World TB Day in all five Central Asian republics... Read More ...

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Domestic Violence Centers Meet Strong Demand

Police officers reported increased public interest in informational materials on domestic violence at a recent conference in Chelyabinsk, Russia... Read More ...

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Drug Demand Reduction Program Reaches Vulnerable Populations

Drug demand reduction is an important part of USAID’s strategy in Central Asia, a region faced with a sharp increase in injecting drug use that has the potential to spur a raging HIV/AIDS epidemic... Read More ...

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USAID/ExxonMobil Kazakhstan Open Third Birth Preparedness School

On March 2, USAID and ExxonMobil Kazakhstan, Inc. celebrated the official opening of three Birth Preparedness Schools and announced a fourth Global Development Alliance (GDA) project to be carried out... Read More ...

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Campaign Keeps Turkmenistan’s Children Healthy

On February 2, representatives of USAID and the local government presented awards to the winners of a Keeping Children Healthy contest in rural Koney-Urgench District, Dashoguz Province... Read More ...

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Training Helps Curb Animal Disease in Croatia

An outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) could have extreme economic consequences for Croatia’s extensive livestock sector... Read More ...

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Turkmenistan, US to Partner on HIV/AIDS Prevention

On March 8, USAID and the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan signed a Memorandum of Understanding officially launching their cooperation on the prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections... Read More ...

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MAMA+ Brings Children Home

Svitlana’s parents divorced when she was three. Although her mother eventually remarried, Svitlana’s relationship with her stepfather was tense throughout her childhood. After completing the 9th grade, Svitlana left home to begin her own life... Read More ...

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USAID Emergency Medicine Program Receives High Marks

In an effort to shore up its regional social and economic development program, the Government of Azerbaijan is focusing on improving emergency medicine at its hospitals... Read More ...

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Campaign Emphasizes Personal Responsibility for Health

“Our Health is Our Responsibility” is a simple but powerful and important message - and one that recently was chosen as a slogan for Azerbaijan’s national health communication campaign... Read More ...

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Azerbaijan Makes Great Strides in Avian Flu Prevention

“Azerbaijan has made remarkable progress in preventing outbreaks of avian influenza over the past six months,” stated Dr. Victor Gasimov, Ministry of Health Chief of Sanitary and Epidemiological Sector... Read More ...

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Rehab Services Help Disabled Youngsters Achieve Full Potential

Boyukagha Huseynov is an 8-year old child from Shuvelan in urban Azerbaijan with right spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy. For thousands of children like Boyukagha, disabilities interfere with normal daily function... Read More ...

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Local Primary Health Care Practitioners Launch Family Planning Initiative

A family group practice in Chon-Gara Village, Batken Rayon recently launched a community-based family planning counseling and training program to educate villagers about sexually transmitted infections and reproductive health issues... Read More ...

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Drug Prevention Program Rolls Out in Almaty Schools

In January 2007, the Almaty City Council approved a training program on HIV prevention developed by USAID’s CAPACITY project for all general schools in Almaty... Read More ...

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USAID Helps Immunize Youth against Measles, Rubella

More than 620,000 young people in Tashkent were vaccinated against measles and rubella in an immunization campaign running through December 25. The campaign was carried out by the Health Ministry, UNICEF, and USAID... Read More ...

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USAID Training Materials Adopted by Health Partners

An agreement reached at a 2005 meeting of a tuberculosis working group which includes representatives from the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan, Project HOPE, USAID’s ZdravPlus, and the Red Crescent... Read More ...

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Evidence Based Medicine Specialist Union Founded

The Central Asian Public Union of Evidence Based Medicine (EMB) Specialists was created at the Central Asian EBM conference that took place in Bishkek on December 11-12... Read More ...

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Couples Health Program Achieves Sustainability

On December 6, the Healthcare Department of Primorskiy Kray officially launched the Couples’ Campaign. This program, originally implemented by the USAID-funded Healthy Russia Foundation (HRF)... Read More ...

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Turkmenistan Converts to WHO Live Birth Standard

On January 1, all medical institutions in Turkmenistan began using the international live birth definition recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO)... Read More ...

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Joint UNDP-USAID Family Health Project in Belarus Approved

The UNDP/CORE Project Appraisal Committee (PAC) held a formal review of recently submitted projects on November 15 and recommended approval of USAID’s Family Health Project... Read More ...

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Medical Faculty Build HIV Counseling Skills

On November 6-10, USAID grantee Healthy Russia Foundation carried out a three-day “train the trainers” session to disseminate updated information on HIV counseling techniques for teachers and professors at Irkutsk Medical University... Read More ...

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Media Campaigns Compete to Reduce Drug Use

On November 30, an awards ceremony was held for the winners of the “The World without Narcotics” competition conducted under the auspices of the USAID-funded Drug Demand Reduction Program (DDRP) in partnership with Internews Tajikistan... Read More ...

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USAID Project Marks the World AIDS Day in the Region

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USAID’s Reproductive Health Pilots Receive Donation

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Central Asia Experts Discuss Avian Flu Surveillance Guidelines

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In Azerbaijan, Religious Leader Takes on Public Health Role

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USAID Helps to Find Homes for HIV+ Children

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USAID Reunites HIV+ Mother with Child

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USAID Initiative Offers Hope for Victim of Trafficking

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New Techniques Help BiH Farmers Make Milk Healthier, Safer

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Turkmenistan Launches First Rural TB-DOTS Pilot Site

On October 4, 2006, USAID and its partner Project HOPE assisted the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan in opening the country’s first rural pilot for TB-DOTS treatment in the Serdar region... Read More ...

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Global Fund Awards 3 New Grants for Central Asia

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Bulgarian Vets Prepare for Avian Influenza

USAID/Bulgaria completed training for 432 state and private veterinarians in five locations in Bulgaria on the essentials of controlling highly pathogenic Avian Influenza... Read More ...

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CDC Investigates Pediatric HIV Outbreak in Kazakhstan

Earlier this year, at the request of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) participated in an epidemiological investigation of an HIV outbreak among children aged 6-24 months in southern Kazakhstan... Read More ...

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Turkmenistan Launches National STIs/HIV/AIDS Program

A seminar on the diagnostics of sexually transmitted infections (STI), delivered in July by USAID’s CAPACITY and Participant Training projects, represented the first step in the implementation... Read More ...

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After over three years of efforts by USAID and other international donors, the Government of Turkmenistan submitted applications to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria... Read More ...

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ZdravPlus began implementation of the strategy by initiating two Safe Motherhood pilots (one urban and another rural) in the Maternity Ward of the City Medical Center of Dushanbe and Maternity Ward of the Yavan Central District Hospital... Read More ...

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Hepatitis B Vaccination Initiative Adopted by Russian Government

On May 16, 2006, the USAID-supported Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich Foundation (VRF) held a celebration in the Yaroslavl to mark the conclusion of the VRF hepatitis B children’s vaccination initiative... Read More ...

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Government representatives from Central Asia and neighboring countries, as well as experts from development agencies, attended the Regional Conference on Avian Influenza Control and Human Influenza Pandemic Preparedness and Response... Read More ...

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With USAID Support Kazakhstan Adopts Live Birth Definition

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USAID Honors Atlanta, Tbilisi Partners with Outstanding Citizen Citation

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USAID Supports Malaria Prevention in Turkmenistan

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USAID and ExxonMobil Kazakhstan Launch New Global Development Alliance Health Project

USAID and ExxonMobil Kazakhstan, Inc., launched their third joint Global Development Alliance (GDA) health project in the country on March 14, 2006, contributing $40,000 each... Read More ...

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First Regional Center for Reproductive Health Opens in Berane

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USAID Provides Reagents for TB Treatment Program

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Opening of State-of-the-Art Lab Raises Hopes for Improved TB Treatment

On January 25, 2006 Belgorod Oblast’s Central Bacteriological Laboratory celebrated its official opening. Vice Governor of the Belgorod Oblast, Dimitriy Khudaev, USAID/Russia Director, Terry Myers... Read More ...

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Joint USAID/SUAL Program Attracts New Partner

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USAID Brings Uzbekistan’s National Health Care Quality Improvement Strategy Closer to Fruition

To facilitate the development of a national quality improvement strategy, USAID’s Primary Health Care Reform Project (ZdravPlus II) organized a workshop for Uzbek health planners... Read More ...

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Media Executives Commit to AIDS Awareness TV Spots in Russia and Ukraine

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USAID, Russian Orthodox Church to Partner on AIDS Care

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From neighbor to neighbor, over tea and across fences, the women of Siriq village shared the news that young, 19-year-old Pakiza was having trouble breastfeeding her baby... Read More ...

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Displaced Children Receive Immunizations in Yeni Karki

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US Medical Donation Restores Hearing for Hundreds of Balti Veterans

Dr. Gregory James Spirakis, an audiologist from Lakeland, Florida, arrived in Chisinau on October 8, 2005 bearing 215 new hearing aids and supplies valued at $250,000 for Moldova’s World War II veterans... Read More ...

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Natsios Heads to Russia for Avian Flu Talks, USAID Program Review

USAID Administrator Andrew S. Natsios visited Russia October 5-9, 2005 to discuss collaboration in combating Avian Influenza (AI) and to review USAID’s overall program... Read More ...

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Russian and U.S. Leaders Emphasize Cooperation on HIV/AIDS

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Experts Give High Ratings to Russian Maternal and Child Health Program

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On March 30, 2005, senior political and business leaders in Russia, including Deputy Prime Minister Aleksander Zhukov, Health and Social Development Minister Mikhail Zurabov... Read More ...

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Healthy Russia 2020 Launches School-Based HIV/AIDS Program

Last month, USAID’s Healthy Russia Project and Project HOPE completed a series of HIV/AIDS trainings for more than 100 teachers who are using the new curriculum “Useful Inoculation” in their classrooms... Read More ...

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Case Discussion during MDR TB expert consilium Latvia TB Control Efforts Reduce MDR Incidence By 50%

The January 22, 2005 issue of The Lancet, reports success from the USAID-funded collaborative activity of the CDC and the Latvia State Centre of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease... Read More ...

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Substance Use Prevention Campaign Targets Kosovo Teens

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