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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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 Targeted Outreach Designed to Decrease HIV/AIDS, Drug Use
Over 8,000 commercial sex workers in Tashkent City have received HIV prevention services from the USAID Drug Demand Reduction Project (DDRP) over the past 18 months... 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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 Kyrgyzstan Develops Capacity to Conduct Antibiotic Sensitivity Studies
With USAID support, Kyrgyzstan recently became the first country in Central Asia able to conduct antibiotic sensitivity studies. Such expertise was developed during a USAID-funded study on drug resistance... 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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 USAID Recognizes La Crosse, Milwaukee Health Partnership Volunteers
On July 12, 28 individuals and seven health care organizations in La Crosse, Wisconsin were honored for their volunteer service facilitated through the USAID-supported American International Health Alliance (AIHA)... Read More ...
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 New Budget Foresees More Cares about Children
Vika, a second grade pupil at Secondary School No. 22 in Pavlohrad, Ukraine has been fascinated by the accomplishments of the Olympic champion swimmer Yana Klochkova since she was very small... 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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 Avian Influenza TV Spot Reaches Broad Azerbaijani Audience
One of the key components of USAID’s Primary Health Care Strengthening (PHCS) Project coordinated by International Medical Corps is to prevent avian influenza in Azerbaijan through supporting effective communication... 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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 USAID Efforts Highlighted for International Women’s Day
In honor of International Women’s Day (March 8), USAID reached out to local communities across Central Asia to inform citizens about efforts to improve women and children’s health in the region... Read More ...
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 Evidence-Based Practices Save Mothers Lives
Maria Kovalenko was very concerned about how she would deliver her second baby, after nearly dying five years ago as a result of postpartum bleeding when her first son was born... 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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 “Cinema Against AIDS” Draws Crowds
More than one thousand people attended “Cinema Against AIDS,” hosted by ten United Nations agencies and co-funders of the Joint United Nationas Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) in Moscow... 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
During the month of November, the USAID-funded Central Asian Program for AIDS Control Interventions Targeting Youth (CAPACITY) Project conducted a number of events to mark
World AIDS Day across the region... Read More ...
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 USAID Boosts Emergency Care in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, one of the most oil-rich countries in the world, has recently experienced a lot of positive changes in social sector development. However, in other sectors there is still an urgent need for reform and rehabilitation... Read More ...
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USAID’s Reproductive Health Pilots Receive Donation
Next year, USAID’s reproductive health improvement pilots in Almaty, Astana, Zhezkazgan, and Karaganda will receive over $800,000 worth of oral contraceptives from the biopharmaceutical company Organon... Read More ...
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 Central Asia Experts Discuss Avian Flu Surveillance Guidelines
More than 150 specialists from the Ministries of Health and Agriculture of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan attended the Central Asia Regional Conference on Practical Aspects of Avian Influenza Surveillance... Read More ...
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 Ukrainians Put a Face on HIV
Antonina works as a press-secretary in the Cherkasy regional department of the All-Ukrainian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH), where Oleksandr works as a social worker... Read More ...
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 In Azerbaijan, Religious Leader Takes on Public Health Role
After the tragic death of a close friend’s wife following an abortion three years ago, Elnur Ismaylov, a religious leader in his local mosque, became deeply troubled by the high number of unwanted pregnancies couples terminate as a result of not using contraception... Read More ...
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 Engaging Communities to Fight Stigma, Discrimination
Ukraine is a young country that has inherited many old stereotypes and prejudices after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. One is the stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS... Read More ...
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 USAID Helps to Find Homes for HIV+ Children
Tania, 10, a sensitive and lovely girl with curly hair, dreams of becoming a dancer. Another life-long dream of hers–having a family–was recently realized, thanks to the USAID-funded Families for Children Program... Read More ...
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 USAID Reunites HIV+ Mother with Child
Lena, 31, lived in a small village of Blizhnee near Simferopol with her husband, 12-year-old daughter Katyusha and 10-year-old son Ihor. Life was not easy; her husband was an alcoholic who had turned to injecting drugs as well... Read More ...
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 Increased Elective C-Sections Decreases HIV Transmission in Ukraine
In the postpartum ward of Simferopol Maternity Hospital N. 2, Viktor helps his wife, Natalia, (names changed) to care for their baby boy. Viktor and Natalia, both HIV-positive, were referred to the Simferopol Maternity Hospital... Read More ...
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 USAID Initiative Offers Hope for Victim of Trafficking
Irina, a young woman from a small village in northern Moldova, recently returned home after four years abroad as a victim of human trafficking... Read More ...
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 With Quality Water, Better Health
A glass of water coming from the new water system was a highlight of the November 15 dedication ceremony in Korminjan/Korminjane... Read More ...
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 New Center Promises Expanded HIV/AIDS Services
On November 18, the American International Health Alliance (AIHA) and the St. Petersburg Medical Academy for Post Graduate Studies (MAPS) opened an AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) in St. Petersburg... Read More ...
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 Progress Reported for Kyrgyz National Health Reforms
Directors of health facilities, vice-governors from oblasts, and international donor representatives gathered in September for the second biannual Health Summit to review the progress of Kyrgyz health reforms... Read More ...
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 New Techniques Help BiH Farmers Make Milk Healthier, Safer
That’s a question many people are asking after recent inquiries by the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN) found that lack of proper monitoring results in contamination of some of the country’s foods... Read More ...
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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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 Remote Communities Work Together to Solve Health Problems
Over the past three years, roughly 90,000 people have benefited from community-based health programs implemented by USAID’s Healthy Communities Support Initiative... Read More ...
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 Global Fund Awards 3 New Grants for Central Asia
In late October, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria approved three grant applications from Central Asia... Read More ...
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 Chronic Disease, Injury are Heavy Burdens for E&E Countries
On October 25, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the Commonwealth Foundation co-hosted a seminar on the findings of a newly-released USAID-funded research report... Read More ...
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 Training on Management of Childhood Illnesses Expanded
At the Ministry of Health’s request, in September USAID’s ZdravPlus Project began providing Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) training... Read More ...
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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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 Tajikistan Opens its Second Family Medicine Center
The USAID ZdravPlus Project opened a new Center of Excellence in Family Medicine at Konibodom City Health Center No.1 on September 22... 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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