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- EIN 52-1752473
- (202) 296-5730
- 1776 K St Nw Ste 800 Washington DC 20006-2333 USA
- www.rostropovich.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: International, International Development
Mission: The rostropovich-vishnevskaya foundation (rvf) promotes the health and wellbeing of children in need through sustainable, transformational public health program around the world. Rvf is a non-political, non-partisan charitable organization.
Programs: Rvf works in partnership with local governments to create sustainable public health programs for children. The largest service accomplishments are programs introducing modern vaccines for children. These programs are implemented entirely by local health care workers, thereby building local capacity and ownership from the beginning, and are fully sustained by the host governments within 3 years of inception. Thanks to rvf-supported vaccination programs over 10 million young children, students and medical workers in such diverse geographic locations as the caucasus, russia, and the west bank and gaza have been vaccinated against killer diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis, measles and hepatitis b. Each of these completed vaccination programs is now being fully sustained with local resources. In 2017, the rvf completed the second year of a major 3-year program to assist the palestinian ministry of health to introduce the rotavirus vaccine for all infants in gaza and the west bank - approximately 130,000 babies annually. Vaccination coverage rates are >97%, and health facilities across the west bank and gaza have seen a significant drop in children presenting with acute watery diarrhea since the introduction of the rotavirus vaccine. In russia, kazakhstan and bulgaria rvf is conducting a ground-breaking study of pneumococcal disease in children