| List of Health Reform Projects | |||
| Call to Action/PMTCT | USAID | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | 01/01/1999 - 31/12/2002 (48 months) | ||
| Objectives: 1) To increase the coverage of prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission services to 90% of HIV-positive pregnant women delivering (n~700) in St. Petersburg (5.5 million inhabitants). 2) To implement rapid testing and treatment of women presenting in labor with un 3) To implement enhanced monitoring of perinatal HIV transmission indicators, which will include prenatal care, testing, seroprevalence, maternal and infant therapies, infant feeding practices, and abandonment. 4) To provide training of health care professionals, including obstetricians, neonatologists, nurses and laboratory scientists in HIV PMTCT, including opt-out VCT, rapid testing of women presenting in labor with undocumented HIV status, nevirapine treatment, as well as in use of family planning to prevent future unintended pregnancy and HIV transmission. | |||
| Communities are for international development. Reproductive health/Family planning | USAID | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | Center for family planning and reproduction | Kurgan oblast |
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| Objectives: Raising awareness of different social groups of the population, especially youth on the issues of reproductive health and family planning | |||
| Consolidated Partnership between governmental and non-governmental organizations in HIV/AIDS prevention among Commercial Sex Workers in 10 Russian Cities | UNFPA | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) | Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation | Kaliningrad oblast, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod oblast, Saint-Petersburg, Tomsk oblast, Tver oblast, Volgograd oblast, Vologda oblast |
01/01/2003 - 31/12/2004 (24 months) 61 750 USD |
| Objectives: The project aims to involve and cooperate with governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in HIV/AIDS prevention among Commercial Sex Workers. It is planned to research and define social aspects of this phenomenon in Russia, and provide advocacy on HIV/AIDS issues at local and national levels | |||
| Empowering marginalized groups of women to protect their health and family | EU | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| European Union (EU), EU-Russia Cooperation Programme (formerly known as Tacis) | Parents against Drugs in Togliatti |
01/02/2004 - 31/01/2006 (24 months) 200 000 USD |
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| Objectives: (no information received) | |||
| Health and protection for women involved in prostitution in St.Petersburg | TFBS | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| Task Force on Communicable Disease in the Baltic Sea Region (TFBS) | Saint-Petersburg |
15/06/2002 - 31/12/2003 (18.5 months) 65 000 EUR |
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| Objectives: Establishing out reach work and drop-in center for women inwolved in prostitution in St.Petersburg. | |||
| Healthy mother/ healthy child | USAID | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian FederationMinistry of Health of Republic Saha (Yakutia)Department of public health services of the Tyumen oblastDepartment of Health of the Vologda region Regional centre on prevention and combat AIDS and communicable diseasesHealth Department of Irkutsk oblast Министерство здравоохранения и социального развития Республики КомиRegional Center of planning of family and reproductionДепартамент здравоохранения Пермской области | Altay Territory, Irkutsk oblast, Kaluga oblast, Khabarovsk Territory, Komi Republic, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Murmansk oblast, Novgorod oblast, Omsk oblast, Orenburg oblast, Perm oblast, Primorsk Territory, Sakha Republic (Yakutiya), Sakhalin oblast, Tyumen oblast, Vologda oblast |
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| Objectives: 1.Improvement of health of women and children of 1st year of a life. 2.Decrease in parent and infantile death rate at the expense of increase of efficiency of rendering assistance to women and babies, including preventive maintenance of transfer of a HIV-infection from mother to the child. 3.Decrease in repeated abortions and undesirable pregnancy in pilot regions. 4.Introduction of services of the benevolent relation to youth and access increase to the information on reproductive health for men. | |||
| HIV PREVENTION FOR WOMEN IN PROSTITUTION | SIDA | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| Swedish Agency for International Development (SIDA) | Moscow oblast | 01/01/2002 - 31/12/2004 (36 months) | |
| Objectives: : The project intends to select NGOs from six different Russian regions that have demonstrated capacity, skills and engagement to carry out HIV prevention training and outreach activities among women in prostitution. Outreach activities include medical and social health care, safe sex behaviour training and distribution of information packages and condoms. The NGOs are expected to actively seek cooperation with local authorities. Other activities include a study about the various paradoxical legislation regarding prostitution in Russia and advocacy roundtables and seminars with federal, regional and local governments. | |||
| HIV/AIDS prevention among Commercial Sex Workers in St. Petersburg | UNFPA | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) | Commitee of Labor and Social Affairs of Saint PetersburgCommitee of Public Health of Saint PetersburgHumanitarian Action FoundationSt.-Peterburg STI ClinicsHIV/AIDS Center of St.-Petersburg | Saint-Petersburg |
01/01/2002 - 31/12/2004 (36 months) 125 000 EUR |
| Objectives: The project provides for a broader access to information, health and social services, development of the referral system to governmental Health Care services (including voluntary HIV testing, accompanied by pre- and post-test counselling) aimed at decreasing HIV/STI incidences among Commercial Sex-Workers, UNFPA's partners in this Project include St. Petersburg Committee for Labour and Social Protection and NGO "Humanitarian Action". | |||
| Involving of services of public health services in the decision of a problem of violence over gender ground in Russia | EU | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| European Union (EU), EU-Russia Cooperation Programme (formerly known as Tacis) | Foundation for civic initiatives support |
01/01/2002 - 28/05/2003 (17 months) 260 482 EUR |
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| Objectives: Expansion of opportunities of services of public health services, in particular reproductive medicine in granting the information on prevention of violence. | |||
| Municipal system of rehabilitation of women in a crisis situation. | EU | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| European Union (EU), EU-Russia Cooperation Programme (formerly known as Tacis) | The center of the social help to family and children (Kaliningrad) | Kaliningrad oblast |
15/01/2004 - 15/01/2005 (12 months) 200 000 EUR |
| Objectives: (no information received) | |||
| Northern Caucasus Humanitarian Emergency Assistance | WHO | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| World Health Organisation (WHO) | Chechen Republic, Ingushetian Republic, Republic of North Osetia-Alania |
01/01/1999 - 31/12/2005 (84 months) 5 000 000 USD |
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| Objectives: Help develop the capacity of local health services to ensure equitable and quality care, thus reducing preventable morbidity and mortality in ID population most in need.- Coordination and Information Management of humanitarian assistance;- Strengthening communicable disease surveillance and epidemic response;- Tuberculosis Control in the North Caucasus;- HIV/AIDS/STI prevention & control- Prosthetic/orthopedic assistance to war-wounded persons;- Mental health and rehabilitation;- Strengthening Primary Care and Health care management. | |||
| Project "13 plus"- To prevent sexually transmitted infections including HIV\AIDS and unwanted pregnancies among young people in ST.Petersburg, Russia | TFBS | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| Task Force on Communicable Disease in the Baltic Sea Region (TFBS) | Saint-Petersburg |
01/02/2003 - 31/03/2004 (14 months) 6 400 000 SEK |
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| Objectives: A particulary exposed group in Russian society is young people. HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STI) and also abortions are prevalent to a large extent. To reach young people via youth friendly services (youth clinics) and sex education at schools are therfore important. The overall objectives are to prevent sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancies among young people in St Petersburg. Partial objectives are: develop four youth clinics and use the knowledge and experience of the already established youth clinics to supervise staff; create an academic postgraduate course for youth clinic staff, establish a reliable distribution of contraceptives and condoms so young people have access to cheap and safe preservatives, create a basic course for medical and school staff about sexual health, create an academic method course for school staff, participate in an exchange of ideas about safe sex in existing programme at summer camps, influence massmedia about the importance of sexual education, co-operate with NGOs about the importance of sex education for young people. Implemenation of the project: In St Petersburg, Public Health and Education Committee, in Stockholm, Stockholm County Council in close collaboration with Stockholms Aids Preventive Programme (Lafa) and Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU). Contact person in St Petersburg:project co-ordinator Natalia Vorobyeva. E-mail natsan@mail.rcom.ru Project manager in St Petersburg, Anatolij Simachodsky, head of Department of Maternal Health, Public health Committee, St Petersburg | |||
| Protection/assistance to refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons in Russia | UNHCR | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Leningrad oblast, Moscow, Moscow oblast, Saint-Petersburg |
01/06/2004 - 31/12/2005 (19 months) 17 810 257 RUB |
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| Objectives: Provision of basic health services to all refugees and asylum seekers (children, women and men) who are registered by UNHCR BO Moscow and temporarily residing in Moscow City and Moscow region. | |||
| SOCIAL FAMILY PREVENTIVE CENTER | SIDA | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| Swedish Agency for International Development (SIDA) | Arkhangelsk oblast | 01/01/2001 - 31/12/2003 (36 months) | |
| Objectives: The project aims at a transfer of knowledge between Sundsvalls municiaplity and a new family social preventive center in Arkhangelsk. The aim of this center is to support the parents and families in order to prevent further institutionalization of children by providing psychological, educational, legal as well as medical assistance. | |||
| Strengthening integrated Reproductive Health Services in Smolensk Oblast | UNFPA | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) | Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation | Smolensk oblast |
01/01/2000 - 31/12/2004 (60 months) 670 000 EUR |
| Objectives: Значительно улучшить состояние репродуктивного здоровья населения области Повысить интерес и ответственность органов государственной власти в отношении демографического развития и репродуктивного здоровья Укрепить межведомственные взаимодействия в решении проблем репродуктивного здоровья Оказать помощь лечебно-профилактическим учреждениям всех уровней в их усилиях по обеспечению репродуктивных прав населения Сократить разрыв в состоянии репродуктивного здоровья мужчин и женщин, городским и сельским населением области Повысить заинтересованность и вовлечь население, особенно молодежь и мужчин, в сохранение здоровья и формирование потребности в жизнесохранительном поведении | |||
| Support of women and families of those suffering from domestic violence into [Sortavala], RK | EU | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| European Union (EU), EU-Russia Cooperation Programme (formerly known as Tacis) | Advice of women Sortavala "Hope". | Republic of Karelia |
01/01/2003 - 31/12/2004 (24 months) 202 032 EUR |
| Objectives: (no information received) | |||
| The crisis center for women | EU | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| European Union (EU), EU-Russia Cooperation Programme (formerly known as Tacis) | Administration of Murmansk area | Murmansk oblast |
01/01/1998 - 31/12/1998 (12 months) 120 000 EUR |
| Objectives: Creation and development of the crisis center for women in the city of Apatitys. | |||
| Women’s Reproductive Health Operations Research | USAID | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation | Altay Territory, Krasnodar Territory, Moscow oblast, Novgorod oblast, Novosibirsk oblast, Perm oblast, Primorsk Territory, Republic of Udmurtiya, Sverdlovsk oblast, Tver oblast, Ulyanovsk oblast | 01/01/1999 - 31/12/2002 (48 months) |
| Objectives: This activity supports operations research to improve post-abortion family planning counseling. Research results will be used to provide program managers and policy decision-makers with the information needed to improve existing services and plan for the future. | |||
| Women’s Reproductive Health Policy Advocacy | USAID | ||
| Financier | Counterpart | Region | |
| United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | Ivanovsk oblast, Krasnodar Territory, Moscow, Moscow oblast, Novosibirsk oblast, Perm oblast, Primorsk Territory, Republic of Udmurtiya, Saint-Petersburg, Sverdlovsk oblast, Tver oblast, Ulyanovsk oblast | 01/01/1998 - 31/12/2002 (60 months) | |
| Objectives: This activity supports the strengthening of women’s non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to improve their knowledge and advocacy skills in family planning and reproductive health. The creation of a Network of such NGOs responds to the need for an improved policy environment in the area of reproductive health. | |||