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WHO/David Kharatishvili
From right to left: Nino Berdzuli, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, David Sergeenko, Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, and Marijan Ivanusa, Head of WHO Country Office, Georgia.
At the opening of an intercountry meeting on antenatal care, the Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, David Sergeenko, underscored the importance of providing pregnant women with adequate information, stating, “Child development begins before a child is born, therefore the right information and guidance is very important”. The meeting, which took place in Tbilisi, Georgia on 27–28 April, convened representatives from 12 eastern European and central Asian countries with international experts and development partners working in the area of maternal and perinatal health. Over the course of the two days, participants discussed implementation of the renewed WHO recommendations on antenatal care.
All countries should seek to achieve universal childhood vaccination against hepatitis B.
The introduction of the hepatitis B vaccine in 1982 led to a dramatic fall in the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections globally. Today, 4.5 million infections are prevented each year in children, as the first WHO “Global hepatitis report 2017” revealed last week.
The WHO European Region has contributed to the worldwide decline in HBV infections by reaching a prevalence of 0.4% in children under 5, thus achieving one of the targets of the first Action plan for the health sector response to viral hepatitis in the WHO European Region. Most of the 15 million people in the Region living with the disease are adults born before the hepatitis B vaccine became widely available in the 1990s.
