Progress Reports

2001

• President Kuchma endorses the Birth Defects Program and Neural Tube Defects Prevention 
• President Kuchma supports the creation of a Perinatal Center in Lutsk
• Folic Acid distributed to brides - November
• NTD Rates in Ukraine - Year 2000 Data
• Ukrainian-American Birth Defects Program is officially accepted as a member of the International Clearinghouse
  • Participation in the 28th Annual Meeting of the International Clearinghouse
• Ukrainian organization of parents of PKU-affected children goes ahead
• Phenylketonuria workshop
• Overview of materials presented at the section "Bioethical Issues in Medical Genetics and Human Reproduction" during the First National Bioethics Congress
• Events during the 10th International Congress of Human Genetics
  • President of Ukrainian Alliance for the Prevention of Birth Defects, Dr. I. Barylyak inducted into the board of directors of the World Alliance for the Prevention of Birth Defects
  • Presentations during the 10th International Congress of Human Genetics
• Joint recommendations with UNICEF, CDC, Rollins School of Public Health and University of South Alabama
• International Conference "Folic Acid Impact: From Scientific Research to Health Care Practice"
• Training of Khmelnytsky and Kherson specialists
• Crimea joins the Network
• Kherson joins the Network
• Khmelnytsky joins the Network

2000

• Conference for Medical Care Professionals of Kherson Oblast
• Conference for Medical Care Professionals of Khmelnytsky Oblast
• The “Day of Not-For-Profit Organizations” Meets Friends
• Young Prizewinners of the International Horowitz Piano Competition Promote the Ukrainian Initiative for Birth Defects Prevention
  Hear the Prodigies play to promote Birth Defects Prevention
• Ukrainian Alliance Votes for Raising of Internet Users Number Among Its Members
• International Meeting-Training of Non-for-profit Organizations Volunteers
• Spring 2000 - Comprehensive Illustrated Report
• Ukraine joins the World Alliance of Organizations for the Prevention of Birth Defects
• First Ukrainian International Report concerning Birth Defects 
• Reports to the World Alliance of Organizations for the Prevention of Birth Defects
  • Core Notions for the Prevention of Birth Defects
  • World Wide Web and Birth Defects Prevention

1999

• Initial Steps and Staging in Ukraine
  • Volyn Conference of Neonatologists and Pediatricians 
  • Meeting of the Ukrainian - American Birth Defects Program Team
  • Meeting of Parents of Children with PKU
  • Rivne Conference of Neonatologists and Pediatricians
  • Rivne Birth Defects Center Opening Ceremony
  • National Meeting of Ukrainian Medical Geneticists

1991 - 1998

• Initial Steps and Staging in USA
• International Experts Visit Ukraine

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