Progress Reports

2003

• "Legal Support of Disabled Children in Rivne Oblast" project implementation
• FAS trainings in Lutsk (Volyn Oblast)
• FAS trainings in Rivne
• Interregional scientific conference "Actual issues of social and medical rehabilitation of special needs children"
• Visit of Drs. W. Wertelecki and I. Barylyak to Khmelnytsky
• Meeting with Kyiv children's neurologists
• Neural tube defects conference in the frame of the World Bank Small Grant Program project
• FAS trainings in Kherson
• Population Birth Defects Rates in Ukraine - Year 2001 Data
• UABDP distributed fax-machines among the Volyn Oblast delivery facilities
• UABDP distributed fax-machines among the Rivne Oblast delivery facilities
• UABDP site visit report to Rivne Center
• International seminar for Ukrainian health care providers on fetal alcohol syndrome issues
• The non-governmental organization for the parents who have children with neural tube defects has been established

2002

• Visit by the US Ambassador to Ukraine Mr. Carlos Pascual
• Visit by the Prime-Minister of Ukraine Mr. A. Kinakh
• Visit by State Secretary of Health, Mr. Serhiy Shevchuk
• 2-nd Meeting of All-Ukrainian Organization of PKU Children Parents and Its Advocates
• The Orphans Early Stimulation Project has been presented at the round table of the World Bank
• Participation in the 3rd Congress of the Ukrainian Medical Geneticists
• International Seminar "Monitoring, Research and Prevention of Birth Defects"
• Participation in the 29th Annual Meeting of the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Monitoring Systems members
• Kyiv International Women's Club Says "YES" to the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects in Ukraine
• Meeting of Down syndrome children parents
• Scientific Reports
  • Participation at the National Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Inaugural Conference
  • Participation at the 30th Conference of the European Teratology Society
  • Population Birth Defects Rates in Ukraine - Year 2000 Data
  • NTD Rates in Ukraine - Year 2000 and 2001
  • Prevalence of Spina Bifida and Anencephaly in Western Ukraine 2001-2002
  • Prevalence of Down Syndrome in Western Ukraine 2001-2002
• International Meeting "Folic Acid Flour Fortification"
• "Women For Future" Visit Rivne
• Participation in the 3-rd Forum of Rivne oblast women
• Participation in "Woman's Health" Round Table Session
• Dr. O. Trush featured in Atlanta

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