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Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich Fund Gives $3 Million to Inoculate Kids

Source: Itar Wire Service

By: Krupenik, Nikolai

11/18/2001

According to the St. Petersburg Health Committee, more than $3 million has been given by the Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich Charity Fund to inoculate Russian children against hepatitis B over the next three years. The funds will be used to vaccinate 130,000 schoolchildren, orphans, and boarding school staff members in the Novosibirsk region.