Project Title:  "Supporting Hospital-based sentinel surveillance activities of Rotavirus in Tbilisi , Georgia”

Donor: WHO

Project implementation dates: March 1, 2018 – December 31, 2018

Project Overview

1. Purpose: To evaluate rotavirus infection burden among diarrheal diseases and baseline prevalence before introducing rotavirus vaccine in order to determine the effect of vaccination among children of age group 0-5.

b) Ways of implementation:

• Selection and training of the staff responsible Children’s infectious disease clinic in Tbilisi which was chosen by expert group;

• Provision of laboratory NCDC Lugar center by equipment and other resources required for the project implementation by European office of WHO;

• Based on the case definition, inclusion of hospitalized children with acute diarrhea under age of 5 into the surveillance system;

• Implementing all the procedures to according WHO protocol;

• Data management and reporting;

• Genotyping of selected samples and external quality control in referral laboratory.

c) Expected results:

• Determining baseline value of rotavirus infection before introduction of rotavirus vaccine among age group of 0-5;

• Determining the most prevalent genotype of rotavirus;

• Determination of vaccination effect.