Project Title:“STRENGTHENING HEPATITIS SURVEILLANCE”,Global Disease Detection (GDD) PROJECT COMPONENT (646), CDC, USA; Project Duration: 01.01.2014 – 31.08.2014

Project summary

a)Project Objectives: Strengthening Hepatitis Surveillance through improvement of laboratory diagnostics

b).Project Implementation: In order to calculate proxy rate of Hepatitis B and C in healthy population of Georgia it is proposed to perform confirmatory lab investigation for all positive rapid test results receive from donor blood and 50% of Hepatitis C positive samples will be genotyped.

c).Expected results: Calculation of proxy rate of Hepatitis B and C in adult population of Georgia.