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Nursing and Healthcare 2019

Journal of Primary Care and General Practice | Volume 2

Page 28

OF EXCELLENCE

IN INTERNATIONAL

MEETINGS

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March 27-28, 2019 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

NURSING AND HEALTHCARE

Global Conference on

STRENGTHENING OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS MONITORING AND SURVEIL-

LANCE SYSTEM IN GEORGIA

Robizon Tsiklauri, Nino Saganelidze

and

Paata Imnadze

National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health, Georgia

ntil 2015, there was not any effective surveillance system in Georgia, which could provide with reliable data

for developing national strategy of micronutrient deficiency elimination and improving the nutritional sta-

tus of population. With the support of US CDC, in 2015, National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health

of Georgia launched collaborative project - “Strengthening surveillance of micronutrient deficiency in Geor-

gia”. Georgia Nutrition Monitoring and Surveillance System was implemented in 2015. Sentinel surveillance

approach was used by selecting 8 sentinel sites from 4 regions, 2 sites in each region (1 pediatric and another

antenatal clinic). Iron and folate deficiency was studied in pregnant women (1st trimester) and iron deficiency

in children (12-23 months old). Iron deficiency was defined as plasma concentration of ferritin with cut-off

points of <12 μg/l and <15 μg/l for children and pregnant women (venous blood test), respectively. Cut-off

point below 3.0 ng/ml was considered as a folate deficiency for pregnant women. Hemoglobin was tested

using hemoque and multi-analyzer techniques at the sentinel sites.

Robizon Tsiklauri et al., J Prim Care Gen Pract 2019, Volume 2

Robizon Tsiklauri has good experience in nutritiology and clinical epidemiology, has made training programs for doc-

tors, has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals. He is managing of postdoctoral educational program of

qualification at the Tbilisi State Medical University. He used to be a temporary advisor of WHO (Europe regional office

of Europe) in food and nutrition field (2005-2007).

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