The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

At the meeting of the Ugra Government it as made a decision about creating the Venture capital fund in the region for the development of innovational entrepreneurships infrastructure in research and technical sphere.

Its key goal is to finance small and middle businesses, which implement innovational projects at early stages, via participation in their authorized capitals. The Autonomous Okrig will be a founder of the non-profit organization. The capital contribution for its formation will amount to 150 million rubles. If the region becomes a winner of the contest to be organized by the RF Ministry of Economic Development among constituent entities for granting subsidies for the co-financing of the project, 150 million rubles will be financed from the federal budget as well. It is possible  to attract off-budgetary private investments in the amount of 300 million rubles.

“The venture capital fund is one of the tools to strengthen activity in the sphere of small and middle business. In the future if this mechanism is developing successfully, the Okrugwill  have  600 million rubles to finance venture projects. These are additional opportunities including for the support of the population’s employment”, - emphasized Governor of Ugra Natalia Komarova.

The Board of Guardians will be formed to  control the activities of the Venture capital fund.

July 2, 2010

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

Governor of Ugra Natalia Komarova participated in the meeting of the Headquarters for the prevention of infectious diseases distribution in the Urals Federal District.

In her report the head of the region told about measures, undertaken in the Autonomous Okrug to control tuberculosis and HIV infection. She said that the situation in this sphere “critical” and said that regarding the indicator of  HIV infected people the Okrug is among problem regions of the Russian Federation.

In the Okrug there is a register of HIV infected people, monitoring of dispensary observation coverage, treatment and also early diagnosis of relevant diseases. Safety of donors’ material is provided, there is a complex of events to prevent contamination of children to be born from HIV infected women. There are five projects to be implemented in the frames of the program “Development of the treatment strategy  of the population – vulnerable for HIV-AIDS in the Russian Federation”,  and also the Russian-American educational project “Mother and Child”. Great attention is paid to the work with patients who suffer from drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis.

These and other measures made it possible to increase the people coverage by screening for HIV-infection  and by dispensary observation, to reduce the indicator of perinatal contamination and also sickness rate   and mortality rate from tuberculosis. Altogether the undertaken measures are not enough.

In Governor’s opinion today the Okrug needs in the change of the strategy and tactics of preventive work. “We should be involved in the search for new ways to control HIV-infection and tuberculosis, development of non-standard organizational decisions, taking into account the positive experience of other regions”, - emphasized Natalia Komarova.