Rwanda News » Kigali News Rwanda » Kigali » Health: Rwanda’s One Health Gaps: Community Barriers Undermine Outbreak Preparedness
A descriptive qualitative study across six Rwandan districts reveals economic constraints, misinformation, and weak intersectoral collaboration as key barriers to community resilience within the One ...
News Rwanda » Kigali » Health: African Universities Call for Stronger Research Collaboration At Ur-Hosted Arua Meeting
African universities have been urged to strengthen research collaboration, increase domestic funding and expand local innovation to address health challenges and support economic and social ...
News Rwanda » Kigali » Health: Yale leads largest-ever collaboration to educate health workers in Rwanda
Dr. Grace Igiraneza was in her second year of residency at the University of Rwanda when things started to change. Staffing on the wards increased as doctors from Yale and other American medical ...
News Rwanda » Kigali » Health: The Africa Health Agenda International Conference in Kigali precedes the second WHO African Health Forum taking place in Praia Cabo Verde, 26-28 March 2019
AMREF Health Africa and Rwanda Ministry of Health co-hosted the First-Ever Global Conference Focusing on universal health coverage in Africa, and on health for all to the elimination of gender-based ...
News Rwanda » Kigali » Health: Kigali, Rwanda
Rwanda is a country in East Africa with a population of ten million people. It is recovering from one of the worst genocides in the 20th century, when approximately 900,000 people were killed in 1993.
News Rwanda » Kigali » Health: Rwanda’s stunting fight: Experts seek missing ingredients for faster progress
Nutrition experts meeting in Kigali have called for stronger, coordinated interventions to accelerate the reduction of child stunting in Rwanda, where the prevalence remains well above the national ...
News Rwanda » Kigali » Health: Rwanda Advances Cancer Control with Focus on Cervical Cancer and Health Workforce Development
Rwanda has taken important steps to tackle preventable cancers nation-wide, a recent international assessment has found. This includes measures to improve cancer services, develop key governance ...
News Rwanda » Kigali » Health: WHO alleviates public health threats through meaningful partnerships in Rwanda
It has been over two years since the World Health Organization (WHO) sounded the alarm on COVID-19. In March 2020, the virus Rwanda had apprehensively watched from afar had emerged on its doorstep.
News Rwanda » Kigali » Health: Drones, sun — and a strong will — elevate Rwanda’s health care
This is part of our Road Trip 2017 summer series “The Smartest Stuff,” about how innovators are thinking up new ways to make you — and the world around you — smarter. People suffering from tropical ...
News Rwanda » Kigali » Health: Rwanda Feels the Pinch as Donors Slash Health Aid
Rwanda has made major public-health strides since the country's genocide against the Tutsi people ended in June 1994, but declines in foreign aid now threaten that progress. Donors such as the US ...
News Rwanda » Kigali » Health: 10 dental grads give a nation something to smile about
A jubilant crowd celebrated a victory in a soccer stadium in Huye, Rwanda, this past fall. The fanfare wasn’t for a soccer match, but rather for the commencement ceremony at the University of Rwanda — ...