Rwanda News

On the 23rd of June 2008, Dr Abdoulie Dodou JACK  presented his letters  of credence appointing him as WHO Country Representative in Rwanda, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Mrs Rose Mary MUSEMINALI. The Honourable Minister accepted the letters of credence and welcomed Dr Jack to Rwanda. The WHO Representative told the Minister that  his presence in the country is on behalf of the Director General of WHO and the Regional Director of WHO for Africa.

Introduction of Pneumococcal Vaccine in Rwanda marks the beginning of a new era in vaccine access aimed at curbing childhood deaths

Rwanda Becomes 1st Developing Nation to Introduce Vaccine for World's Leading Infectious Child Killer

The World Health Organization (WHO) organized in Kigali, Rwanda, from the 15th to the 16th of April 2008, a meeting of the WHO Representatives of the Eight Pilot Countries on the United Nations Reform. Those countries are: Albania, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uruguay and Vietnam. The Headquarters delegation was led by Mr. Denis AITKEN, Director-General’s Representative with the participation of the Representative of the Regional Director for Africa. 

Kigali, 10 August 2009 -- Rwanda has hosted from the 10th to the 14th August 2009, a workshop on Laboratory‐Based Assessment and Surveillance of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis organized by the World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. This workshop has been attended by 11 African countries as follows: Chad, Burundi, Liberia, Congo. 

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The WHO Regional Office for Africa, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Rwanda, organizes at Kigali, Rwanda, from 30th May to 3rd June 2011, a training workshop in two sessions, the first one on the programmatic management of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, and the second on Drug Resistance Surveys (DRS) and Drug Resistant Tuberculosis recording and reporting for Program Epidemiologists, statisticians and data managers from selected participating countries.

The Ministry of Health of Rwanda in collaboration with its health sector development partners is conducting the Midterm review (MTR) and Joint assessment of Health Sector Strategic Plan II (JANS of HSSPII).

This activity is led by the Ministry of Health and is financially and technically supported by the IHP+ under the coordination of the WHO, both in preparatory phases, facilitation of the recruitment of the international consultants, and the actual activity of the review.

As part of their continuing efforts aimed at improving the lives of mothers and children in Rwanda, and reducing the relatively high rate of deaths from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, WHO and UNFPA are currently providing both technical and financial support to the Rwanda Ministry of Health to evaluate the impact of the implementation of recommendations made following the conduct of maternal death audits (MDA) in Rwanda.

The World Health Organization, in collaboration with UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF and the Ministry of Health of Rwanda, organizes at Kigali, Rwanda, a three days workshop, from 24th to 26th August 2011, on the strengthening male involvement in the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

The Ministry of Health of Rwanda in collaboration with World Health Organization and other partners organized a national capacity building training on child management in Musanze District, Northern Province, from 19th to 23rd September 2011.

At less than five years to the MDG target, a still high under five mortality prevails and the coverage of key child survival interventions remain low, particularly in the African Region.