tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13653633331840485492024-03-12T18:43:17.380-07:00Agnes BinagwahoMy dream at the end of every day is to close my eyes, knowing that the access to prevention, care and treatment has improved for Rwandan children and people of the world.Prof. Agnes Binagwahohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134443635619975945noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365363333184048549.post-14022164695762556632018-09-04T06:28:00.000-07:002018-09-04T06:28:15.598-07:00
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">The Road Ahead for US
Foreign Aid to Africa</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Published by the Aspen Ideas Festival Blog on June 18th, 2018 </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Agnes Binagwaho</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><i>In this blog post, I offer my recommendations for the US
entities who provide aid to sub-Saharan Africa, as part of my speaking
engagement in the </i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://www.aspenideas.org/content/our-planet-our-health"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #003399;">Our
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Africa, in particular, was condemned to an endless cycle of poverty,
starvation, and tragedies. Yet in the past 10 years, the region has undergone
major transformations thanks to home-grown solutions and outside support.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s rise is due to interconnected factors including growing
economies, efficient governments, and focused foreign development support,
through both governmental and non-profit investment.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“One Health, One Planet. Environment and Health in the Human Security Agenda.” </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Center for Security Policy on May 31st, 2018</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Security Policy (GCSP), in partnership with the University of Global Health
Equity (Rwanda), organized an event under the title: ‘One Health, One Planet.
Environment and Health in the Human Security Agenda’.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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former director of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) and an Executive-in-Residence
within the GCSP. The panelists included <b>Dr Stephane de la Rocque</b>, Head
of the One Health Team in the Health Emergency program of WHO, <b>Dr Desiree
Montecillo-Narvaez</b>, Programme Officer in UN Environment Programme (UNEP) as
well as <b>Dr Agnes Binagwaho</b>, Vice Chancellor of the University of
Global Health Equity, former Minister of Health of Rwanda.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Deaths of children under 5 have dropped by nearly 20 percent in just two years
in a poor, rural district in Madagascar—despite the island nation’s lowest
health spending in the world. This transformation echoes the strength of
results charted across the last decade in rural Rwanda, where under 5 mortality
dropped 60 percent between 2005 and 2010 in Southern Kayonza and Kirehe
districts. Both sets of results were products of a grassroots health system
movement founded on principles of public partnership, data science, and
universal access to care for all. … Professor Agnes Binagwaho is senior
author on the Rwanda study, having served as the Rwanda Minister of Health from
2011 through 2016. “Through Rwanda's commitment to a universal right to health,
we have continued to witness transformation that has rendered our country's
health system an example for not only Africa, but for the world,” she said. “We
embrace the shared vision and work of our partners in Madagascar. Together, we
can pave the way to inclusive health systems that advance equity and health for
all people.” Prof. Binagwaho is currently on the faculties of both Harvard and
Dartmouth Medical Schools, and is the Vice Chancellor of the University of
Global Health Equity, a new Rwanda-based university that trains global health
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unprecedented opportunity,” said Erika Linnander, director of the Yale Global
Health Initiative (GHLI), during her opening remarks at the recent launch in
Kigali, Rwanda of a new immunization program. “I see such an exceptionally
diverse group here today to help support this program — nurses, managers,
policymakers, government officials, development partners, physicians, and
educators. This coming together in support of improved management and
leadership is fundamental to the achievement of global health targets.” …</span></div>
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and effective management practices are necessary to strategically and equitably
improve health systems, including making sure vaccines reach children in every
corner of the world,” said UGHE Vice Chancellor Dr. Agnes Binagwaho. “By
hosting this forum in Rwanda, participants will train in an environment that
prepares them to both address delivery challenges, as well as inspire them to
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African women come together to discuss transformative leadership, one can’t
help but feel amazed, inspired and energized. The</span><span style="background: white; color: #5b6770; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://www.wellesley.edu/awlc"><span style="background: white; color: #22ab6b; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">African
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seasoned African women leaders with an opportunity to share their leadership
journeys with the continent’s emerging young women leaders….</span></div>
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a light on gender inequity at all levels of global health</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #5b6770; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She also shared her newest
project — the University of Global Health Equity, in Rwanda — a revolutionary
model of health care provision that puts equity at the center. She told us:
‘find your passion. Fight for it. Be ready to die for it. It gives you life.’”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“TORONTO – Africa has a
long history of female leadership. Yet leadership can be a challenging
aspiration for the continent’s young women, owing to enduring barriers to
success. If African countries – and Africa’s women – are to meet their
potential, this must change… </span><span style="background: #FCFCFC; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Former Rwandan Minister of Health </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/agnes-binagwaho"><span style="background: #FCFCFC; color: #2499e0; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Agnes
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gives relief to people knowing that if you get sick, you don’t need to have a
lot of money,’ said Dr. Agnes Binagwaho,</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the former Minister of Health
who turned health in Rwanda around with her belief that health care is a human
right for all. ‘It gives you psychological stability so you can concentrate on
something else. The money can be used for other things – this is very important
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sentence—that’s what we were looking for as we sifted through our stories about
Partners In Health in 2017. Like any round-up, this collection of quotes falls
short of conveying the breadth and depth of all that was accomplished this
year. PIH staff saw 1.5 million patients in clinics and hospitals, never mind
the hundreds of thousands consulted in their homes. But hopefully these few
quotes, chosen for their pithiness, hint at one important aspect of the work:
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to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), an esteemed society of over two
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Jim Kim Yong which talks about the work of Partners in Health, using Rwanda as
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Sundance Film Festival, Miami International Film Festival and San Francisco
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conversations on Twitter have advanced the debate about global health, the use
of Twitter and Facebook to register the satisfaction of medical patients, and
many others, should change our preconceptions. More and more, these digital
platforms are showing their value as vital agents in communication, saving
lives, and serving as vehicles for advocacy and campaigning. It is leading to
more efficacy and efficiency in human development and in global health. Such
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Health Equity’s Contribution to the Reduction of Education and Health Services
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Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) in which I explain what the
University of Global Health Equity brings to health education and how we aim to
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Hospital with representatives of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and
Inshuti Mu Buzima. Photo by Zacharias Abubeker for UGHE</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rwanda has seen significant advances in economic growth and population health.
Developments in mobile health technology, household-administered rapid
diagnostic tests, and support systems that integrate information and
communications technology (ICT) are transforming not just how care is delivered
– but where. By delivering high-quality health care and social services in some
of the country’s poorest communities, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/business/economy/senate-obamacare-rwanda.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rwanda has
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students around the world are putting on their caps and gowns for graduation
ceremonies. Among them are 23 students from Rwanda and one from the U.S. who graduated
as the first class of the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="http://ughe.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">University of Global Health Equity</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> in Kigali, Rwanda, on Saturday.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Kigali, Rwanda (March
31, 2017)<b> </b>—The University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) announces the
appointment of Professor Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PhD, former Rwandan
Minister of Health and a champion for health equity, as its new Vice
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has achieved some of the most dramatic gains in health and poverty-reduction in
the world. This small, landlocked African country (the size of Massachusetts,
but with twice the population) has developed a primary health-care system with
near-universal access to clinical care and insurance. Rwanda has reduced both
economic and health-care inequality, and demonstrates how ‘health equity’ helps
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 2015, the government
of Rwanda and the Boston-based Partners In Health (PIH), with the help of the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Cummings Foundation, established
the private, not-for-profit University of Global Health Equity (UGHE). The
university is founded on the principle that every member of a community
deserves the same care and opportunity, and focuses on the delivery of quality
health care to those who need it most. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/agnes-binagwaho"><span style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Agnes Binagwaho</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, a co-founder of UGHE who is a former minister
of health and an adjunct professor at Harvard Medical School, once said to me,
‘Why would I want to raise my children in a nation where all children don’t get
the same medical care as they do?’”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Social Work, School of Medicine, and the College of Architecture and Planning </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">at
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Deputy Executive Director of IMB, Dr. Paul Farmer, PIH Co-Founder and Chief
Strategist, Dr. Musafiri Papias Marimba, Minister of Education, and Dr. Peter
Drobac, Executive Director of UGHE, plant the Visionary Tree to symbolize the
beginning of construction of the university. Photo by Aaron Levenson for UGHE</span></i></div>
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Equity (UGHE) will break ground on its Butaro campus, initiating the first
phase of construction on a facility that will support over 1,000 students and
faculty and convene the world’s leading minds in health care delivery.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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higher education, UGHE represents a shift in opportunity,’ says Dr. Agnes
Binagwaho, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Delivery at UGHE. ‘The
university will serve as an intellectual hub for the world’s best and
brightest; many of whom will come from Rwanda and, as graduates, drive the
success of our health system.’”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the physician role published in the International Journal of Health Policy
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Evolution of the Physician Role in the Setting of Increased Non-physician
Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa<b>: </b>An Insistence on Timing and
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<!--EndFragment--><br />Prof. Agnes Binagwahohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134443635619975945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365363333184048549.post-37665352318526489372016-12-17T03:23:00.001-08:002016-12-17T03:23:34.067-08:00Participation in the Salzburg Global Seminar<h5 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 1.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This post was published</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the 15 December 2016 a</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">t the </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SalzburgGlobal/">Salzburg
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In Rwanda, we
were able to establish an equitable health sector by sharing the social capital
equally. More than 90% of Rwandans have health insurance, and more than 93% of
children are vaccinated against 11 antigens. We have universal access to HIV
treatment, and the result of our TB treatment is among the best on earth."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">"This was
only possible because we have built our health sector where health is not the
only silo. We have taken other social determinants into account and built a health
sector with the sector in charge of gender, local governance, and education. We
have created a system of multi-stakeholders’ intervention in synergy and
harmony, inside of a multi-sectoral approach.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Binagwaho" target="_blank">Agnes Binagwaho</a>,</span> Professor University of Global Health Equity, explains
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Prof. Agnes Binagwahohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134443635619975945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365363333184048549.post-52907981246851753192016-08-27T14:59:00.000-07:002016-08-27T15:59:48.844-07:00Deutsche Welle Interview on Non-Communicable Diseases<br />
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Here, I am interviewed by Deutsche Welle, the German Broadcast Service for foreign countries, during the 2016 World Economic Forum, which was held in Kigali. This discussion was around the impact of non-communicable disease on development and the need to create health systems and sustainable partnerships to support the delivery of quality care. I share my perspective on how a multi-sectorial approach and teamwork is essential to reach each patient at the right time. </div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://m.dw.com/en/rwandas-health-system/av-19322050&source=gmail&ust=1472419042000000&usg=AFQjCNFZofx-r5k0Y3AGWBQe7Qz9FPtSlA" href="http://m.dw.com/en/rwandas-health-system/av-19322050" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">http://m.dw.com/en/rwandas-<wbr></wbr>health-system/av-19322050</a>Prof. Agnes Binagwahohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134443635619975945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365363333184048549.post-26315671736779007962016-07-05T12:06:00.000-07:002016-08-29T03:15:16.064-07:00Taking Stock on Malaria in Rwanda<div class="article-byline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Published on June 15, 2016 in <b>The New Times </b>by Dean Karemera</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The government can provide bed nets, train community health workers, offer medical insurance but if we ignore the simple things such as cleanliness in our homes and environment, we won’t succeed in the fight against malaria,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“Most people who die from malaria are those without medical insurance because they fear seeking medical care without it. I urge them to get medical insurance because it’s likely that malaria is going to increase. We have trained community health workers to handle cases and they are fully equipped,” she added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The number of houses sprayed stands at 453,320 representing 99 per cent in five out of eight highly affected districts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">On the issue of bed nets that were once procured and later found not to be effective, the minister said they now conduct their own testing of bed nets even after the World Health Organisation has done its own testing.</span></div>
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Prof. Agnes Binagwahohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134443635619975945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365363333184048549.post-53388667858190408102016-07-05T11:48:00.001-07:002016-07-05T12:10:28.652-07:00American Medical Association Journal of Ethics feature on Rwanda's Health Sector<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">In July of 2016 the <i>AMA Journal of Ethics </i>featured
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Prof. Agnes Binagwahohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134443635619975945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365363333184048549.post-50585538879669200182016-05-17T11:50:00.001-07:002016-07-05T12:26:08.857-07:00Rwanda: Using Innovation through Drones to Save Lives<h1 class="headline" style="text-align: justify;">
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Video produced by <a href="http://flyzipline.com/product/" target="_blank">Zipline</a>. 2016. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Africa: Govt Closer to Using Drones in Medical Supplies Delivery</span></h3>
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Published on May 15, 2016 at 7:32 pm in <b>All Africa </b>by Julius Bizimungu </div>
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<a href="http://ktpress.rw/2016/04/rwanda-army-joins-battle-against-malaria/" target="_blank">http://allafrica.com/stories/201605160346.html</a></div>
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Zipline
Inc, a California-based robotics firm Friday announced details of a
partnership with Government to make on-demand deliveries of life-saving
medical products using drones.</div>
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This follows a deal
signed in February, between the government and the firm to build
infrastructure for unmanned aerial system (UAS) to ensure efficient
logistical transportation of medical supplies in the country.</div>
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Speaking during a
press briefing, the Minister for Youth and ICT, Jean-Philbert
Nsengimana, said that Rwanda is ready to receive the first delivery of
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"We have had a
fruitful and a fun-filled week talking about the forth industrial
revolution at the World Economic Forum (WEF). I think it's very
significant for people to know that what they might think will be
achieved in future, is already here in Rwanda. We already have the
technology that people think we will have in the future. Rwanda is ready
to receive the network of drones, and I truly believe this is going to
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Often, essential health products don't reach the people who urgently need them.</div>
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According to the
World Health Organisation (WHO), millions of mothers and children die
every year due to conditions that could be prevented or treated with
access to simple, and affordable medical interventions.</div>
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However, in the
developing world, access to these interventions is hampered by what is
known as the last-mile problem: the inability to deliver needed medicine
from a city to rural or remote locations due to lack of adequate
transportation, communication and supply chain infrastructure.</div>
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The distribution of
blood products is particularly challenging given the strict temperature
requirements and short shelf life. Africa has the highest rate of
maternal deaths in the world, mainly due to post partum hemorrhaging,
which makes access to lifesaving blood transfusions critically important
for women across the continent.</div>
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In Rwanda, rural
hospitals have struggled with supplies in the past due to their isolated
locations. Most life-saving supplies are currently delivered via
motorcycles. According to Dr Agnes Binagwaho, the Minister for Health, the initiative is truly a life-saving technology. "We have
established that if we manage to use this technology, it will be a
life-saving initiative. There are a lot of advantages, but I'm also
hopeful that as pioneers we learn by doing. Although, I can't predict
how many lives will be saved, even saving one life is crucial," she
said.</div>
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According to Keller
Rinaudo, Zipline Chief Executive Officer, the company is working with
the government of Rwanda to create a network of delivery drones that
will ferry medical supplierding to the World Health Organisation (WHO),
millions of mothers and children die every year due to conditions that
could be prevented or treated with access to simple, and affordable
medical interventions.</div>
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However, in the
developing world, access to these interventions is hampered by what is
known as the last-mile problem: the inability to deliver needed medicine
from a city to rural or remote locations due to lack of adequate
transportation, communication and supply chain infrastructure.</div>
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The distribution of
blood products is particularly challenging given the strict temperature
requirements and short shelf life. Africa has the highest rate of
maternal deaths in the world, mainly due to post partum hemorrhaging,
which makes access to lifesaving blood transfusions critically important
for women across the continent. </div>
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The network will have capacity to make 50 to 150 deliveries per day,
using a fleet of 15 drones, each with twin electric motors and an almost
eight-foot wingspan. The unmanned drones will use GPS to navigate, and
will airdrop supplies before returning to the landing strip from which
they were launched.
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"The inability to
deliver life-saving medicines to the people who need them the most
causes millions of preventable deaths each year. Zipline will help solve
that problem once and for all. We've built an instant delivery system
for the world, allowing medicines and other products to be delivered
on-demand and at a low-cost, anywhere," said Rinaudo.</div>
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Starting July, the
government will begin a public-private partnership with Zipline for the
last-mile delivery of all blood products throughout the country. A team
of Rwandan and American engineers will set up and operate Zipline's
first Hub in Muhanga District. From this Hub, Zipline will deliver
life-saving blood to 21 facilities located in the Northern, Western, and
Southern Provinces.</div>
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Zipline plans to
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one of Rwanda's 11 million citizens within range of lifesaving medical
product deliveries.</div>
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Africa needs stronger commitment from both public and private sectors
to tackle Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) on the continent, First
Lady Jeannette Kagame has said. Mrs Kagame made the remarks, yesterday, at a World Economic
Forum-sanctioned event convened by the END Fund on ending neglected
tropical diseases on the continent. The event intended to shade more light on the continent’s health
issues, and particularly called for increased investments in NTD control
in sub-Saharan Africa. The event was attended by Her Royal Highness the Queen of Buganda
Kingdom of Uganda, Sylvia Nagginda; the Chief Executive of the END Fund,
Ellen Agler; the Minister for Health, Dr Agnes Binagwaho, among other
officials and health experts.</div>
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<b>Buganda Queen Sylivia Nagginda delivers her keynote address at the meeting. (Courtesy) </b></div>
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A study conducted by Erasmus University, and released at the End Fund
event, indicates that Sub-Saharan Africa could save up to $52 billion
by 2030 if the region meets the World Health Organisation’s 2020 control
and eliminations target for the five most common neglected tropical
diseases, such as Elephantiasis, River blindness, Bilharzia, Intestinal
worms and Trachoma.</div>
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Mrs Kagame said this kind of events bring more light to some of the
health issues still affecting the region, calling for stronger
partnerships in bringing an end to the NTDs. “In a world fast evolving and creating new solutions to various
health, environmental, socio-economic problems, while connecting people
through technology, it comes as a sad irony that such a large population
of our planet still struggles with diseases that should have been
eradicated a long time ago,” the First Lady said. Figures indicate that 1.6 billion people have had at least one
tropical disease, while 500,000 die each year from complications linked
to the diseases. Mrs Kagame said “the figures of the number of people affected
worldwide each year, by these various tropical diseases are indeed
alarming.”
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“I believe that, for our communities to pave the way to a future free
from these health issues, we must continue educating our populations on
how to protect themselves, but also further invest in strengthening
institutions for more efficient health care systems, able to respond
rapidly to this kind of crises,” she said.</div>
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Discussing the role of traditional and cultural institutions to end
NTDs, Queen Nagginda said NDTs have been recognised as a health
challenge “yet little attention have been paid to this challenge.”</div>
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She said NTDs are mostly found along the Rift Valley side of Uganda
and urged cultural leaders to be part of the campaign to end the
diseases. “Cultural institutions have a role to play in fighting NTDs through
partnering with health institutions to promote healthcare programmes.
Cultural leaders have the ability to mobilise, modernise communities
towards health care and development matters,”
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Through her Nnabagereka Foundation, the Queen of Buganda has been
involved in several health advocacy and women empowerment efforts in
Buganda region in central Uganda.</div>
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On Rwanda’s case, according to the Ministry of Health, there were no
large scale NTDs control efforts in place and data on the burden of the
diseases until 2007. However, over the last eight years, the Government, with support of
partners such as The End Fund, has taken steps to reduce the burden of
NTDs. Dr Binagwaho said Government has since mapped the prevalence of
intestinal worms, bilharzia, elephantiasis and Trachoma, adding that it
is now “implementing a comprehensive approach to improve hygiene, mass
drug administration, among other NTDS case management campaigns.”</div>
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<b>Health minister Dr Agnes Binagwaho addresses the question of NTDs with Agler. (Courtesy) </b></div>
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“The Government has tripled the budget to curb NTDs in the last three
years, and it seeks to double the budget in the next two years,” she
said. End Fund’s Agler said NTDs control efforts “offer a return on investment unparalleled in global health.”</div>
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“Ending these debilitating diseases will help reduce poverty at all levels,” Agler said.</div>
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Mrs Kagame said, over time, Rwanda has seen a decrease in the number
of people affected by these infections and the country now considers
only two of the five NTDs to be a public health problem.<br />
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“I trust that such a conversation, will help create a stronger sense
of our shared responsibility in fighting these diseases, while
implementing strategies that can significantly empower our communities
to fully thrive, to live the kind of dignified lives, we all so
rightfully deserve, irrespective of our cultural or economic
backgrounds.”</div>
<br />Prof. Agnes Binagwahohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134443635619975945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365363333184048549.post-25811780474765494272016-04-23T03:24:00.003-07:002016-07-05T12:16:07.004-07:00Rwanda Army Joins Battle Against Malaria<h2 class="page-title">
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The Military is currently engaging different players in the health
sector to harmonise efforts against the killer disease. The Army is
coming in to utilize its resources which includes, doctors, logistical
muscle and the human resource distributed across the country.</div>
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The Ministry of Health is championing the campaign. A symposium was
organised together with the military to define strategies and
interventions that can be implemented at different levels of the health
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The head of internal medicine at Rwanda Military Hospital, Lt. Col.
Dr. Jules Kabahizi said at the symposium that the army is keen on
contributing significantly to reduce malaria cases with a long term
objective of eliminating the disease.</div>
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Health Minister Dr. Agnes Binagwaho said during a one-day Malaria
symposium at Serena Hotel that, “am glad our army has joined the battle
field. ”</div>
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“Malaria is a threat, malaria is a problem, and it’s not only for
Rwanda alone but for the whole region and it is affecting even the
economies,” she said.</div>
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According to Binagwaho, Rwanda had pushed malaria to the edge and “we
had started the elimination phase but it’s increased ten times more.”</div>
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Statistics from the ministry of health indicate the country has
managed to reduce incidence of malaria by 86%, Mobility by malaria by
87% while mortality was reduced by 74%.</div>
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Dr. Binagwaho said that mosquitoes are now able to fly between 4 to
22 kilometers a day and survive to up to a month and are able to fly
higher altitudes. This implies they can now easily fly across borders.</div>
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“Now they have leant to fly high because of global warming, it’s no
longer cold up there and in less than a month they can cover the
country,” she noted.</div>
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The movement of mosquitoes facilitated by several factors makes it
difficult for one country to lay strategies to eliminate Malaria and
thus suggests joint strategies for regional governments.</div>
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Malaria experts said drug-resistant malaria is not spreading across
eastern region, but is developing independently in isolated pockets.</div>
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For Dr. Binagwaho with this new knowledge on drug-resistant malaria,
there is need for regional member states to collaborate on a new
strategy for combating the potentially fatal parasite.</div>
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Prof Zulu Prenji, chair-pathology in Aga Khan university Hospital told<i> KTPress</i>
that Malaria fight needs political support. He explained that in
countries where there are problems such as corruption, the fight becomes
challenged.</div>
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Dr. Olushayo Olu, World Health Organisation Representative in Rwanda
says despite remarkable increase in malaria cases, countries still have
room to eliminate Malaria deaths through early detection and prevention.</div>
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Meanwhile, in a rare breakthrough, an international team of
scientists has discovered that a mutation that makes parasites resistant
to a key anti-malarial drug winds up killing them.</div>
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“The resistant parasites die before they can infect another person,”
said Christopher D. Goodman of the University of Melbourne, a member of
the research team.</div>
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Local and international experts on health financing are meeting in Nyamata, Bugesera District to discuss the desired health financing modifications and how they can be aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals.</div>
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The two-day conference that opened yesterday is held under the theme: “Health financing reforms in the eve of sustainable development goals.”</div>
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The conference attracted over 150 participants, including experts from Senegal, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia, deliberating on how current health financing policies can be a stepping-stone toward achieving the SDGs.</div>
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The national and international experts, especially those who have contributed in the design and implementation of health financing reforms in Rwanda are sharing current state of health financing policies and brainstorming about the future directions.</div>
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Minister Gatete explains the challenges of priotising finance in the health sector.</div>
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Dr Agnes Binagwaho, the Minister for Health in an interview with journalists said the conference would come up with ideas on how to generate finances for the health sector and look at ways of using it efficiently.</div>
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“Rwanda has achieved the SDGs, but to us, it is not enough. We want more achievements and it needs money.</div>
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So these health financing experts are gathering to come up with innovations of financing the health sector and how we can use the finances efficiently.We need innovation for example electronic medical records which use ICT linked with diagnostics. Such innovations reduce the money spent or bring efficient spending. We hope to come up with solutions for the future in the global architecture of health.”</div>
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Claver Gatete, the Minister for Finance and Economic Planning emphasised the importance of financing the health sector which he described as the foundation of all development in Rwanda.</div>
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“The health sector is an area that we can’t avoid because it will come back and haunt us. It is the foundation of all development in Rwanda.The topic of health financing is very timely. It comes at a time when we are looking at what we have achieved in vision 2020. So, it will help us to see ways of financing the health sector and how we can work with the other financing institutions to contribute to the sector,” he said.</div>
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“Investing in health sector is very important.For instance if we invest in health equipment, there will be no more going to India for surgeries and other complex medical processes.And this can save a lot of money and even bring in forex when neighbouring countries send their patients for treatment here.”</div>
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He also called for innovation that will see Rwanda be able to finance such institutions without depending on support from outside countries, citing an example from last year’s budget where 66 per cent was from domestic resources, 14 percent borrowed and 20 per cent from grants.</div>
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“We should think differently. We cannot expect that money will always be coming from outside all the time.We have to think innovatively towards health financing by working with partners, tapping into the private sector institutions and most importantly engaging the population.”</div>
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He expressed hope that by working together, the health system can change for the better and thanked the financing partners working with the ministry of health including Global Fund, the US government, Bill Gates Foundation, Rocke Fella Foundationand bilateral donors like the Belgians among others.</div>
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The Rwanda Vision 2020 considers health financial accessibility as a key priority among its strategic direction</div>
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The discussions from the meeting will feed into the current government process of developing a health sustainability plan for the whole health sector.</div>
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As one of six kids, Gabriela Sarriera '17 is practiced in the art of speaking up and asking for what she wants. So when the microbiology major heard the Rwandan minister of health deliver a moving talk at the Global Health and Innovation Conference at Yale last year, she waited patiently in the long line after the keynote — not to ask for a photo as others had done — but to ask for a job.</div>
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“I want to know how can I help,” she remembers telling Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, a pediatrician who returned to her home country after the genocide and has helped recover a ravaged health system. Sarriera, who attended the conference as a member of UVM’s global health club, MedVida, also has plans to pursue medical school and become a pediatrician. But beyond just a career role model for Sarriera, Binagwaho is an inspiration.</div>
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The minister is the <a href="http://features.healthdata.org/roux-prize-2015-winner" style="color: #444444;">2015 winner of the Roux Prize</a> for her work to rebuild trust in the Rwandan health system and her contribution to initiatives that have increased the country’s life expectancy by 20 years, drastically dropped the maternal mortality rate, and, now that people are living longer, is expanding care for non-communicable diseases, as well. <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/02/rwandas-historic-health-recovery-what-the-us-might-learn/273226/" style="color: #444444;"><em>The Atlantic</em> has called it a historic recovery — one the U.S. could learn from</a>.</div>
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Sarriera promised the minister that if she accepted her help, she would find a way to get to Rwanda. FaceTiming from Kigali nearly 12 months after the Yale conference, Sarriera makes clear the gratitude she has for Binagwaho, who, amazingly, took a chance on the undergrad by offering her an internship, exposing her to work normally reserved for graduate students.</div>
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For three months now, Sarriera’s been immersed in learning the history of the Rwandan legal system. Why law when it’s medicine she wants to pursue? Her project expands on Binagwaho’s doctoral research, which uncovered troubling limits the colonial-influenced legal system puts on ensuring all citizens have the same access to healthcare. The path forward in the health sector means fully understanding policy that’s been shaped by a complex history.</div>
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Sarriera’s work began Christmas day with a flight to Europe, where the English minor began her internship with a document search, trying to trace the history of the book of laws that’s the basis for Rwanda’s legal system.</div>
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Prof. Agnes Binagwahohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134443635619975945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365363333184048549.post-44046073049151478612015-09-26T18:23:00.001-07:002016-07-05T12:15:26.620-07:00Vaccines in Rwanda<div style="text-align: justify;">
Please see this piece on vaccines in Rwanda recently published by Vaccineswork. It was a pleasure working on this article with Anisha Hedge, a medical student at the University of Virginia who spent the past summer in Rwanda. Here, we provide an overview of the benefits of vaccines in our efforts to improve the health and well-being of Rwanda. Please see the entire article here: <a href="http://tmblr.co/Z_c1Ou1tXdTN1" target="_blank">http://tmblr.co/Z_c1Ou1tXdTN1 </a></div>
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Rwanda has demonstrated the value of vaccines over the past 15 years, as the rollout of new and underused vaccines has helped us reduce under-five mortality by two thirds, and achieve the fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) along the way. This year, as the world transitions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and partners aim to end poverty by 2030, immunisation must remain at the core of the health agenda. As well as saving lives, the benefits of vaccination programmes stretch beyond immunisation to improving health services and promoting social integration, and Rwanda is the case study to prove it.</div>
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1. Vaccination campaigns at the centre of societal development</h2>
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Rwanda has <a href="http://www.gavi.org/country/rwanda/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(224, 226, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #0070ba; margin: -1px 0px 0px; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">increased basic vaccine coverage </a>(DTP3) from 77% in 2001 to 99% in 2014. In the last seven years Rwanda has introduced new and under-used vaccines against pneumococcus, rotavirus, rubella and human papillomavirus (HPV), and maintained high rates for traditional vaccines. Vaccination campaigns present the opportunity to reach out to the population with a range of other health services. During the pneumococcal campaign in 2009, advice was given on causes and symptoms of pneumonia to facilitate early detection and access to treatment. Community health workers also educated parents on good health practices such as breastfeeding and wholesome nutrition.</div>
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To encourage equal access to health care, Rwanda holds a Mother and Child Health Week twice a year. It offers a range of health services; vaccination campaigns such as rubella and HPV for adolescent girls, the provision of iron tablets for pregnant and lactating women to prevent anaemia, vitamin A supplements for all children under five years and a family planning campaign for women of reproductive age.</div>
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3. Forging national partnerships</h2>
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Vaccination programmes have fostered new working relations between different governmental and non-governmental organisations. This was evident with the rollout of the HPV vaccine in schools in Rwanda which involved a partnership between the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion and the Ministry of Local Government in order to reach adolescent girls in schools and communities. </div>
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4. Strengthening healthcare infrastructure</h2>
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Adequate health system infrastructure is essential for the effective rollout of vaccines. In Rwanda this has included improved waste disposal facilities for contaminated materials, new cold rooms for temperature-controlled storage and increased medical storage capacity. </div>
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Currently, the Rwandan government self-finances all traditional vaccines, such as the tuberculosis vaccine BCG, and co-finances with international partners to provide new and under-utilised vaccines. This trend has been demonstrated with the pneumococcal vaccine and is currently unfolding with the HPV vaccine, which protects against major causes of cervical cancer. Looking ahead, we hope that as demand increases, vaccine prices will be driven down, thereby creating a sustainable future for vaccine provision. </div>
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Globally, there is still a way to go. One in five children in Gavi supported countries still miss out on the basic package of childhood vaccines; around the world about 1.5 million children die from vaccine-preventable diseases each year. But as our country has shown, immunisation can sustainably address this inequity, and so much more besides. With immunisation as part of the next set of development goals, we can help all countries make the most of these vital tools, and we should — because life, whether lived in the remote areas of Rwanda or the suburbs of London, deserves a fighting chance.</div>
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I spend a lot of time explaining and promoting Rwanda’s
record on public health to audiences around the world. Together with our
research and funding partners, Rwanda has made unprecedented strides on almost
every health measure. We are one of the few developing countries that will meet
all MDG targets. All Rwandans have access to health insurance, and maternal
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For Angus Deaton, these gains only served to entrench
dictatorship and repression in Rwanda. How? By threatening to let our children
die unless altruistic and gullible Westerners pay our government to keep them
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Deaton believes that we ‘provide health care for Rwandan
mothers and children’ in order to ‘insulate ourselves from the needs and wishes
of our people’. I can’t tell if he means that Rwandans don’t wish for good
health, or that our country would be more democratic if we neglected basic
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As a Rwandan, and as a physician, I have heard a lot of
outrageous statements in my life. But Professor Deaton has invented an entirely new level of absolutism.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How does one begin to reply? More facts and figures about
Rwanda’s progress would only reinforce Deaton’s grotesque logic. Testimonials
from the donors and researchers who know Rwanda best would be dismissed as
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Moreover, Rwanda is not the issue here, and I would feel no
satisfaction if Deaton apologized to Rwanda and then went to pick on a
different country that better exemplifies his stereotypes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The issue is moral, and it concerns all of us. Deaton’s
theory rests on the assumption that Africans don’t feel love for their children.
It follows that President Kagame, being an African, sees children as a commodity,
like copper or sweet potatoes, to be sold to people in the West who value their
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Angus Deaton doesn’t know Paul Kagame from Kunta Kinte. The
president is just a cartoon character he uses to argue against foreign aid.
Deaton isn’t referring to the real Paul Kagame or the real Rwanda, but to a
generic ‘other’ whose moral inferiority is so self-evident that it requires no
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In other words, Deaton knew his readers would share in the
contempt. In point of fact, Paul Singer replied complaining about Deaton’s criticisms of
his work; but he made no mention of the scandalous libel of President Kagame.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is neither ignorance or carelessness. It is an ideology
of moral superiority, a form of racism that is all the more pernicious because
it has no name and leaves no marks on its victims. Eventually the victims
internalize it and come to despise themselves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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By dropping the mask a little, perhaps Angus Deaton has done
us all a favor. We need to have more honest conversations about the assumptions
implicit in judgments we make about each other. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rwanda’s story is tragic and hopeful in equal
measure. Maybe the first step is for Angus Deaton, Paul Singer, and anyone else
who feels concerned by this exchange, to visit Rwanda and see for themselves what
kind of people we are, and how we care for our children. They would not be the
first visitors to Rwanda who left with a deeper appreciation for our common
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The following essay on Rwanda's Quest for Universal Health Coverage was featured in the Commonwealth Health Partnerships annual booklet, which is now available online: <a href="http://www.commonwealthofnations.org/wp-content/ebooks/CHP15/#/102/">http://www.commonwealthofnations.org/wp-content/ebooks/CHP15/#/102/</a></div>
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<br />Prof. Agnes Binagwahohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134443635619975945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365363333184048549.post-21131126824043484982015-06-17T17:42:00.000-07:002016-07-05T12:17:44.307-07:00The importance of claiming our future<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can view the article here: <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60934-5/abstract">http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60934-5/abstract</a> </span><br />
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<br />Prof. Agnes Binagwahohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134443635619975945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365363333184048549.post-31714293973714084582015-05-10T14:12:00.000-07:002016-07-05T12:18:03.761-07:00Op-Ed in New Times on Labour Day<div style="text-align: justify;">
Below is an Op-Ed I composed for the New Times that was published on Labour Day in Rwanda. May we continue to "ignore detractors".</div>
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For Op-Ed - visit: <a href="http://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/article/2015-05-01/188367/" target="_blank">http://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/article/2015-05-01/188367/ </a></div>
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"Today, as we celebrate the International Labour Day, I reflect upon the great challenges that Rwanda faced 21 years ago and then consider the great progress that has been made by all the workers in Rwanda; I am so proud to call Rwanda my home.</div>
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However, when I read news articles suggesting that our progress is somehow “following in the footsteps” of other countries, I find this argument wanting. Though it may not be intentional, such a characterization of our progress has the insulting implication that workers in Rwanda are incapable of seeking out innovative solutions to improve their lives on their own.</div>
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My conclusion is that some of the people who make such claims, many of whom have never set foot in Rwanda, believe that a country of black people in the heart of Africa is incapable of achieving the kind of progress they only read or hear about.</div>
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On the contrary, under the visionary leadership of President Paul Kagame, workers in Rwanda have demonstrated great will and ability to plan and deliver substantial improvements on our economy, health, education and governance sectors.</div>
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After 1994, much of the world viewed Rwanda as a failed state. They expected us to stay disorganised. That has always been their expectation of black Africans, a pre-judgment that is not immune to racism. Indeed such analysis unveils a pernicious double standard.</div>
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Thus, for those who have observed Rwanda’s progress, they have been surprised. According to the World Bank, Rwanda still only has a GDP per capita of $638. Yet, we have made progress that exceeds this level of development.</div>
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We have managed to do more with each available dollar.</div>
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The world does not expect that workers in Rwanda keep streets clean, and that the country is governed according to the rule of law. A population full of energy and hope, a police force that protects and services the people without asking for a bribe, an army that protects civil rights and uses its personnel to promote the health, education and wealth of the citizens under its protection. And yet this is the reality here.</div>
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And still, today, 21 years after the Genocide, people are astonished that we used our own energy and forward looking minds to get out of the dark hole that characterised our past, and even more so, that we have done this in one generation. </div>
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Their surprise is due to the unwarranted low expectations of us. They cannot deny the undeniable evidence that such progress has been made, they only argue that it is because we have followed in the steps of others. Often, they suggest that we are mimicking Singapore, as opposed to building our future based on our own Rwandan values.</div>
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The desire to strive for excellence is universal. To simplify the pursuit of excellence in Rwanda to an effort to “mimic” or copy another’s success undermines all the Rwandan workers who have made Rwanda’s journey possible. We do not need other countries to inspire us to work for the good for our people.</div>
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We have had our own innovations that have contributed to Rwanda’s development. These include Gacaca courts, the One Cow per Family programme (Girinka), the national dialogue (Umushyikirano) during which leaders are held accountable by the electorate, and the conception of global partnerships such as Rwanda’s Human Resources for Health Programme, which is creating high quality physicians to improve our nation’s health.</div>
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Other examples include community participation to facilitate vaccination of 90 per cent of our children with 11 vaccines, a record rate of coverage. Another example is the community empowerment of people in villages to select 45,000 dedicated voluntary health workers.</div>
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I could also talk about the national policy to ensure equity in human development and access to health opportunities even for the most vulnerable – a pillar of our national policies – which has allowed Rwanda to have community-based health insurance (Mutuelles de Santé) a health centre staffed by nurses in each sector (except 18, to be covered soon), a district hospital in each district, and a provincial hospital in each province. In addition, three new referral hospitals are planned to ensure that Rwandan citizens are equitably served.</div>
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We certainly have had the accompaniment and support of tremendous partners since 1994 and we are absolutely grateful to them, but it is the Rwandan people who, with their relentless efforts, have fundamentally driven this progress.</div>
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I am grateful for the transformative leadership that holds us accountable to ensure we meet the highest expectations, that does not accept actions that would promote double standards, and promotes the fulfillment of human rights as we carry forth on this path towards a better tomorrow. </div>
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Happy International Labour Day!</div>
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Prof. Agnes Binagwahohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134443635619975945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365363333184048549.post-71623331062751578642015-04-30T01:15:00.000-07:002016-07-05T12:18:57.568-07:00Ministry of Health Commemoration Event<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">I was honored to participate in the commemoration events in Nyanza where we commemorated our brothers and sisters killed during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Afterwards, we held an event for 35 Ministry of Health colleagues who were killed during the genocide against the Tutsi 21 years ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"The health sector has recommitted to fighting Genocide denial country continues to mark the 21st anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> "Remembering the departed is a responsibility to every Rwandan, but it is even more important to our profession which is tasked to save lives"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">‘‘Everybody was created to live, not to be killed. And remember the perpetrators are still there. So, we have to fight them, and fight Genocide ideology, denial and trivialisation,” said James Kamanzi, the Acting Director General of Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Kamanzi was speaking at Nyanza Genocide Memorial site in Kicukiro District during an event to remember the 35 former employees of the Ministry of Health (MoH) who were killed during the Genocide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He noted that the Genocide was stopped by Rwandans and urged health workers to strive for self-reliance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“No one can love Rwandans or solve their problems more than Rwandans themselves. When the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) left amidst the brutal killings, the RPF <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Inkotanyi </em>stopped the Genocide. ‘‘So, learn from their heroic actions, never wait for foreign aid but seek to be self-reliant,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Encouraging everyone to comfort and support survivors, Kamanzi stressed the importance of remembrance in ensuring that the notion of ‘Never Again’ is a reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">At least 11,000 Genocide victims are buried at Nyanza memorial site, including 3,000 who were killed at Nyanza and 8,000 from nearby areas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Naphtal Ahishakiye, the Executive Secretary of the umbrella of Genocide survivors associations, Ibuka, recounted the awful killing of 3,000 people who had sought refuge at the former Ecole Technique Officielle (ETO) Kicukiro, currently the Integrated Polytechnic Regional Centre (IPRC) Kigali.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> “At the height of the Genocide, the Belgian peacekeepers said that their mission was over and withdrew from ETO School on April 11, leaving at least 3,000 Tutsi behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">During the event, Dr Agnes Binagwaho, the Minister for Health, led other officials at the ministry, to lay wreaths on the graves of Genocide victims there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The event was followed by a ‘walk to remember’ from IPRC to MoH offices, where commemoration activities continued.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> After lighting the flame of hope, participants listened to testimonies of two Genocide survivors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Constantin Ntaramana, a worker at the National Centre for Blood Transfusion (NCBT), testified how he was confined to his work place and fed on glucose for about three weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">‘‘I stayed there, hiding in the ceiling and feeding on serum glucose until late May when someone took me to the International Committee of the Red Cross. There, the RPF saved us from the killers,” he recalled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">‘‘I watched my father, and siblings being killed with machetes while hiding, but later I started wishing I could have been killed with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">‘‘I used to sit by their dead bodies, waiting for my turn but I always survived,” he testified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">*New Times Article written by Jean Mugabo - http://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/article/2015-04-25/188184/ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">Below is my Op-Ed on Kwibuka 21 that was published in New Times in April 2015. I hope you will take a moment to read through these reflections on what happened in Rwanda 21 years ago and where we are today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For the survivors who chose to seek reconciliation as opposed to revenge, you have allowed this country to move forward to where it is today. I am deeply humbled by your courage to forgive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">By doing so, you have offered your hand to lift Rwanda from the ashes it once was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Today, we are a peaceful and strong country. We are proud of what we have become. As His Excellency President Paul Kagame has said, “this country has changed for the better and for forever”. I am thankful for this transformative leadership that has guided and inspired us all along this difficult but meaningful journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Immediately after the Genocide against the Tutsi, 21 years ago, much of the world viewed Rwanda as a lost cause. They expected us to fail if we were left to our own devices. They believed, as usual, that it was a place that required a hero from the outside. But they were mistaken. Our heroes are you the survivors and you our great President, Paul Kagame, who led us to our journey of recovery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mister President you are a true hero for leading those who ended the 1994 Genocide. You are a hero for continuing to lead us in our quest for stability, peace, development and prosperity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My other heroes are those survivors who have faced unimaginable suffering, trauma and pain and yet are striving daily for a better future for all Rwandans - for both survivors and perpetuators and the generations to come. I salute the values that have guided you, including the spirit of self-determination and ownership. Agaciro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Because of you, Rwanda has shown that poverty, savagery, revenge and terror are not acceptable destinies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Our story since 1994 has also helped to show how misguided and harmful opinions can be when it comes to false global solutions to assist nations that are trying to overcome great obstacles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For instance, some justified withholding life-saving health interventions from Rwanda’s children because it will add “man-years of human misery”, (The Lancet)[i]. There are some in this world that promote such failures to humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I could provide many other examples of international organisations that essentially did the same in so many areas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The world failed to imagine that Rwanda could be where it is today. We have thus proven these dangerous skeptics wrong. We have shown that we can break dangerous cycles of despair through forgiveness, reconciliation, and standing united for a brighter future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Many describe Rwanda’s transformation over the past two decades as nothing short of a miracle. And yet this discredits the intentional and participatory processes that we have developed as a country to overcome these formidable obstacles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Under the guidance of our President, a leader who knew that a brighter future would only be possible if Rwandans internalised and worked towards this vision collectively. We trusted him and he leads this movement to be innovative in our collective thinking. We have refused to leave the most vulnerable behind and held strong to our commitment to equity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We have created policies that are relevant and responsive to the community at the grassroots level. We have sought out partners who share in our Vision 2020 and beyond. And so much more. Such innovations have translated into consistent economic growth and unprecedented health improvements, among others. Thank you Mister President.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">While we have come so far, we all know that we have a long way to go under your guidance. Our journey has only begun. But this promising future for our beautiful land of a thousand hills would not be possible without the critical, challenging first steps that our beloved survivors took to pursue real and lasting reconciliation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To each of you, I hope you know how deeply I admire your courage and thank you for the opportunity to learn from you and be with you in this journey towards a brighter future for all Rwandans."</span></div>
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Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, a paediatrician, has been Rwanda’s Minister of Health for the past four years. She discusses the efforts Rwanda is making to bring high-quality, affordable healthcare to its people and outlines current and future projects.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Dr. Agnes Binagwaho:</strong> <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rwanda has achieved more progress in its healthcare sector than expected, in spite of limited funding. Great improvements have been made in access to services, financing, equipment and human resources. The Ministry of Health is working with high synergy across sectors to use funding as efficiently as possible. Rwanda has reduced death rates from AIDs, malaria and TB, and now offers universal access to HIV treatment. Around 90% of Rwandan children have been vaccinated with ten different vaccines. We are steadily increasing the number and quality of our healthcare professionals and we have implemented an advanced electronic information system for the healthcare network.</em></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Dr. Agnes Binagwaho:</strong> <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The ministry’s mission is to bring good health to all Rwandans. Having made great progress in combating communicable diseases, Rwanda now needs to tackle non-communicable diseases. The ministry has launched preventive campaigns concerning protection from HIV infection, the need to wear seatbelts and helmets, and the risks of smoking. We will continue to expand the healthcare network and will upgrade existing hospitals to three more referral and four provincial hospitals. The ministry is promoting private-sector participation, public-private partnerships, education and investment in healthcare infrastructure. Public-private partnerships are already very important in the healthcare sector, since around 40% of the country’s hospitals are privately owned but benefit from government support.</em></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Dr. Agnes Binagwaho:</strong> <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We need more healthcare professionals and more specialists in different medical fields, including oncology. Rwanda now has nine nursing schools which will graduate a total of around 900 nurses per year. We need to quadruple the number of Rwanda’s healthcare professionals so Rwanda welcomes private universities offering healthcare training. Expanding the healthcare infrastructure is one of the Ministry’s goals.</em></div>
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<br />Prof. Agnes Binagwahohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134443635619975945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365363333184048549.post-45572668173632142812015-02-19T00:54:00.000-08:002016-07-05T12:20:38.223-07:00New Times Op Ed - Why We Must Strengthen Our Institutions for Rwanda's Health<div style="text-align: justify;">
I hope you will take a moment to read <a href="http://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/article/2015-02-18/186076/" target="_blank">my OpEd published</a> by the New Times on 18 February 2015 regarding the need to strengthen our institutions to assure a better health system for Rwandans.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"We know how far we have come to be where we are today. As I reflect upon several achievements attained not only as the health sector but the entire nation, I am also reminded of the long journey ahead to meet the set goals in the interest of all Rwandans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A good example is the positive outcomes we have witnessed following the decentralization of our health system. Decentralization in Rwanda has translated into real and meaningful empowerment, placing critical responsibility in the hands of the local leaders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This empowerment has grown in parallel with the increasing capacity of the central government to monitor, evaluate, and strengthen its auditing role. This has helped improve accountability across all levels to ensure we are doing all we can to better the healthcare system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For instance, by applying the fiscal decentralization with the national budget, hospitals have been assigned their funds through the district budgeting process. Also, other health financing strategies for the country are based on decentralization.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This includes the community-based health insurance known as Mutuelles de Sante, which serves as a useful example to demonstrate how the local and central governing structures work together. It also shows how we are continually learning and adapting to improve the program.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mutuelles was created about 15 years ago and it is now undergoing its third major reform. The first reform involved changing the amount that each household paid for their health insurance premiums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">At first, each household paid for a single household, but the reform ensured that each household would contribute the amount appropriate to reflect the number of people in their domicile to improve fairness of the contributions across the country as well as financial access for all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The second reform involved the implementation of the stratification system, so that each person would pay in accordance with their income as opposed to a flat fee per person. The third reform is ongoing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The government is transitioning the management of Mutuelles to the financial professionals at the Rwandan Social Security Board which has the mission to provide quality management of health insurance. This will ensure the sustainability of the programme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">All of these reforms have relied upon an effective decentralization of responsibility and authority to the local governments that also oversee Mutuelles starting at the district level; the direct management of the Mutuelle staff by the local administration puts the Mayor in charge of this programme in that district.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In general, this decentralization structure has been working well. Having local leadership overseeing the local implementation of Mutuelles has been helpful. These local leaders have, on the whole, been loyal, trustworthy and hardworking, and are dedicated to their mission vis-a-vis their administrees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Unfortunately, however, there have been a handful of local leaders who have been dishonest – acting as though they were more powerful than Rwandan institutions. They did so by stealing the hard-earned money that people had placed to get their health insurance locally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And such dishonest acts were discovered through the complementary, central auditing system in place through the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Local Government, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, and the Ministry of Health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In Rwanda, we have a zero tolerance for corruption. Thus, at all levels, we create institutions, such as the auditing system noted above, that reinforces accountability and discourages dishonest actionsby making the cost of corruption high.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In this case, those local leaders who unjustly took money from the health insurance pool for their own personal gain were appropriately identified by this system. These individuals will be held accountable for their criminal actions and will reimburse up to the last penny of what they have taken, even if this means that they have to sell their assets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Rwandans should rest assured that their investment into their health insurance will not be lost. We have learned from this experience that we can be even more vigilant in our fight against any form of corruption, nepotism, or any crime moving forward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Creating systems that reinforce honesty and accountability is very vital to protecting our integrity, our rights, and development as a country, especially as we strive to reach our Vision 2020 goals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Yet this experience has taught us that we need to foster the growth of honest local leaders coupled with improved central level institutions that bolster accountability and reassure the people that their interests are being protected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I am grateful to live and work in a country where systems are strong enough to identify and correct problem areas or loopholes. Our effort to learn from both our successes and mistakes allows us to continuously improve every day in our efforts to protect public goods, community assets and people’s rights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">*Published in the New Times on 18 February 2015. Available at: http://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/article/2015-02-18/186076/</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; letter-spacing: -0.014666667208075523px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Today, as Rwanda’s Minister of Health, I can attest to the great progress our country has made to improve the health of everyone living in the “land of a thousand hills.” But I also recognize how critical it is to keep pressing onward, not only as a country, but also as a continent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; letter-spacing: -0.014666667208075523px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Twenty years ago, Rwanda was a nation devastated by genocide and war: Nearly eight in ten people lived in poverty, our health system was all but destroyed, and one in four infants didn’t make it to his or her fifth birthday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">At the 2014 Services Investment Forum (SIF) recently held in Kigali, I was delighted to participate in the panel discussion focused on our country's healthcare system. We covered a number of topics, including how to improve quality, the drivers of prices of healthcare services, the decentralization framework that has improved geographical
proximity to care, as well as where we are going as a country. We also discussed Rwanda's health services strategies, current challenges and opportunities, and proposed solutions to
overcome the existing challenges for Rwanda. There is much to be done to create the infrastructure and environment we need to position Rwanda as a health care hub of
excellence for the region and the world. And we are motivated to do this important work. You can watch my remarks <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqhOOfvFkz4" target="_blank">here</a>:</span></div>
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I was so pleased to have the chance to contribute some remarks regarding the importance of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as a global coalition celebrated UHC Day 2014 on 12 December 2014. You can view a <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/l/YcmgHgPHvuF4dpxGE0GKrp" target="_blank">video </a>of my remarks that was presented at a <a href="http://uhcday.tumblr.com/post/104305235800/the-london-school-of-hygiene-tropical-medicine" target="_blank">launch day event in London</a>, UK, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and learn about all of the great work of this coalition through their website: <a href="http://universalhealthcoverageday.org/welcome/%C2%A0" target="_blank">http://universalhealthcoverageday.org/welcome/ </a>. We should all continue to monitor and support this great #HEALTHFORALL campaign.</div>
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<span id="goog_99836858"></span><span id="goog_99836859"></span><br />Prof. Agnes Binagwahohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134443635619975945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365363333184048549.post-22010527850262683722014-10-04T04:41:00.002-07:002016-07-05T12:22:28.939-07:00How Design Can Heal<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Please take a moment to watch this video by our friends in architecture - the MASS Design Group - who helped to construct the Butaro hospital.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Link:</i> <a href="http://vimeo.com/106936022">http://vimeo.com/106936022</a></span></div>
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