Rwanda

• First Rwandan National Palliative Care Training Workshop

  For the last three weeks, a multidisciplinary team of Rwandan health providers has been participating in the first-ever, national palliative care training workshop for trainers. It’s one example of the concrete steps the country is taking to realize the national palliative care policy it...

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• Helping People Living with HIV Support Each Other: Emotionally, Physically, Financially

  Spéciose Mukaferesi is a nurse, and for nearly 20 years, she has lived with HIV. For much of that time, she has also lived with the stigma that can accompany a positive diagnosis. In 2007, she reached out to other women like herself to start Rushaki Health Center’s first support...

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• IntraHealth Commemorates World AIDS Day 2011

  IntraHealth offices around the world are organizing and participating in World AIDS Day 2011 activities. This year’s theme is Getting to Zero: Zero New HIV Infections, Zero Discrimination, Zero AIDS-Related Deaths. Below is a sample of IntraHealth’s World AIDS Day activities. ...

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• New Nutrition Program in Rwanda Changing Lives

  This story was originally published in a longer form by USAID. Every day, Josephine Mukamana* straps her 18-month-old daughter to her back and walks the short distance from her home to the market. During the walk, she composes a grocery list in her head. There was a time when...

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• IntraHealth\'s Rwandan Nutrition Work Featured in USAID\'s Frontlines

  The USAID Frontlines article, \" Rwandan Fruit Salad ,\" examines a nutrition education program suppported by the IntraHealth-led HIV/AIDS Clinical Services Program.

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• Making Family Planning and HIV Services More Accessible to All

  Claver Kamali is a 52-year-old man living with HIV. He lives in a small village nestled in Rwanda’s hilly landscape with his wife and four children. Every month, Claver walks from his village to the nearest health center in Mukono to get his antiretroviral therapy (ART). While...

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• Rwanda Palliative Care Work Covered in the CMAJ

  “There’s a lot of suffering and it’s not visible, all for want of drugs we take for granted in the developed world,” said Christian Stengel, director of the IntraHealth-led HIV/AIDS Clinical Services Program in Rwanda. Rwanda\'s adoption of a palliative care policy,...

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• Police Officer Épaphrodite Manigaraba on His Work with Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

  Officer Épaphrodite Manigaraba Épaphrodite Manigaraba is a young man, but already he’s established a reputation for himself as a patient, compassionate, and trustworthy police officer. “For me, justice is the fight against inequality,” he says....

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• IntraHealth’s Technical Leadership: Gender Equality in the Health Workforce

  Last month, the International Journal for Equity in Health published an article written by an IntraHealth International-led research team that highlights the absence of men in the HIV/AIDS caregiving workforce in three districts in Lesotho. The study concluded that HIV/AIDS caregiving is...

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• New UNFPA Report Highlights Need for 350,000 More Midwives

  Last week, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and partner agencies released The State of the World’s Midwifery 2011 report, which shows the world is short 350,000 midwives—nearly the same number of women who die each year from complications of pregnancy or childbirth:...

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