Last month, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded the global Evidence to Action for Strengthened Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services for Women and Girls (E2A) project to a Pathfinder International-led consortium that includes IntraHealth International, Management Sciences for Health, PATH, the African Population and Health Research Center,

In this GlobalPost report, Gregory Branch visited Rwanda's Mukono Health Center, which has integrated it's health services "for everything including HIV/AIDS, malaria, maternal and child health care, family planning and reproductive health."

“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. Rwanda's adoption of a palliative care policy, supported by this USAID-funded program, was recently profiled in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) article, "Rwanda Moving to Provide 'Good Deaths' for Terminally Ill.”

Marie Louise Uwimana, the Gasabo District's Vice Mayor in charge of Social Affairs, told The New Times that a seminar on fighting malnutrition will jointly be organised by the district, Kibagabaga Hospital and IntraHealth International. 

"Fighting malnutrition in the entire district is among our priorities for this year, which is why we want to train health counsellors on how best they can teach residents to avoid diseases like Kwashiorkor," Uwimana said.