Rwanda
Rwanda
With over 30 years of partnership with Rwanda, we have been working with the Government of Rwanda toward its goal of health care reform and high-quality health care to all. Starting with performance-based financing as a key element of reform, we have helped to improve the availability, delivery, and quality of health services by strengthening financing and improving quality in the public and private health sectors.
Overview
Our work has helped to enhance the resilience of Rwanda’s health sector, including bringing health insurance to more than 80% of Rwanda’s population. By addressing the challenges of human resources shortages, especially in rural areas; poor quality of services; and a high morbidity and mortality rate among women and children, our programs support the Government of Rwanda in building a sustainable health system capable of leading and managing care with a focus on health financing, human resources for health, institutional capacity, and health information systems and data use.
We support effective pharmaceutical management in Rwanda by developing standards and an accreditation system for pharmaceutical services, promoting consistent use of regulatory systems, and building the capacity of the Rwanda FDA’s pharmacovigilance system. Current programmatic work is focused on strengthening leadership, resilience, and capacity at all levels of the health system to ensure sustained quality services and advance equitable health outcomes.
MSH in Rwanda
In 2005, MSH began partnering with the Government of Rwanda to help create a sustainable health system that has the capacity and resources to provide equitable, high-quality care to all. Together, we improved the safety monitoring of medicines, expanded COVID-19 testing and vaccination coverage, and promoted gender equity and social inclusion to ensure all Rwandans have access to comprehensive, quality services.
Webinar: Health Workforce Development through the Lens of Sustainable, Locally Led Development
In this webinar, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) discusses country partnerships in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda, focusing on how various health workforce interventions are taking a systems-approach to capacity strengthening in order to ensure that improvements last beyond the project cycle and are managed under the ongoing custodianship of local actors.
Setting the Standard for Quality Care in Rwanda
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Primary Health Care Performance Management Activity
The Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) Program
Building Capacity for National Public Health Institutes
Job Opportunities in Rwanda
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