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 Joan Mbabazi
Joan Mbabazi
This practice helps alleviate tired eyes and other symptoms of digital eye strain.
Health
Digital eye strain: Here’s what you can do to relieve tired eyes, headache
Sheikh Musa Sindayigaya, the Mufti of Rwanda, encourages muslims to embrace the deeper meaning of fasting, focusing on spiritual reflection, empathy, and self-discipline. Craish Bahizi
Religion
Rwandan Muslims urged to embrace empathy, self-discipline during Ramadan
Rwandan clinical psychotherapist and filmmaker, Dr. Celestin Mutuyimana (dressed in white) posing for a group picture with some of the attendees at the film launch on February 26, in Switzerland
Music
Rwandan psychotherapist launches film on trauma and healing
Teen girls follow instructions on contraceptives during the HIV Prevention Campaign by AEE Rwanda  in Gasabo on December 2, 2024. Photos by Emmanuel Dushimimana
Health
Contraception among teenagers: What you need to know
Farmers work in a sweet potato plantation in Muko Sector in Musanze. Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture
Use of human waste as fertilizer: What are the risks?
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Art
Signs of change: Art exhibition portrays challenges of deaf people during natural disasters
Minister of Youth and Arts, Jean Nepo Abdallah delivers his remarks during the International Mother Language Day celebration at Lycée de Kigali, Nyarugenge District, on Friday, February 21. Courtesy
Culture
Minister urges youth to respect Kinyarwanda
To stick eyelash extensions include chemicals and ingredients that may be irritating or harmful
When beauty goes wrong: How eyelash extensions could breed infections
Françoise Mukandutiye, a 33-year-old resident of Kimonyi Sector in Musanze District, has spent nearly two decades battling podoconiosis. Courtesy
Health
Podoconiosis: A neglected disease affecting 6,000 Rwandans with less awareness
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Health
Ditch the salt shaker, protect your heart – experts
A medic shows how the newly installed machine functions inside the Radiotherapy cancer centre at Rwanda Military Hospital, in Kanombe. Courtesy
Health
Rwanda set to launch cervical cancer elimination plan
Panelists engage in a discussion  at  the International Conference on Neglected Tropical Disease Research in Africa on Monday, January 20. Photo by Craish Bahizi
Health
Innovative strategies for Africa’s NTD burden take centre stage at global conference in Kigali
Cancer patients at Butaro Cancer Centre of Excellence in Burera District. File
Health
Rwanda moves to make cancer treatment more affordable for population
A rider of the Isokko app ready to set off for delivery
Technology
Isokko: How Kigali’s new online shopping app was born
Stakeholders who gathered in Kigali to validate and discuss findings from a new NTDs assessment
Health
Bugesera and Ruhango: Assessment highlights urgent water, sanitation gaps in NTDs fight
A patient undergoes an eye screening at Rwanda Charity Eye Hospital, l in Bishenyi, Runda sector, Kamonyi district. Photo by Willy Mucyo
Health
Glaucoma: How is Rwanda combating the “silent thief of vision?”
Kirehe District authorities are collaborating with Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) to ensure necessary preventive protocols are in place.
Health
Kirehe mayor ‘raising awareness’ after suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania
Since 2020, Rwanda has distributed pyrethroid-PBO and G2 insecticide-treated bed nets to combat mosquito resistance. Craish Bahizi
Health
Seven key things Rwanda is doing to combat malaria surge

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