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Over 3,000 treated at Isange Rehabilitation Center – official

Saturday, January 25, 2025

A Community Health Worker educates residents about malnutrition in Karongi District on December 9. Photos by Olivier Mugwiza

Four reasons why community health workers could join Rwanda’s savings and credit cooperative

Saturday, January 25, 2025

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Ditch the salt shaker, protect your heart – experts

Saturday, January 25, 2025

A community health worker instructs a pregnant woman and her husband in Karongi. Community Health workers will start tracking and managing hypertension. Olivier Mugwiza

Community health workers to start screening high blood pressure

Thursday, January 23, 2025

A nurse takes care of a baby at Kirehe Hospital. A cohort of 226 nurses who graduated from the first associate nursing programme has been deployed to support the health facilities with shortage of staff. File

Over 200 nurses deployed to health centres

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Health centres and posts could start getting paid in advance for medical services in July under a pre-payment model called capitation. Photo by Craish Bahizi

Govt to roll out new health facility pre-payment model by July

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Kiziguro Hospital in Gatsibo District, which was established in 1985, is also undergoing improvements. File

10 hospitals set for major upgrade to enhance healthcare

Thursday, January 23, 2025

A medic shows how the newly installed machine functions inside the Radiotherapy cancer centre at Rwanda Military Hospital, in Kanombe. Courtesy

Rwanda set to launch cervical cancer elimination plan

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Panelists engage in a discussion at the International Conference on Neglected Tropical Disease Research in Africa on Monday, January 20. Photo by Craish Bahizi

Innovative strategies for Africa’s NTD burden take centre stage at global conference in Kigali

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Farmers sell their orange-fleshed sweet potatoes at a rural market in Nyamasheke District. File

Govt turns to orange-fleshed sweet potatoes to combat malnutrition

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Doctors conduct a screening exam at Legacy Clinic in Kigali. The government on January 17 approved the revision of health service tariffs. File

Five things to know about Rwanda's revised medical tariffs

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Cancer patients at Butaro Cancer Centre of Excellence in Burera District. File

Rwanda moves to make cancer treatment more affordable for population

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Maternal-fetal medicine specialists successfully performed an intrauterine fetal blood transfusion on a pregnant woman at 27 weeks of gestation at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) on Thursday, January 16. , the procedure was a significant achievement in maternal and fetal care. Courtesy

A first in Rwanda as doctors treat unborn baby with anaemia

Friday, January 17, 2025

Stakeholders who gathered in Kigali to validate and discuss findings from a new NTDs assessment

Bugesera and Ruhango: Assessment highlights urgent water, sanitation gaps in NTDs fight

Friday, January 17, 2025

Medics during an eye operation at Masaka Hospital in Kigali. Photo by Craish Bahizi

Inside Rwanda’s new five-year health strategy

Friday, January 17, 2025

Residents wait for medical services at Gira ubuzima health post in Burera District. Craish Bahizi

Minister highlights growing importance of health posts in Rwanda

Thursday, January 16, 2025

A patient undergoes an eye screening at Rwanda Charity Eye Hospital, l in Bishenyi, Runda sector, Kamonyi district. Photo by Willy Mucyo

Glaucoma: How is Rwanda combating the “silent thief of vision?”

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Kirehe District authorities are collaborating with Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) to ensure necessary preventive protocols are in place.

Kirehe mayor ‘raising awareness’ after suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

A pharmacist looks for drugs at Kisimenti in Kigali.Photo by Craish Bahizi

A look at the evolving nature of anti-malarial drugs in Rwanda

Monday, January 13, 2025

Since 2020, Rwanda has distributed pyrethroid-PBO and G2 insecticide-treated bed nets to combat mosquito resistance. Craish Bahizi

Seven key things Rwanda is doing to combat malaria surge

Saturday, January 11, 2025