{"id":217,"date":"2011-05-20T13:39:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T13:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandan-envoy-discusses-country-s-health-progress\/"},"modified":"2011-05-20T13:39:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T13:39:33","slug":"rwandan-envoy-discusses-country-s-health-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandan-envoy-discusses-country-s-health-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan envoy discusses country\u2019s health progress at WHO meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rwanda\u2019s Ambassador to Paris, Jacques Kabale<\/span> yesterday delivered a key note speech on the country\u2019s health progress at the 64th World Health Organisation<\/span> (WHO) summit currently taking place in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In his speech, Kabale<\/span> said that despite Rwanda\u2019s history which saw many professionals and structures destroyed, the country has achieved tremendous progress in the health sector.<\/p>\n

These include the introduction of health community workers program, the expansion of the community health insurance (mutuelles<\/span> de sant\u00e9<\/span>), and increasing maternal health services to the entire population.<\/p>\n

According to his speech, the health insurance promoted Rwanda\u2019s health from a lowest coverage of 3 percent in 2002 to 92 percent in 2010.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Kabale<\/span> added that under the committed leadership of the government of Rwanda,
the nation has geared progress in maternal and child health as well as in non communicable diseases has been attained.<\/p>\n

As regards Rwanda\u2019s health progress in the developing world, the official said that the decentralsation<\/span> policy which is being implemented in Rwanda\u2019s community has significantly promoted the ownership and effective participation of the population in decision making which has enabled efficient use of funds and increased service demand.<\/p>\n

Rwanda\u2019s Ambassador in Paris also said that the government has put emphasis on the integration of maternal and child health with other health services such as immunisation<\/span> services, family planning, nutrition and HIV \/ AIDS care.<\/p>\n

Kabale<\/span> also pointed out that Rwanda since November 2010, provides ARV<\/span> triple therapy prophylaxis to all HIV-infected pregnant women starting at 14 weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Further, the summit\u2019s theme which focuses on combating non communicable diseases, Kabale<\/span> also said that Rwanda has taken a major step of vaccinating girls aged 10 to 14 years against HPV<\/span>, the virus that
causes cervical cancer.<\/p>\n

 \u201cIt is also planned that from September 2011, Rwanda will conduct the cervical cancer screening in all women aged 35-45 years,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Part of the summit health officials from Rwanda are ; Coordinator of Maternal and Child health Dr Fidele<\/span> Ngabo<\/span>, Dr Jean Pierre Nyemazi<\/span> from the Ministry of Health and Alphonse Kayitare<\/span> from the
Embassy of Rwanda in Geneva-Switzerland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rwanda\u2019s Ambassador to Paris, Jacques Kabale yesterday delivered a key note speech on the country\u2019s health progress at the 64th World Health Organisation (WHO) summit currently taking place in Geneva, Switzerland. In his speech, Kabale said that despite Rwanda\u2019s history which saw many professionals and structures destroyed, the country has achieved tremendous progress in the health […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"byline":[278],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","byline-joram-muhoozi"],"bylines":[{"id":278,"name":"Joram Muhoozi","slug":"joram-muhoozi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":278,"name":"Joram Muhoozi","slug":"joram-muhoozi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}