{"id":38114,"date":"2018-09-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-recognized-for-leading-cancer-control-in\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T14:40:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T14:40:39","slug":"rwanda-recognized-for-leading-cancer-control-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-recognized-for-leading-cancer-control-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda recognized for leading cancer control in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Global Health Catalyst Summit 2018 held August 30-31 in Germany, Rwanda was voted the African cancer control champion and healthcare role model.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis award to Rwanda is the recognition of President Paul Kagame leadership that cares about its people and a community that trusts its leaders. This explains the exciting successful journey towards health for all in Rwanda,\u201d said Health Minister Dr Diane on her Twitter account on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>She said that Rwanda also signed collaboration agreements with University of Heidelberg from Germany and University of Pennsylvania from the US.<\/p>\n<p>She said the collaboration is a boost to the ongoing effort in cancer management in Rwanda and will help the country cover the existing gaps. <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda has put in place different mechanisms aimed at fighting cancer among its population.<\/p>\n<p>These include free vaccination for uterus cancer among young girls, free cancer testing for everyone which helps in timely treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The county also opened specialised cancer hospital in Butaro, Burera District in 2012. The hospital had treated 5,700 people by 2016, according to the Ministry of Health. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27029 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/minisitiri_w3997-f4949.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27028 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dl7tiptwsaazdfe1-49aff.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda has been recognised as the leading country in Africa to demonstrate consistent and efficient follow-up on cancer control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38114","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38114"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38114"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}