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The Ministry of Health (Kinyarwanda: Minisiteri y'Ubuzima, [1] French: Ministère de la Santé [2]) is a government ministry of Rwanda, headquartered in Kigali. [3] As of 4 October 2024, Dr Sabin Nsanzimana is the minister who was appointed as the new Minister of Health replacing Dr. Ngamije Daniel.
Life expectancy development in Rwanda. The quality of health in Rwanda has historically been very low, both before and immediately after the 1994 genocide. [1] In 1998, more than one in five children died before their fifth birthday, [2] often from malaria. [3] But in recent years Rwanda has seen improvement on a number of key health indicators.
Health insurance became mandatory for all individuals in 2008; [5] in 2010 over 90% of the population was covered. [6] In 2012, only about 4% were uninsured. [1]President Kagame made healthcare one of the priorities for the Vision 2020 development programme, [7] boosting spending on health care to 6.5% of the country's gross domestic product in 2013, [8] compared with 1.9% in 1996. [9]
Thereafter, he held other positions in the Ministry of Health and other Rwandan Health sectors in Rwanda. He was the Coordinator of the Project Implementation Unit from 2007 to 2017. Before he was appointed as the Minister of Health in February 2020, he was the Executive for Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases under the World Health ...
Agnes Binagwaho is a Rwandan Politician, pediatrician, co-founder and the former vice chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity (2017-2022). In 1996, she returned to Rwanda where she provided clinical care in the public sector as well as held many positions including the position of Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health of Rwanda from October 2008 until May 2011 and ...
Diane Gashumba is a Rwandan pediatrician, medical administrator, politician, diplomat and Rwandan Ambassador-designate to the Kingdom of Sweden since June 12, 2021. She served as Minister of Health in the cabinet of Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente. [1]
Health Builders worked in collaboration with the Rwandan Ministry of Health, UNICEF, and the GE Foundation, to implement RapidSMS ‒ a tool that uses mobile text messaging to track health metrics among pregnant women and children under the age of two ‒ in Rwanda. [5]
In 1985, the Rwandan Ministry of Health and the Red Cross established one of the first and most effective blood donor screening programs in Africa. [6] In 1986, Rwanda was the first country in the world to conduct and report on a nationally representative HIV/AIDS seroprevalence survey. [ 7 ]