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Report
22 February 2024
Health, Nutrition and Early Childhood Development in Rwanda
Introduction Children’s right to survival and development is recognized in Article 6 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) translate these obligations into several specific targets across several goals, including SDG 2, Zero Hunger, and SDG 3, Good Health and Well-being. In the last 25 years, Rwanda has made significant strides in reducing maternal and child mortality and enhancing child health, nu...
Article
22 December 2023
Devoted Community Health Workers Fight Polio Vaccine Misinformation
Amid relentless walks across steep hills, enduring rain, and covering extensive distances, tireless Community Health Workers (CHWs) diligently visited households, ensuring every child within the targeted age group received the vital polio vaccine drop. These CHWs initiated a heartening ritual of exchanging hugs an...
Press release
10 November 2023
Rwanda Biomedical Centre and UNICEF continue their strong commitment to supplying health facilities with life-saving equipment for mothers and children
KIGALI, 10 November 2023 – As part of an ongoing partnership, the Rwanda Biomedical Centre received life-saving supplies and equipment for maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition services worth US$ 5 million from UNICEF. Eighty (80) Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machines worth nearly US$300,0...
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05 April 2023
Breaking the Cycle: Understanding the Roots of Suboptimal Feeding Practices in Rwanda
In Gakenke District, mothers assemble for a monthly participatory community dialogue on healthy child feeding, and caring practices. Community nutrition groups like this one are organized and led by Elisabethe Uwimana, a 50-year-old lead community health worker in Nemba Sector. Parents come at these events to ha...
Article
28 February 2023
Born too soon: paving the way to survival of newborns
14 June 2022 is a date that will forever be etched in the memory of Rehema Kampire, a resident of Rubavu district in Western Rwanda. It’s the day her baby daughter was prematurely ushered into this world, much to her trepidation and anxiety. “I experienced birth pangs and was rushed to a nearby clinic, but the m...
Article
25 July 2022
Seeing is believing – CEO Forum members visit SGHP in Gicumbi
Members of the recently launched "CEO Council for Children" yesterday visited Gira Ubuzima Health Post in Gishambashayo, Gicumbi District, in Northern Rwanda. The group featured representatives of private companies in Rwanda from various industries including Crystal Ventuers LTD, Sanlam, Cogebanque, Ngali Holdin...
Article
23 March 2022
Improving survival and wellbeing of newborns in Rwanda
“As a midwife or nurse, you have to be artistic and precise in everything you do,” says Sophia Nyame, a Ghanaian nurse, while working at Kacyiru Hospital in Rwanda's capital, Kigali. “This is important because it helps reassure the patient that they are in good hands, and they will be taken care of, whatever the i...
Press release
25 September 2021
Perinatal Care Program Phase One completed successfully in Rwanda
Kigali, 26 September 2021. With the funding received from Takeda’s Global CSR Program, UNICEF, in partnership with the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and the Rwanda Pediatrics Association (RPA), has made great strides in improving quality health services through the completion of phase one of...
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21 September 2021
Kangaroo Mother Care is helping premature babies survive and thrive in Rwanda
Sitting on her bed talking to other mothers, Evelyne Nyirazirere holds her baby against her chest using the Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) method the nurses showed her. Evelyne shares a soft smile with the mothers as she knows her baby is doing well from all the great care provided by the medical staff at Gahini Hospi...
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01 September 2021
Saving the lives of newborns through Perinatal Care improvements at the Gahini Hospital in Rwanda
Every morning, Nurse Jacqueline Mukawiringiye makes her rounds checking on the babies currently in the incubators at the neonatal unit in Gahini Hospital. Since 2019, Nurse Jacqueline has been part of the Perinatal Improvement Program at Gahini Hospital and says she has seen a significant improvement in her work. ...
Statement
02 August 2021
Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the occasion of World Breastfeeding Week
At the start of this year, governments, donors, civil society and the private sector united to launch the Nutrition for Growth Year of Action . The Year of Action is a historic opportunity to transform the way the world tackles the global commitment to eliminate child malnutrition. “Breastfeeding is central to rea...
Press release
27 October 2020
UNICEF procures $1 million in essential medical equipment for newborn health and the fight against COVID-19 in Rwanda
KIGALI, RWANDA – Although Rwanda has made tremendous progress improving child survival in the last few decades, the rate of death is still high among children in the first 28 days of life. In Rwanda, over 40 per cent of deaths among children under 5 occur during this neonatal period. To support the Government of R...
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