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A baby in Rwanda rests in the hospital neonatal ward.

Child health and HIV/AIDS

UNICEF strives to keep every child in Rwanda alive, healthy, and free from HIV and AIDS.

People posing for a group photo

10 November 2023

Rwanda Biomedical Centre and UNICEF continue their strong commitment to supplying health facilities with life-saving equipment for mothers and children

Mothers with their children

Breaking the Cycle: Unpacking suboptimal feeding practices

We unpack the suboptimal feeding practices in Rwandan households among pregnant/lactating women and young children

Rehema Kampire

28 February 2023

Born too soon: paving the way to survival of newborns

Thanks to financial support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals, UNICEF is working with the RPA and RCPCH to improve maternal and newborn survival rates in Rwanda

Group photo

CEO Forum members visit Girubuzima Health Post in Gicumbi

UNICEF is working with partners to galvanize leading private businesses to invest in child-friendly business practices at their respective areas of work.

Dr. Ariane Nina Ndayikeje, Head of Pediatrics and Neonatology Department at Kacyiru Hospital, performs a consultation

Improving survival and wellbeing of newborns in Rwanda

UNICEF is working with partners to reduce newborn mortality by improving the quality of maternal and newborn care in Rwanda

A nurse tends to prematurely-born baby at Gahini Hospital

25 September 2021

Perinatal Care Program Phase One completed successfully in Rwanda

With UNICEF support, in the past four years, medical staff in selected Rwandan hospitals have significantly improved perinatal care quality and advanced neonatal intensive care capacity

Mother practices kangaroo care with her newborn baby

21 September 2021

Kangaroo Mother Care is helping premature babies survive

Reducing newborn mortality rates, one hospital at a time in Rwanda

Mother holds her newborn twins

01 September 2021

Saving the lives of newborns through Perinatal Care

UNICEF is training Rwandan health care providers to better care for small and sick newborns.

World Breastfeeding week 2021

Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the occasion of World Breastfeeding Week

NEW YORK/GENEVA