Since 2012, a Partners In Health-supported public hospital in northern Rwanda has treated thousands of patients for breast cancer, lymphomas, and more. But even Butaro Hospital has struggled to treat late-stage cancers and other conditions needing radiation therapy. Like many developing countries, Rwanda lacks a $4 million radiation therapy machine. Read more…
The demands of family and farm leave little time to worry about it. And anyway, it’s probably just from breastfeeding. But after a couple of weeks, the 35-year-old mother walks over to chat with her neighbor, a community health worker, about the hard little knot near her armpit. Concerned, the Read more…
When did you start working with Partners In Health? I started working with Partners In Health (PIH) in 2005. Before that, I was working as a math teacher in primary school. What exactly is your role as a CHW? Part of my role is to encourage women to be part Read more…
Listen as Ophelia Dahl, chair of Partners In Health’s board and former executive director, tells the story of PIH’s involvement in Rwanda and some of its successes over the last decade. PIH and its sister organization, Inshuti Mu Buzima, work in partnership with Rwanda’s Ministry of Health.
Cecille Joan Avila / Partners In Health A view from the road to Rusasa Health Center in Butaro sector, Rwanda, in February. Rwanda has long been a front-runner in the race to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, those eight benchmarks in health, education, and other areas that United Nations member Read more…
Pictured: Maria Kaitesi/Partners In Health Janet Kayitesi, caretaker for baby Diane Uwamahoro, plays with the child as part of the Pediatric Development Clinic run by the Rwandan Ministry of Health and PIH/IMB. Photo: Maria Kaitesi/Partners In Health Infant survival has steadily improved in Rwanda over the past decades. But mere Read more…
Gedeon Ngoga, 34, is a noncommunicable diseases program manager at Partners In Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima. I always wanted to become a nurse. As a child, I didn’t know the difference between nurses and doctors — all I knew is that the people in white coats had the power to help Read more…