Rwanda - Inshuti Mu Buzima
Inshuti Mu Buzima (“Partners In Health” in the Rwandan national language, Kinyarwanda) is the first PIH project in Africa. PIH's intervention in Rwanda consciously replicates the model that has proven successful in central Haiti.
News
Thousands of patients served during Butaro Hospital's first year. Facility shows health care can be provided at a world-class level, even in poor, remote communities.
While 45% of children in Rwanda are chronically malnourished, PIH’s program is making small strides.
In Haiti and Rwanda, our Pagenel Fellows care for those in need, train future health workers.
New initiative provides tutoring to primary school students in rural Rwanda.
Million Moms Challenge highlights PIH’s work across the globe.
Recent trainings give health workers new tools to bring family planning services to their communities.
In Rwanda, an orphan suffering from mental illness receives a new family.
How Rwanda is focusing on a national family planning strategy — and why other countries should take note.
"To be short: fee-based health care is inequitable. If we were to remove these fees, 233,000 children in 20 African countries would be saved from preventable deaths this year.”
PIH’s work with orphaned and vulnerable children in Malawi, Rwanda, and Lesotho.
Blog
The Women and Girls Initiative Scholarship Program sends 41 young women and girls back to school in rural Rwanda. Read More »
Recent trainings give health workers new tools to bring family planning services to their communities. Read More »
In 2011, thousands of children received new TOMS shoes. Plans for 2012 shoe distributions in the works. Read More »
In Rwanda, PIH helps a young genocide survivor overcome poverty and his past. Read More »
Program initiated by PIH’s Sara Stulac is credited for improving outcomes for children with lymphoma. Read More »
In November, PIH staff distributed new TOMS Shoes to thousands of school children in Rwanda’s southern Kayonza and Kirehe Districts. Read More »
In a Washington Post op-ed, PIH co-founder Paul Farmer describes "how we can save millions of lives." Read More »
GHDonline hosts an online expert panel discussion from November 7 to 11. Read More »
BBC News features PIH-supported facility in two segments on "The Health Show". Read More »
A young mother living with HIV needs more than just medicine to heal. Read More »
Research Articles
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in urban Rwanda: a case series of highly resistant tuberculosis ***
Publication date: 01/01/06
by Furin JJ, Mitnick CD, Mukherjee J, Sloutsky A, Epino H, Stulac S, Drobac P, Farmer PE, Rich ML
East African Medical Journal. 2006.
Manuals
Publication date: 06/01/06
by Partners In Health; Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Harvard Medical School; Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital; François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health (2006)
Essays
Publication date: 10/23/06
by Farmer PE, Nizeye B, Stulac S, Keshavjee S
PLoS Medicine. 2006;3(10):e449
Books
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Multimedia
Children’s health and malnutrition
