The Washington Post: Paul Farmer’s Graph of the Year—Rwanda’s Plummeting Child Mortality Rate

2014 will mark the 20th year since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Over the past decade, the Rwandan health sector has linked an equity plan with a robust delivery system to achieve some of the steepest declines in premature mortality ever documented anywhere. The country’s child mortality rate—once the world’s highest—has fallen at a pace of 11.1% per year, and is now in line with the global average. There is much to celebrate, but perhaps even more to learn.

Visit The Washington Post to read the full article.

Programs

Please send donations to: Partners In Health, PO Box 996, Frederick, MD 21705-9942