PBS NewsHour: Rwanda Rebuilds After Genocide with Focus on Community Health Care

International aid groups were initially wary about getting involved, but Rwanda took ownership of its own development and built a new health care system. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro explores how they’ve worked to overcome a shortage of doctors.

Since 1994, Rwanda has made progress in reducing extreme poverty. Health care has gotten special attention, with the help of a Boston-based organization.

Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro has that story, part of his Agents for Change series.

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