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"The people of Rwanda have been tested by tragedy. Nearly thirty years ago,
when ethnic Hutu extremists sought to exterminate the country’s Tutsi minority,
more than one million lives were lost. The violence strained the nation’s
fragile health-care system, which was already inaccessible to rural residents,
who made up 83 percent of the population.
When the COVID-19 struck, it encountered a decidedly different health-care
system. Although Rwanda reported more than 33,194 cumulative cases and 1,468
deaths, it also weathered the pandemic uniquely well. The country was prepared
to allocate vaccines by region as soon as donations from China and the United
States began arriving in March 2021. Within two years, 82 percent of the
population had received at least one dose, far outshining neighboring countries
like Tanzania (52 percent), Uganda (41 percent), the Democratic Republic of
Congo (10 percent), and Burundi (0.26 percent). Rwanda’s ability to bring
everyone in the Ministry of Health and partner institutions together to track
vaccination rates, reach communities most at risk, and dispel misinformation
helped the nation become a world leader in the vaccine rollout.
What did Rwanda change between the genocide and the pandemic to improve its
health-care accessibility, and what lessons can other low-income countries
adopt to strengthen their own health-care systems? Three developments stand
out: low-cost community-based health insurance plans, national investments in
rural health posts, and ramped-up foreign collaborations."
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
