WORLD AMR AWARENESS WEEK 2025 From 18–24 November 2025, Rwanda marked World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW) under the global theme “Act Now: Protect Our Present, Secure Our Future.” The national campaign was led by the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC)…
Expanding Access to Safe Abortion Care in Rwanda: The IKAZE Telehealth Platform Unsafe abortions remain a significant global health challenge. According to the World Health Organization, 22 million abortions are performed unsafely each year, leading to approximately 47,000 deaths. In…
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a major global health challenge that threatens modern medicine. Resistant infections lead to longer hospital stays, increased medical costs, and higher mortality rates. In 2019, approximately 1.27 million deaths were directly linked to drug-resistant infections, and…
Collaboratively together with Healthinnovation Toolbox, we are on a HIT LABS 10,000 mission — a transformative program dedicated to empowering 10,000 healthcare leaders across Africa with essential digital health knowledge and skills. In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the integration of technology…
Be Part of World AMR Awareness Week! Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) stands as one of the most pressing global health challenges of our time. In 2019 alone, bacterial AMR was directly responsible for approximately 1.27 million deaths worldwide and contributed to…
Color, Learn & Celebrate! A Magical Christmas in Rango, Bugesera District This 2025 Christmas, the village of Rango sparkled with laughter, joy, and a splash of creativity! Over 250 children gathered for a special celebration hosted by Rango Library, in…
An interactive breast cancer patients’ education toolkit.
WORLD AMR AWARENES WEEK – 2023 Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer respond to antimicrobial agents. As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents become ineffective and infections become difficult or…
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) happens when microorganisms change overtime and no longer respond to medicine that were previously designed to kill them. AMR is now the leading cause of deaths globally where in 2019, more than 1 million deaths were attributed…
WHO has listed Antimicrobial Resistance among the top 10 global health threats facing humanity. Based on recent evidences in the year 2019, approximately 1.27 million deaths were directly linked to infections with resistance to drugs on a worldwide scale. By the…
World AMR Awareness Week Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is among the top ten threats facing humanity and human activities are the major drivers of this process. The quadripartite – the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the…
Rwanda Demographic health survey 2019/2020 shows that the unmet need for Family planning is highest in Kigali and the West province (16% each). SAYANA Press has been introduced in Rwanda as a new method of family planning with a facility-based…
Background Antimicrobial resistance, (AMR) which includes antibiotic resistance, is not a commonly crossed topic in Rwanda, despite being a crucial topic which concerns keeping antibiotics working whenever needed. Together with the University of Manchester, we organized the 30 Days of…
