Rwanda's Health Sector Progress Since Genocide Provides Hope for Nation's FutureApril 4, 2014 The Lancet features a public health paper and an editorial on Rwanda's health sector progress since the genocide 20 years ago. The Lancet: Rwanda 20 years on: investing in life Agnes Binagwaho, Rwanda's minister of health, Paul Farmer of Harvard Medical School, et al. The Lancet: Rwanda: looking to the future "Two decades ago, Rwanda lay in ruins following the brutal genocide against the Tutsis. The scars of the massacre seemed too deep to heal for some observers at the time. But, in what has been described as the Rwanda miracle, the country turned its situation around. ... Several factors were crucial to the country's success including governmental leadership, a national development plan that championed health equity, a constitution that formalized the right to health, a community-based national health insurance system, training of community health workers, increases in foreign and domestic spending on health, and successful collaboration with international development partners. ... Rwanda has achieved great successes and can look forward, thanks to remarkable leadership, to continued rewards for the health of its people -- its respect for democracy, human rights, and regional stability will be crucial to its future" (4/5). Back to other news for April 2014
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