Due to early logistical planning, Rwanda had the capacity to store 5 million doses before the vaccines arrived.
- Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity
A safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be developed in record time and may be approved for production, distribution and acceptance some time in 2021.
The most sustainable and cost-effective solution for protecting patients’ lives is to reduce the causes of human error. Health professionals must be adequately trained to reduce adverse outcomes.
With the dawn of colonialism, nursing and midwifery were formally established and, in many colonies, recognised as the first modern clinical profession on the African continent.
Removing social medicine from the education of medical students would be to their detriment - as well as their future patients.
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Rwanda has developed a strong, decentralised health system and addressed many of the major financial and geographic barriers people faced.
Rwanda’s government has taken concerted, deliberate steps over the past 25 years to build a strong health system.
Many health professionals leave Africa because they don’t know how to handle the non-clinical systemic problems.
Rwanda’s vaccination programme for girls against HPV, the most common sexually transmitted disease was a huge success, thanks to implementation science.
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