The success of Rwanda in providing health care to its poor has drawn the attention of the international community and has inspired a new program at Harvard University.
Rwanda was one of the poorest countries in the world in 1994, after a genocide claimed more than 500,000 lives and left the country with little or no access to medical services. In the late 1990s, it began to rebuild its infrastructure. Now, according to the Rwandan Ministry of Health , the country provides health care and insurance to more than 90 percent of its population, inspiring medical leaders from around the globe to visit the African country to study its transformation.
Now, the Harvard Medical School is working with the Rwandan Ministry of Health to teach a course called Global Health Delivery in the village of Rwinkwavu twice a year.
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African countries have been asked to commit substantial amounts of their budgets to finance hygiene and sanitation projects. Rwanda president Paul Kagame challenged his colleagues across the continent to stop relying on donor aid to fund this. He spoke as the Africasan three conferences came to a close.
