Rwanda NGOs Forum on HIV/AIDS and H.P

RNGOF is a National Network of Local NGOs committed directly or indirectly to Fighting Against HIV/AIDS and Promoting Health in Rwanda. It was created in 1999

[IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety]

💜 Harm reduction is essential to an effective HIV response.

📲 Explore IAS resources on #HarmReduction, bringing together evidence, expert insights and practical tools to advance person-centred #HIV prevention, treatment and care, strengthen integrated services, inform policy and advocacy, and advance community-led responses:

https://t.co/cGr1S1kAtV

[Ministry of Education | Rwanda @Rwanda_Edu]

Umunsi Mpuzamahanga wa Mwarimu mwiza!

Iyo umunyeshuri asobanukiwe isomo ryamugoraga, agize ubutwari bwo kubaza ikibazo cyangwa yizeye ko hari icyo ashoboye, akenshi aba afite mwarimu wamubaye hafi, akamufasha gutera iyo ntambwe.

Uyu munsi, @Rwanda_Edu irabashimira abarimu. Turabashimira ubwitange n’urukundo mushyira mu kazi kanyu, mufasha abana b’u Rwanda kugira ubumenyi n’icyizere cyo kubaka ejo hazaza habo n’ahacu twese.

[Ministry of Education | Rwanda @Rwanda_Edu]

Happy International Teacher’s Day!

Behind every learner who finally understands a difficult lesson, finds the courage to ask a question, or begins to believe in what they can achieve, there is often a teacher who made the difference.

Today, @Rwanda_Edu celebrates you. Thank you for your patience, dedication and for helping Rwanda’s children build the knowledge, skills and confidence to shape their own future—and ours.

[Rwanda NGOs Forum on HIV/AIDS and H.P @RwandaNGOForum]

@RwandaHealth @CombatNTDs @NTD_NGOs @UHAS_NTD @COR_NTD @WHORwanda @AfricaCDC @BSIRwanda #NNN2026
#BeatNTDs
#EndNTDs

[Rwanda NGOs Forum on HIV/AIDS and H.P @RwandaNGOForum]

This week at the #NNN2026 conference in Kigali, themed “People, Systems & Resilience: Adapting NTD Responses Through Holistic Approaches,” @RwandaNGOForum joined fellow NTD partners for a workshop, “Local Champions, Lasting Impact: Building Capacity for Equitable and Sustainable NTD Solutions.”

We presented our work with the Rwanda Malaria & NTDs Youth Corps @MalariaNTDcorps in @BugeseraDistr and @RuhangoDistrict . Through a formal structure co-supported by @TheENDFund and ALMA and also working closely with @RBCRwanda and district leaders, young people are moving from beneficiaries to active implementers of NTD prevention. They lead community education, support mass drug administration and work alongside community health workers, opinion leaders and WASH structures to drive social and behaviour change.

Together with partners from Ethiopia, Kenya and Zimbabwe, we explored approaches to reaching groups that are often left behind,including fishermen, marshland farmers, rural women, people with disabilities and out-of-school children.

Our key takeaway: lasting impact is built when local champions own the work and NTD action is embedded in district plans and supported by sustainable domestic financing.

#BeatNTDs #EndNTDs

[Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases @CombatNTDs]

12 workshops. 21 Rapid Fire talks. 4 sub-themes. 3 days in Kigali. Here's a first look at what's on the #NNN2026 programme 👇 https://t.co/UnnaRECtl1

[Bilharzia Storytelling Initiative @BSIRwanda]

Our team is attending #NNN in Kigali to discuss progress, persistent challenges, and how NTD programmes need to evolve.

#BeatNTDs #NTDFreeGen

[Kabanyana Nooliet (Nounou) @Knooliet]

Powerful insights and informative discussion at #UNGA81! World leaders should always be reminded how community-led responses and ending inequalities are essential towards access to Quality Healthcare Services. And how technology cost lives of People living with HIV, at high risk and or impacted by the disease. 👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽 Again, Pandemic preparedness must go broader than health. Lessons from HIV response is the best way to go! Thank you @UNAIDS #HealthForAll @nsanzimanasabin @RwandaHealth @AndrewGasoziNtw @BrianChirombo @WHORwanda @UNFPARwanda @EF_LINITIATIVE @unicefrw @PMudakikwa @RwandaNGOForum @ImroRwanda @Sfrwanda1 @asdo_rwanda @rani_action @IOMRwanda @mukacresce1 @CsdiCommunity @RBCRwanda @CMuvunyi @JNdayizigiye @ViiVHC @aggrealuso @GFAN_Africa @Rwanda_CCM @TuyishimeAlbert @DMbituyumuremyi @ikuzo_basile @GlobalFund

[Louis Grignon @Loui_Ngabonzima]

#Rwanda has built one of the strongest #HIV responses on the continent and globe at large.

Sustaining it, however, especially as external funding shifts, means putting those most at tisk, living with and affected at the centre of the response and ensuring they lead the way. They should be the architects of the response, not its beneficiaries, and this is demonstrated in #practice, not in #papers.

With support from @UNAIDSRwanda, we at @RwandaNGOForum have been working to bring this to life. Communities themselves document their experiences of availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of services. Those findings then go back to decision-makers as data/insights they cannot ignore.

Special thanks to @UNAIDSRwanda for backing community-led monitoring. The work continues, and it belongs to the communities who make it possible.#LetCommunityLead #HealthEquity #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #GenderEquality #AnythingForUsWithoutUsIsAgainstUs
@UNAIDS @RichardAmenyah @AndrewGasoziNtw @Knooliet @RwandaHealth @RBCRwanda @RwandaGender @GlobalFund @UNFPARwanda @WHORwanda @unwomenrwanda @unicefrw @expertisefrance @GFAN_Africa @rrpplus @uphls @ABASIRWA2 @InterfaithRda @HDIRwanda @ImroRwanda @Sfrwanda1

[Eric Niyongira, MD @EricNiyongira1]

HIV progress is measured in percentages, but it's lived by people. To end AIDS by 2030, we need to hear from those still facing stigma and barriers to care. Community-led monitoring does exactly that.
#LetCommunityLead #EndAIDS2030 #KeyPopulations

[Rwanda NGOs Forum on HIV/AIDS and H.P @RwandaNGOForum]

Safe abortion is healthcare. Every woman and girl deserves access to accurate information, quality services and compassionate carefree from stigma, discrimination and unnecessary barriers.

On this #InternationalSafeAbortionDay, let us continue advancing access, accountability, dignity and informed choice in reproductive healthcare. No one should be left behind when seeking the care they need.

Let’s build a future where abortion care is accessible, respectful and responsive to the realities of every woman and girl and let us remember that abortion is not only about access to services; it is about ensuring that people can make informed decisions about their bodies and future with dignity.

#SafeAbortionRw
#ReproductiveHealth
#AccessIsARightRw

[ASDO-Rwanda @asdo_rwanda]

INTERNATIONAL SAFE ABORTION DAY 2026

Abortion care should be:
➡️SAFE
➡️TIMELY
➡️ACCESSIBLE
➡️AFFORDABLE
➡️CONFIDENTIAL
➡️RESPECTFUL
➡️STIGMA-FREE

Because #Abortion is Healthcare .
@GlobalFundWomen
@awdf01

[HDI Rwanda @HDIRwanda]

Twibukiranye:

Ese gukuramo inda mu Rwanda ni icyaha? Ese ni nde wemerewe gukurirwamo inda mu Rwanda?

Ni ibihe byiciro amategeko yemerera umuntu gukuramo inda? Bikorerwa he?

Ku munsi mpuzamahanga wahariwe gukuramo inda byemewe n’amategeko, #InternationalSafeAbortionDay, muganga @Niyomugabojea19 aradusobanura uko bigenda.

Ku bindi bisobanuro, hamagara 3530.
#ISA2026 #September28 #SafeAbortion #SRHR

[HDI Rwanda @HDIRwanda]

Today, 28 September, we mark #InternationalSafeAbortionDay, a day that highlights the need for accessible, legal and safe abortion care.

As part of the observance, join us tomorrow, 29 September, 14:00–16:00 CAT, for an online webinar exploring "Financial Costs and Access Barriers to Safe Abortion Care in Rwanda."

Register here: https://t.co/ONAmEzwcl2
#September28 #SafeAbortion #AbortionAccess #SRHR #AdvancingHealthRights

[Rwanda Biomedical Centre @RBCRwanda]

Uyu munsi, Ikigo Gishinzwe Ubuzima mu Rwanda (RBC) n'abafatanyabikorwa mu kwita ku buzima bukomatanyije, bifatanyije n'abaturage bo mu murenge wa Kinigi muri @MusanzeDistrict kwizihiza Umunsi mpuzamahanga wo kurwanya indwara y'ibisazi by'imbwa.

Bimwe mu bikorwa byahabereye birimo kubarura imbwa zahazanwe, kuzikona ku mbwa z'ingabo, gukuramo nyababyeyi ku mbwakazi no kuzikingira.
Ni mu rwego rwo kurwanya kurumwa n'imbwa n' indwara y'ibisazi by'imbwa ndetse n'izindi ndwara zihererekanwa hagati y'abantu n'inyamaswa mu bice bituriye Parike y'Igihugu y'ibirunga.

#TurandureIbisaziByimbwa
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Today, Rwanda Biomedical Centre, in collaboration with One Health partners, joined residents of Kinigi in Musanze District to mark World Rabies Day and raise awareness about preventing rabies and other zoonotic diseases.
As part of ongoing efforts around Volcanoes National Park, residents brought their dogs for registration, vaccination, and sterilization.
These actions help prevent dog bites, reduce the risk of rabies transmission, and protect both people and animals.
#OneHealth
#StrongerTogether
#WorldRabiesDay2026

[Rwanda Malaria and NTDs Youth Corps @MalariaNTDcorps]

Rabies is almost always fatal once symptoms appear, but it is 100% preventable.

Wash bites immediately with soap and water, seek prompt medical care and vaccinate dogs annually to achieve zero human deaths by 2030.
#WorldRabiesDay2026
@BrianChirombo @nsanzimanasabin @Knooliet

[Bilharzia Storytelling Initiative @BSIRwanda]

Today, the world celebrates #WorldRabiesDay2026!

The most effective way to stop rabies is at its source: get your dogs and cats vaccinated on time.

Protect your pets, protect your family!

#VaccinateToProtect #OneHealth

[Kabanyana Nooliet (Nounou) @Knooliet]

🇷🇼’s progress towards the 96-98-98 HIV targets is a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved through strong political leadership, community engagement, science, partnership, and coordinated national actions. This progress would not have been possible without sustained investment in the national HIV response and the meaningful engagement of communities and community-led organizations.

Community-led organizations have been and remain the backbone of 🇷🇼’s #HIV, #TB and #Malaria response. They bring services closer to people, particularly vulnerable and high risk populations; strengthen linkages to prevention, testing, treatment and care; advocate for human rights, fight stigma and discrimination; and generate community-level evidence that helps decision-makers identify gaps and improve the quality and responsiveness of the HIV, TB and Malaria response.

Importantly, 🇷🇼's communities have demonstrated strong resilience despite a rapidly changing and increasingly constrained international funding landscape. However, resilience should not be interpreted as an alternative to sustainable financing.

⏩⏩ If we are serious about ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, we must sustain the systems that enable communities to remain active, informed and connected to the health response.

This is where Community-Led Monitoring (CLM), particularly 🇷🇼’s integrated CLM model and System (#iCLM), is strategically important. It provides a people-centred mechanism for communities to systematically collect, analyze and use real-time evidence on the Accessibility, Availability, Acceptance, Quality, and Responsiveness of health services.
⏩⏩ By connecting community experiences with facility level performance and national decision-making, #iCLM strengthens accountability and enables evidence-based course correction.

So, it is high time to build on this opportunity for iCLM platform by integrating HIV, TB and Malaria with other health priorities, including #NTDs #SRHR #NCDs, #MentalHealth, #Climate related health risks and Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention and Response (#PPPR).
⏩⏩ Such integration will reduce fragmentation, strengthen community surveillance and feedback mechanisms, improve the use of resources and establish a more resilient community health information architecture.

Key Note:

The science and the tools are available. What is needed now is:
✅ Sustained solidarity, predictable financing and strong community systems to translate evidence and innovation into lasting health outcomes
#LetCommunityLead #HealthForAll #EndAIDS2030 #HealthyAdolescentRw #HealthEquity

@RwandaHealth @RBCRwanda @nsanzimanasabin @JNdayizigiye @Rwanda_CCM @CMuvunyi @TuyishimeAlbert @DMbituyumuremyi @BrianChirombo @WHORwanda @AndrewGasoziNtw @RichardAmenyah @Winnie_Byanyima @UNAIDS_ESA @ITPCglobal @TheENDFund @EugeneRuberanz2 @BGakire @RwandaLocalGov @GlobalFund @unicefrw @LiekevandeWiel @PMudakikwa @Sfrwanda1 @FXBRwanda @ImroRwanda @medsar_rwanda @edrwagasore @ikuzo_basile @CsdiCommunity @ASOFERWA2 @ABA_Rwanda @unwomenrwanda @UNFPARwanda @expertisefrance @rani_action @eannaso @AHFcares @ahfrwanda @rangira_lambert @EUinRW @UKinRwanda @SwedeninRW @Louisalejandro @WB_Rwanda @WACIHealth @Itairusike @HFFG_Ghana @CS4MEglobal @ALMA_2030

[Rwanda NGOs Forum on HIV/AIDS and H.P @RwandaNGOForum]

HAPPY WORLD CONTRACEPTION DAY 2026

Contraceptive access is about more than preventing unintended pregnancies. It is about giving people the ability to plan their lives, pursue their aspirations and make decisions about their futures.

When barriers to contraception remain, so does the gap between having a right and being able to exercise it.

This #WorldContraceptionDay , let’s move from availability to accessibility, from policy to implementation, and from information to meaningful choice.

#SRHIsARightRw
#WCD2026Rw
#WorldContraceptionDay2026

[ASDO-Rwanda @asdo_rwanda]

WORLD CONTRACEPTION DAY

On this World Contraception Day, every woman and girl deserves:
📍Accurate information.
📍Contraceptive options.
📍Quality services.
📍Freedom from coercion.
📍Respect for their choices.

Hence, a world where every pregnancy is desired.

@GlobalFundWomen