Public Health Students' Alumni Network

This is an official twitter account of Public Health Students' Alumni Network (AMN) @urphsamn_rwanda

[UNFPA East and Southern Africa @UNFPA_ESARO]

Having choices = healthcare + bodily autonomy. When someone gets to decide if & when to start a family, entire futures open up. That's why @UNFPA works to make sure rights, access, and care reach every community, especially young people.

#WorldContraceptionDay #BodilyAutonomy

[Ministry of Health | Rwanda @RwandaHealth]

Incamake y'umuganda rusange usoza ukwezi kwa nzeri.

Ku rwego rw’Umujyi wa Kigali, wakorewe Rugende mu Murenge wa Rusororo; AKarere ka Gasabo.

​Minisitiri Dr. Nsanzimana yasabye urubyiruko gusoza umwaka rufite ubuzima bwiza buzira ubusinzi n'ibiyobyabwenge.

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

Putting Communities First: Transforming HIV and SRHR Through Partnership in Rwanda

Rwanda’s HIV response is a global reference point, having reached remarkable milestones with adult targets now standing at 96-98-98. However, national averages can sometimes hide the people the system still misses.

In this compelling article, we highlight the impactful power of collaboration and partnership between the @RwandaNGOForum and @UNAIDSRwanda in putting key and priority populations, including FSW, MSM, transgender people, PWID/PWUD, people with disabilities, and AGYW, at the center of the HIV and SRHR response through Community-Led Monitoring (CLM), data-driven advocacy, and policy transformation.

Read the full article here: https://t.co/Lx4IsHu3ot

How can we better leverage community-led monitoring (CLM) and SRHR initiatives to reach the last mile and ensure no one is left behind in our health responses? Share your thoughts in the comments below and keep the conversation going.

#LetCommunityLead #EndAIDS2030 #KeyPopulations #HealthyAdolescentRw #HealthEquity

@RwandaHealth @RBCRwanda @nsanzimanasabin @JNdayizigiye @UNAIDS @WHORwanda @BrianChirombo @CMuvunyi @UNAIDS_ESA @RichardAmenyah @AndrewGasoziNtw @Knooliet @J_Umuhire @HDIRwanda @ImroRwanda @Sfrwanda1 @FXBRwanda @TuyishimeAlbert @Rwanda_CCM @mwanaimable @DMbituyumuremyi @aflodiskagaba

[Ministry of Health | Rwanda @RwandaHealth]

On the margins of #UNGA81 Minister of State @YvanButera met with HE Ahmed bin Ali Al Sayegh, UAE Minister of Health and Prevention, to discuss strengthening health cooperation between Rwanda and the UAE, including health surveillance, bioinformatics, health workforce development and manufacturing of health products.

[World Food Programme @WFP]

One month after deadly floods in #Nepal, WFP continues to provide a lifeline for families facing displacement, lost livelihoods and damaged farmland.

By road, helicopter and cargo drone, we're delivering food assistance to the hardest-to-reach communities.

🔗 https://t.co/hVICcy4WyB

[Ministry of Health | Rwanda @RwandaHealth]

At the margins of #UNGA81, Rwanda, Armenia and @Pandemic_Fund brought together global health leaders for a conversation guided by @ForeignPolicy.

Minister of State @YvanButera shared Rwanda’s experience, highlighting coordinated responses, action guided by science and data, community-centred approaches and sustained financing to strengthen preparedness and health-system resilience.

[Rwanda Biomedical Centre @RBCRwanda]

Today, RBC’s Health Science and Innovation Platform (SIP) looked at the malaria situation in #Rwanda, focusing on current trends, the recent malaria resurgence and its drivers, but also the ongoing national response to address the rise in malaria cases to protect gains.
Discussions showed that several factors contributing to malaria resurgence include mosquitoes becoming resistant to some insecticides, more mosquito breeding sites, changes in mosquito biting behavior, emerging anti-malaria drug resistance, population movement, climate change, and budget constraints to sustain evidence-based interventions.

Noting that malaria burden in Rwanda is not equally distributed across districts, the ongoing response consists of data-guided and tailored interventions.
To achieve the national goal and protect gains, there is a need for regular local surveillance, stronger community engagement, and timely response.

Closing the forum, DG @CMuvunyi stressed: “Data alone is not enough. We must turn timely, quality evidence into action” to strengthen malaria prevention, treatment, and mosquito control.

#ZeroMalariaStartsWithMe

[Dr Sabin Nsanzimana @nsanzimanasabin]

Turi gukora Umuganda @Gasabo_District
Turi #SoberGen 🇷🇼

[Caritas Rwanda @CaritasRwanda]

Today, at @KigaliMarriott, @CaritasRwanda joined PACT/ACHIEVE, @aeerwanda & @FXBRwanda for the ACHIEVE & IGIRE Implementing Partners Transition and Learning Event to celebrate achievements and strengthen commitments to sustain community HIV services under @RwandaGov leadership.

[IHI Rwanda @IHI_Rwanda]

On World Contraception Day 2026, we embrace No Barriers, Just Choices.

Everyone deserves accurate information and respectful access to contraception.

Let’s break barriers and support informed reproductive health choices.

#WorldContraceptionDay #NoBarriersJustChoices

[Public Health Students' Alumni Network @urphsamn_rwanda]

@urphsa @RBCRwanda @RPHA_Official @WFPHA_FMASP @WHORwanda @unicefrw @RwandaHealth @UCmhs @nsanzimanasabin #WCD2026 #PublicHealth

[UR Public Health Students' Association @urphsa]

Today is #WorldContraceptionDay!

The 2026 theme is "No Barriers, Just Choices."

Public health wins when everyone has equitable, stigma-free access to family planning & reproductive care.

Let's break down barriers & empower choices. 🩺

#WCD2026 #PublicHealth

[World Food Programme @WFP]

For the world's smallholder farmers, a lost harvest means:

❌ Less food ❌ Less income ❌ Greater vulnerability

As #ElNiño threatens to deepen hunger for millions, WFP and @FAO are working together to help families protect what they've worked all year to produce.

🔗https://t.co/GLujpMkIzd

[World Food Programme @WFP]

When food assistance is cut, families don't stop needing to eat. They are forced to eat less.

At Kyangwali refugee settlement in #Uganda:

🔴 7 in 10 households have reduced their daily meals.
🔴 Malnutrition among children under 5 has risen nearly 50% in one year.

Urgent, flexible and predictable funding is critical to protect lifesaving assistance for refugee families. #UNGA

[R.R.P+ @rrpplus]

From community voices to action.🇷🇼

Building on the progress made through the 2024 CLM cycle, supported by PEPFAR through @UNAIDS , RRP+ is now conducting the 2026 Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) data collection exercise from 22-24 September 2026, in collaboration with @RBCRwanda , with the support of @giz_rwanda through the Rights-Based Program (RBP).
A team of 15 Data Collectors and 4 Supervisors is working across four districts and seven health facilities: COR UNUM and Biryogo in @Nyarugenge ; Kicukiro and Gatenga in @KicukiroDistr ; Remera and Kinyinya in @Gasabo_District ; and Nyagasambu in @RwamaganaDistr

The teams are collecting information on people’s experiences with HIV services, including people living with HIV, young people, key populations and people living with disabilities, while also engaging health facility managers and observing the service delivery environment.

This year, the process is fully digital. Data Collectors are using REDCap to collect, review, validate and submit information electronically. Five CLM tools are being used: End User, Key Population, Adolescent and Young People, Observation, and Facility Manager tools.

The 2026 cycle is also strengthening digital data collection, data quality, confidentiality and evidence-based advocacy, helping turn community experiences into evidence that can support timely action.

The goal is: listen to communities, understand the challenges they face, generate reliable evidence and use that evidence to support better HIV services.

Our Voice. Our Evidence. Our Action.

#CLM #CommunityLedMonitoring #RRPPlus #RBC #GIZ #CommunityVoices #HealthAccountability

For assistance or concerns, call RRP+ Toll-Free: 1245.

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@giz_rwanda
@CDCgov
@CDCRwanda
@mutambukaDeo
@nsanzimanasabin
@JNdayizigiye
@CMuvunyi
@PaulineOkumu
@TuyishimeAlbert
@BrianChirombo
@andrewmorley0
@RichardAmenyah
@AndrewGasoziNtw
@aflodiskagaba
@HindHassan_
@BarhamSalih
@RituShroff3
@uphls
@InterfaithRda
@HopeandHomes
@RwandaYouthArts
@unicefrw
@Rwanda_CCM
@GlobalFund
@WHORwanda
@HDIRwanda
@UNAIDSRwanda
@ICAP_ColumbiaU
@WVRwanda
@UNAIDS
@UNFPARwanda
@dreamvillage6

[UN Women Rwanda @unwomenrwanda]

UN Women Rep. @MNizigama paid a courtesy visit to H.E. Amb. Henrik Nilsson of @SwedeninRW, expressing appreciation for Sweden’s longstanding partnership with @UN_Women. They explored opportunities to deepen collaboration towards catalytic action for #GenderEquality in #Rwanda.

[Rwanda Biomedical Centre @RBCRwanda]

Mu rwego rwo kurushaho gufasha abaturage baturiye Pariki y'Ibirunga kwirinda no gukumira indwara zihererekanwa hagati y’abantu n’inyamaswa, harimo indwara y’ibisazi by’imbwa, Ikigo Gishinzwe Ubuzima mu Rwanda (RBC) ku bufatanye n’abafatanyabikorwa bakora ku buzima bukomatanyije, bari gufasha abaturage kumva uruhare rwabo mu kurandura indwara y’ibisazi by’imbwa no kubana neza n’urundi rusobe rw’ibinyabuzima.

Mu gukumira indwara y’ibisazi by’imbwa,abaturage batunze imbwa basabwa:

✅Kwirinda kurumwa n'imbwa
✅Kwihutira kwivuza igihe imbwa yabarumye
✅Kubuza imbwa kuzerera,
✅Kwitabira gahunda yo kuzibaruza ku buyobozi bubegereye
✅Kuzikingiza buri mwaka
✅Kuzikonesha

#TurandureIbisaziByimbwa

[Strive Foundation Rwanda @Sfrwanda1]

🥕🌱Harvesting season is here! Amahoro women Cooperative farmers supported by #SFR & #HHN in @HuyeDistrict are bringing thr hard work to the harvest. With promising carrots & an-estimated 3–4 tonnes/ha,the season opens exciting opportunities at RWF 600/kg the current market price

[Ministry of Health | Rwanda @RwandaHealth]

In New York, on the sidelines of #UNGA81, Minister of State @YvanButera joined Michael Bloomberg, @DrTedros and other global leaders in strengthening environmental health surveillance and ending lead poisoning at an event convened by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Coefficient Giving and the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future.

He shared Rwanda’s actions to strengthen laboratories and monitoring systems so that lead exposure can be detected early, traced to its source and prevented — protecting children, workers and communities.

[UNHCR Rwanda @RefugeesRwanda]

“Higher education is giving me knowledge and skills that will help me in the future – find a job, earn money, and support my family.”

Nadia is studying civil engineering and turning her dream into reality, thanks to a DAFI scholarship.

Read her story: https://t.co/zEyiFLHJXK