Rwanda Overview
Background
CDC-Rwanda began transitioning financial and technical responsibilities for HIV clinical services at 76 Health Facilities from international NGOs to MoH-Rwanda in 2010, with all transitioned by February 2012. Financial and clinical performance of transitioned sites is monitored every 6 months.
MOH-Rwanda and HEALTHQUAL developed a clinic-level QI program in March 2011 to help maintain the quality of clinical care.
Goals:
- Improve and sustain quality of HIV/AIDS clinical services at health centers and district hospitals.
- Build national capacity in quality management
- Integrate QI in the existing clinical mentorship system
QI team
- Coordinates, monitors implementation
- Selects sites for inclusion based on transition monitoring data & priorities of MoH
Phased approach to implementation
- 9 sites in first phase, 15 more to be added in May 2012
Demographic Data
Population: ~10 millions
(26,338 km²)
Rural population: 83 % (DHS III, 2005)
Generalized HIV epidemic
3% prevalence in general population
4.3% among pregnant women
Rapid scale up of HIV services
367 PMTCT sites
398 VCT sites
283 ART sites
(Full package: VCT/PMTCT/ART)
On ART:75 023 (66.5% coverage)
Team/Leadership
Dr Sabin Nsanzimana
Head, HIV Division
Ministry of Health
Mr. Simon Pierre Niyonsenga
HIV Adolecent Care Specialist
Ministry of Health
Program Organigram
