Rwanda Must Continue To Strengthen Health System With Decreasing Reliance On Global Fund

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Yvan Butera, general practitioner at the Rwanda Military Hospital

“…Rwanda’s visionary approach to the use of Global Fund money for strengthening its health system has been effective in meeting health-related development targets and allows the government to look ahead toward strategies for maintaining a resilient health system independently. We should, now, usher in the era of a progressive shift en route to locally funded health programs. … Unlike most countries, Rwanda … used [Global Fund] money to strengthen its entire health system. … With this approach, Rwanda was able to achieve the health-related [Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)] through financial inputs of the Global Fund. … Looking forward, these gains should be kept, improved, and sustained with decreasing reliance on the Global Fund. It is through a resilient health system owned by the country, public-private partnership, and local inter-sectorial partnerships that the health system can be sufficiently strong” (6/19).

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