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On 22 December 2023, IZERE MUBYEYI Organisation hosted an event for children with disabilities in its Special Needs Education Center located in Kigali, Kicukiro District, to share the joy of Christmas celebration. This event aimed at promoting the rights of children with disabilities and the principle of social inclusion along…

Children living with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus(T1DM) have called on donors to support them with access to test strips, blood glucose meters to stay alive for a longer time. The call was made during an event to celebrate the World Diabetes Day in Rwanda which was marked in Kigali city…

Along highways, the women selling in these markets deliver to windows of buses They are on busy street corners. In many residential areas of urban centers around the country, you find them too. They are also dotted along major highways. They are operated exclusively by women. They sell all kinds…

Rwanda Nook Hub (RNH) held its forth graduation where children from unprivileged backgrounds showed off creative skills that could contribute to Rwanda’s target to produce locally made products. RNH is a community based center that opened in 2019 in Gahanga sector, Kicukiro district and uses the self-learning model to turn…

An annual poll by Gallup suggests that women, on average worldwide, have been getting angrier over the past 10 years. Why might this be? Two years ago Tahsha Renee was standing in her kitchen when a deep, dark, hollow scream emerged from the depths of her lungs. It took her…

Two young adults born with HIV write an open letter to people in the HIV advocacy space on respecting the confidentiality of people with perinatally acquired HIV. One of the universal rules of the HIV world is that you do not ask someone how they acquired HIV, and yet our…

It is a sunny and bright day as all Dream Village (DV) Rwanda beneficiaries are assembled at Kigali Parents School grounds to celebrate the 2022 Dream Village Day. Alice Umuganwa, one of the girl beneficiaries at Dream Village delivers to her friends a poem called “My life is in my…

● Majority of Rwandan households spend nearly 60% of annual income on Christmas costs● Six countries observed – Rwanda, Cameroon, Nigeria, Mexico, Lebanon, Philippines – spend 100% or more of monthly income on Christmas LONDON, 30 November 2021 — The holiday season is here! Around the world, families are making…

A burial of a COVID-19 victim in Rwanda Oxford University scientists have discovered a gene that doubles the risk of respiratory failure and death from COVID-19 and is more common among people of South Asian descent. The findings are latest attempt at explaining why higher rates of hospitalisation and death…

Dr Rebecca Powell is on a quest to understand the immune response to infection and vaccination in breastmilk, in the hope of designing maternal vaccines to boost babies’ protection against disease. She answered some issues concerning her research about breast milk and COVID-19 Rebecca Powell, Ph.D., CLC is an Assistant…

SMS is still the preferred way to communicate among Americans despite WhatsApp being from their country The instant messaging application, WhatsApp, registered a drop affecting more than 2 billion users worldwide. USA was the exception. Less than 20% of smartphone users in the United States use WhatsApp, to communicate, according…

Researchers have calculated a key number—the threshold of protection—for other vaccines. Covid-19’s is still a mystery. A healthcare worker prepared a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccination clinic in Los Angeles last month. Photo: Jill Connelly/Bloomberg News Why don’t Covid-19 vaccinations last longer? Measles shots are…

Cuba is vaccinating children as young as 2yrs with its own vaccine Cuba has become the first country in the world to vaccinate children as young as two years old. However, the jabs given to the children are homegrown which has not been recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO).…

A policewoman gets her jab at vaccination site in Kigali It is over a year since the COVID-19 virus emerged in Rwanda. Many have contracted the virus and deaths have increased over time. In a bid to face the challenge, the government allowed home-based care for the patients who are…

The new findings are a positive development in finding medication for elderly people to reverse their memory loss (Photo: Snocksnapper) Scientists at Cambridge and Leeds Universities have successfully reversed age-related memory loss in mice and say their discovery could lead to the development of treatments to prevent memory loss in…

Brands of alcohol made in Rwanda Women aged between 18 and 50 should be stopped from drinking alcohol because it may harm their chances of giving birth, World Health Organisation bosses have claimed. The World Health Organisation’s proposal has been slammed as “idiocy” for suggesting that all women of childbearing…

Barbara Nel, Africa region Country President, AstraZeneca Astrazeneca has said that it will maintain a strong partnership with the Covax Initiative to ensure African countries receive substantial vaccines for their citizens. Barbara Nel, Africa region Country President, AstraZeneca said in a statement: “I was delighted to see the arrival of…

The Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship at MIT has launched the Foundry Fellowship, a first-of-its-kind leadership program for accomplished entrepreneurs who are considering their role in shaping the future of the African innovation ecosystems in which they work and live.  At an inflection point in their entrepreneurial journeys, Fellows…

Policewoman gets her COVID-19 jab at a vaccination center in western Rwanda Like most adult jabs, this slew of vaccines — including those developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca and Pfizer and BioNTech — are injected into the deltoid: the thick, fleshy muscle of your upper arm. Despite using a…

Nimukuze Beatha A young woman from Rugarama village, Nyinya cell, Rukira sector, Ngoma district has been reliving one of the most painful episodes of her life for nearly a year. Nimukuze Beatha, 20, was raped by a man who at first pretended to help. A local health center gave her…

Despite its limited material resources, Cuba is responsible for developing two of only 23 coronavirus vaccines to have entered phase III trials anywhere in the world – and it has another three on the way. Helen Yaffe (University of Glasgow) explains how the Soberana, Abdala, and Mambisa vaccines work; how they will roll out…

Gicumbi Stars have played and won at nearly every parasports tournament They had been admirable for many years for winning trophy after another, until the COVID-19 pandemic turned their world upside down. Players of Gicumbi Stars, a team for people living with physical disabilities, are unable to feed themselves. In…

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent (fasting and abstinence) and is always 46 days before Easter Sunday. For 2021, Catholics in Rwanda are going to have a different start to Lent period than they have done for centuries. There will not be the customary painting of crosses on the…

Israel’s largest healthcare provider said Sunday a study of more than half a million fully vaccinated Israelis indicated the Pfizer/biotechnologies jab gave 94 percent protection against COVID-19. It is the same vaccine now already in Rwanda. Clalit Health Services said that in a groundbreaking project its researchers tested 600,000 subjects…

The PPEs for medical workers and face masks for the general public, it seems, are here to stay Despite vaccines in place and more on the way, plus the global fatigue that the COVID-19 virus has provoked – some things that have marked this era may never go away. A…

Ayinkamiye Emmerance stands in her potatoes garden which has yet to grow An elderly woman Ayinkamiye Emmerance has been given some reprieve following an incident in which she was fined Rwf 50,000 (about $51) for allegedly stealing two cobs of maize. The incident happened on Thursday morning in Karuruma village,…

NAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – African countries will pay between $3 and $10 per vaccine dose to access 270 million COVID-19 shots secured this month by the African Union (AU), according to a draft briefing on the plan prepared by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and provided to Reuters. South African President…

Health authorities in Norway say there’s no evidence of a direct link between the recent string of deaths among elderly people inoculated against Covid-19, and the vaccine they received. The Norwegian Medicines Agency is seeking to address fears that taking the vaccine might be too risky, after 33 people in…

A testing facility in Kigali As many as 29 people above the age of 75 died in Norway after getting vaccinated for Covid-19. Pfizer’s BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is the only vaccine available in Norway. The number of people above 75 with serious underlying health conditions who died after taking vaccines…

A mass testing center in Kigali A person who was infected and cured from Covid-19 provides them with some immunity for at least five months, but people may still carry and transmit the virus, according to a new study. A UK government-commissioned study among British healthcare workers say those to…