Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 10930
Country/Region: Rwanda
Year: 2009
Main Partner: To Be Determined
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Implementing Agency
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $0

Funding for Biomedical Prevention: Injection Safety (HMIN): $0

ACTIVITY IS NEW IN FY 2009

PEPFAR has been providing assistance to countries to implement programs to ensure safe injection

practices, to eliminate unnecessary medical injections and to manage the disposal of infectious medical

waste. John Snow, Inc. (JSI) provided leadership for Rwanda by maintaining activities in four technical

areas: logistics and central level procurement, training and capacity development, advocacy and behavior

change communication and medical waste management. As JSI's Making Medical Injections Safer (MMIS)

program comes to an end in Rwanda, PEPFAR is transitioning to a program that will be managed and

guided by the Ministry of Health's (MOH) Department of Environmental Health. A new funding

announcement is being issued to continue PEPFAR support to Rwanda for injection safety and medical

waste management and to expand capacity building efforts within the MOH to manage injection safety

programs. While significant progress has been made over the last four years, the injection safety program

in Rwanda continues to require financial and technical support, particularly to strengthen the overall

program and to build human resource capacity in Rwanda's MOH.

New/Continuing Activity: New Activity

Continuing Activity:

Emphasis Areas

Construction/Renovation

Human Capacity Development

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Education

Water

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