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Reduced premature mortality in Rwanda: lessons from success

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Rwanda’s approach to delivering healthcare in a setting of post-conflict poverty offers lessons for other poor countries, say Paul Farmer and colleagues.
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Rwanda’s approach to delivering healthcare in a setting of post-conflict poverty offers lessons for other poor countries, say Paul Farmer and colleagues

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Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development

TL;DR: The need for surgical services in low- and middleincome countries will continue to rise substantially from now until 2030, with a large projected increase in the incidence of cancer, road traffic injuries, and cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in LMICs.
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Redefining global health-care delivery

TL;DR: A framework for global health-care delivery and evaluation is proposed by considering efforts to introduce HIV/AIDS care to resource-poor settings and introduces the notion of care delivery value chains that apply a systems-level analysis to the complex processes and interventions that must occur to deliver high-value care for patients with HIV/ AIDS and cooccurring conditions.
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Every Newborn: health-systems bottlenecks and strategies to accelerate scale-up in countries

TL;DR: A country-led, data-driven process to sharpen national health plans, seize opportunities to address the quality gap for care at birth and care of small and ill newborn babies, and systematically scale up care to reach every mother and newborn baby, particularly the poorest is proposed.
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The Human Resources for Health Program in Rwanda — A New Partnership

TL;DR: The authors discuss the Human Resources for Health Program, which is working to improve the quality and quantity of health professionals in Rwanda by means of sustained collaborations with U.S. schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, and public health.
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Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine

TL;DR: The impact of social violence upon people living with HIV in the US and Rwanda is described and the social structures that put people in harm's way are described.
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Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda

Peter Uvin
TL;DR: Uvin this article focused on the 1990s dynamics of militarization and polarization that resulted in the genocide in Rwanda and revealed how aid enterprises reacted, or failed to react, to those dynamics.
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Levels and trends in child mortality, 1990-2009

TL;DR: This article looks at the levels and trends in child mortality from 1990-2009 and states that removing financial and social barriers to accessing welfare services innovations to make supply of critical services more available to the poor and increasing local accountability of the health systems are examples of policy interventions that have allowed health systems to improve equity.
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Effect on maternal and child health services in Rwanda of payment to primary health-care providers for performance : an impact evaluation

TL;DR: P4P financial performance incentives can improve both the use and quality of maternal and child health services, and could be a useful intervention to accelerate progress towards Millennium Development Goals for maternal andChild health.
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Towards Universal Health Coverage: An Evaluation of Rwanda Mutuelles in Its First Eight Years

TL;DR: Rwanda's experience suggests that community-based health insurance schemes can be effective tools for achieving universal health coverage even in the poorest settings, and a future study on how eliminating Mutuelles copayments for the poorest will improve their healthcare utilization, lower their catastrophic health spending, and affect the finances of health care providers is suggested.
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