Rwanda's Health System and Sickness Insurance Schemes

Laurent Musango, Jean Damascène Butera, Hertilan Inyarubuga and Bruno Dujardin

International Social Security Review, 2006, vol. 59, issue 1, 93-103

Abstract: After the war and the 1994 genocide, Rwanda drew up a national health policy with a view to realigning its health system. The reform, which was designed to remedy the deficiencies of the previous system, focused on community involvement in managing and financing health services. Achieving this objective was never going to be easy, but thanks to a growing number of initiatives 37.8 per cent of the Rwandan population now have some degree of sickness insurance cover. However, the system in general, and more particularly the mutual associations organized around the community, needs to be strengthened.

Date: 2006
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