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Inshuti Mu Buzima

last updated Aug 17, 2012

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Partners In Health (PIH)
Implementation Partner(s): 
Rwandan Ministry of Health, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative
Legal Status: 
Public-private partnership
Year Launched: 
2005
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
All income levels

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Government
Funders: 
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Scale

Number of Clients Served: 
Over 350,000 people
Number of Facilities Operated/Networked: 
4 health centres
Scope: 
IMB has expanded and now offers HIV prevention, testing, and treatment at six sites in southeastern Rwanda with Rwinkwavu Hospital as its main referral site; it is also operational in 4 health centers in Kirehe health district.
Summary: 

Inshuti Mu Buzima (IMB) is a Partners in Health (PIH) initiative that was formed to address HIV prevention and treatment issues in rural Rwanda, as most HIV and health programs in Rwanda are urban centered.

Program goals/rationale: 

Inshuti Mu Buzima project activities are aimed at scaling up HIV treatment and care in rural Rwanda; strengthening the country’s national training and evaluation programs; and developing, documenting, and disseminating a rural care model for HIV that can be adapted and replicated throughout Rwanda and other African countries.

Key program components: 

Inshuti Mu Buzima conducts extensive training for clinical staff and community health workers.

IMB also offers HIV testing, prenatal counseling for women and makes referral for complicated cases to Rwinkwavu hospital. In addition, it distributes food packets monthly to HIV and tuberculosis patients and their families; this was modeled after a Program on Social and Economic Rights (POSER), a program in Haiti.

Program history: 

Inshuti Mu Buzima which means "Partners In Health" in Kinyarwanda (a local dialect), is a project that was formed and launched in the spring of 2005 at the invitation of the Rwandan government to address the challenges of global health in the country. The project was formed to replicate PIH's successful model of building comprehensive HIV prevention and treatment in central Haiti.

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