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Community engagement and health financing model towards malaria elimination in Rwanda: Rice farmers’ willingness to pay for malaria larval source management Leon Mutesa, MD, PhD*

Health financing is part of an action research project that aims to eliminate malaria (MEPR project) in the community of Ruhuha in southern east Rwanda. The main thrust of the project is local community involvement and (co-)financing of interventions that can tackle malaria.

What can Uganda do to successfully roll out and sustain health insurance? By Angela Kisakye

Governments in Africa are constrained in their capacity to finance health, as evidenced by the low levels of public health spending in most African countries.  Financing health care is not only an indication of the government’s commitment to the population’s well being but it also addresses issues of equity especially for the vulnerable and the poor who cannot afford private health care.

Savings Groups in Luwero Contribute to Improved Household Hygiene and Sanitation. By Denis Muhangi

In Luwero district Uganda,  members of Bajja Basaaga loans and savings group in Dekabusa Village, Luwero Sub-county have in recent months found a new way to improve their household hygiene and sanitation.

Commemorating the World Preterm Day: A Reflection on KTNET Africa Partners’ Work. By Angela Kisakye

‘There is no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its Children.’ Nelson Mandela

The Ten Top Qualities of Great Community Leaders. By Moses Tetui

As noted in one of our earlier blogs, community governance is a fairly popular concept now in the field of health. Community leaders therefore are becoming an important part of their communities. A community leader is someone who is perceived to represent the community’s interests and plays the role of protecting them.

The Open Policy Window for influencing reform of the Ghanaian NHIS: Reflections on the WOTRO-COHEISION Opportunity. By Dr Suzanne Kiwanuka.

“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.”“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.

Evaluating the effect of a clinical decision making support system on maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity in Ghana: A cluster randomized controlled trial. By: Hannah Brown Amoakoh MD, MPH

With a maternal mortality rate of 350/100,00 live births1 and neonatal mortality of 32/1000 live births2, Ghana cannot achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4&5 by the close of year 2015 (1), but has a chance to work towards attainment of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.23.

What has one year of blogging produced? By Angela Kisakye

Over the past year, we have posted over 30 blogs focusing on the different thematic areas that our partners are working on within their research projects. All the blogs have been posted on the KTNET Africa project website to stimulate dialogue. The blogs have also been shared on other global platforms such as via Research gate for a wider community to learn what our partners’ research is about.

Biological control of mosquitoes in collaboration with the communty: Use of Bti for larval source management (LSM) in Ruhuha sector, Rwanda. By Leon MUTESA, MD, PhD

The initiative is carried out in Ruhuha sector located about 42 km from the Capital of Rwanda. The sector is drained by four main wetlands transformed into irrigated rice fields, while seasonal crops occupy the fifth wetland.  A while ago, malaria was reported as highly endemic and a serious problem.

Sustaining Interventions. Should we sustain every intervention anyway? By Dr. Elizabeth Ekirapa-kiracho

I have been working in three districts in Eastern Uganda for almost 5 years. In these projects (Safe deliveries and Maternal and Newborn Interventions for Equitable Systems) we have been trying out different interventions that are aimed at increasing access to maternal and newborn health services. One of the challenges that we have faced is sustaining these interventions. In this blog I want to share with you four things that I think are particularly important for sustaining interventions.

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