Effective health care in Rwanda comes down to quality, capacity and accessibility. The Access Project helps health centers get on their feet by providing management technical assistance, targeted financing, and in-depth training to ensure transparency and smooth operations. By honing management skills, the Access Project helps these centers improve their processes and services, making them successful facilities where the Global Fund and other donors are eager to invest.
The Access Project supports 80 health centers across Rwanda with intensive technical assistance, providing training and mentoring in a set of specified management domains. By addressing core management requirements, public health centers, which are the main source of health care in rural Rwanda, are able to build a solid foundation for serving their communities with high-quality primary health care and an efficient, sustainable supply chain of medicines and materials.
RW and the Access Project take a collaborative approach to comprehensively improving health centers, health systems, and health care. Access ensures that excellent health systems match with state-of-the-art health infrastructure, allowing health centers to thrive as sustainable entities and enabling patients to rely on quality health care in a well-run environment.
The Access Project works with health centers to implement improved systems in eight key management domains: human resources, infrastructure, finance, community health insurance, pharmacy logistics, health information systems, planning and coordination, and information technology. Click here for more information on the Access Project.
In 2007, the Access Project began to build Rwanda’s first Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Control Program. NTDs are a group of preventable and treatable infections including trachoma, schistosomiasis and intestinal worms, which can cause chronic illness, malnutrition, disfigurement, and other long-term consequences. Click here for more information on Neglected Tropical Diseases.
For more information about the Access Project, visit their website: www.theaccessproject.com.