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.

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.

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

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.