Research is critical to ensure effective health care and innovation in the health sector. And over the last twenty-two years, Rwanda health sector has gained praise from local and development partners for its continuous reduction of maternal and infant death rates, malaria, new HIV infection and mother to child HIV Read more…
As the title says, this was an outreach organized by University of Rwanda in collaboration with Medical Students’ Association of Rwanda(MEDSAR) and Nursing and Midwifery Students Association of Rwanda. (NMSAR). The outreach was for screening the population in Huye district and the districts around on Non communicable diseases (NCDs) and Read more…
World Malaria day is one of the international days that are celebrated by WHO. It is in this same line that we, as Medical Students’ Association of Rwanda, organized a community outreach in southern province of Rwanda about Malaria. The outreach took place in a secondary school, Groupe Scolaire Officiel Read more…
WHO states that TB is one of the top 10 causes of death Worldwide. In 2017, 10 million people fell ill with TB, and 1.6 million died from the disease (Including 0.3 million among people with HIV). In 2017 again, an estimated 1 million children became ill with TB and Read more…
Editor ERIC NIYONGIRA, a SCORAangel March 8, every year the world celebrates international women’s day (IWD). This global day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, the day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender equality. This year 2019, the theme for international women’s day Read more…
As an activity that happens yearly and that MEDSAR through its standing committee on public Health (SCOPH) celebrate, this year’s World Cancer Day (WCD) has been a success for MEDSAR and SCOPH, particularly. The activity had been planned to take place in three phases (3), and, as planned, it happened in the preplanned Read more…
It is a hot Saturday afternoon, in Huye, a small town in the south of Rwanda at a university that existed for almost 56 Years, when beautiful souls that are great devotees to Rights of the Human Race and Peace in the world gathers. Everyone knows them as SCORPions. They aren’t Read more…
IT BEGINS WITH YOU They wore a cloth of despair, what they saw forth was nothing but a bleak future, after all nothing more could be expected from these poor innocent children who merely survived on drugs and shoe fix glue. It was in 2012 when I first had an Read more…
It is known that MEDSAR has two have General Assemblies every year, this previous GA is entitled MEDSAR For FUTURE took place on 29th – 30th December in University of Rwanda Huye campus. It was a special GA as more participants were young generation from level 1 and level 2 Read more…
30th September MEDSAR celebrated World Heart Day starting with a Car Free day in Kirehe District the Eastern Province of Rwanda with the Ministry of Health, Partners in Health (Inshuti mu buzima, Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC), and Vision for a Nation. The event’s theme was “Twite kumutima, tuwurinda indwara Tubigire Read more…