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President Obama's ambitious Global Health Initiative — announced to a receptive international community in 2009 — is faltering as budget constraints and shaky implementation limit the impact of the multibillion-dollar program.
Facts and figures on Rwanda's health challenges and the aims of the GHI.
WASHINGTON — Here’s a fact-based snapshot of Rwanda's health challenges and the ways that U.S. President Barack Obama's Global Health Initiative plans to address these issues.
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Total GHI spending:
FY 2009: $166 million
FY 2010: $162 million
Total population: 11 million
GDP per capita: $1,100
Proportion of children who die before their fifth birthday: 1 in 9
Maternal mortality per 100,000 live births: 750
Major health concerns in the country:
1) Infant, child and maternal mortality are all extremely high
2) A high risk and burden of malaria throughout the whole population
GHI focus areas: This is still to be determined; the US government has not yet released its country strategy documents for Rwanda.
(Sources: CIA; GHI country strategy documents; Kaiser Family Foundation; UN; www.foreignassistance.gov)
Funding for this project is provided by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation as part of its U.S. Global Health Policy program.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/health/110505/healing-the-world-rwanda
Funding for this project is provided by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation as part of its U.S. Global Health Policy program.
Funding for this project is provided by the Ford Foundation.