Rwanda: What It Will Take to Eliminate NTDs By 2030

Rwanda: What It Will Take to Eliminate NTDs By 2030

Esperance Mukagakwaya, a rice farmer cooperative in Ruhango District, recalls the day her daughter fell sick from bilharzia, an experience that exposed gaps in community awareness about the disease.

What it will take to eliminate NTDs by 2030

Esperance Mukagakwaya, a rice farmer cooperative in Ruhango District, recalls the day her daughter fell sick from bilharzia, an experience that exposed gaps in community awareness about the disease. ALSO READ: Youth step up fight against neglected tropical diseases “Many of us did not clearly understand how diseases like bilharzia are transmitted or how to protect ourselves,” Mukagakwaya, a member of a farmer cooperative in Nyamagana sector, tol…