How Rwanda is eliminating hepatitis C and what Canada can learn from its successes
18 November 2021 • Par Dr. Jean Damascene Makuza, Dahn Jeong and Sofia BartlettRwanda is a country situated in sub-Saharan, eastern Africa with a high population density: 499 people per square kilometre in 2018 and a population of 12.6 million people in 2019, an increase of 2.64% from 2018. Although it is among the poorest countries in the world and experienced a genocide against the Tutsi people in 1994, Rwanda has made immense progress in the fields of public health, achieving its Millennium Development Goals for population health, such as reduction of under-five mortality and maternal mortality.