Glucose control in Rwandan youth with type 1 diabetes following establishment of systematic, HbA1c based, care and education.

Aims: To assess change in glycemic control concurrent with increased clinic visits, HbA1c testing, and education. Rates of complications were also examined.

Methods: A 1-2 year follow-up of 214 members of the Rwanda Life for a Child program (aged <26 years) with a first HbA1c between June 2009 and November 2010 was conducted.

Restoring diabetes care in Rwanda: the need for effective partnerships.

In 1994, more than one million people died in Rwanda in one of the worst genocides in modern times. Rwandan society, at all levels including healthcare, continues to count the human and financial costs of the tragedy--a burden which is compounded by the debilitating scarcity of resources in the nation as a whole. Most of Rwanda's 8,200,000 inhabitants are united by poverty: according to figures published by the World Bank, the yearly per capita income in Rwanda is US dollar 220.