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Kigali, Rwanda
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On #WorldPolioDay, we reaffirm our commitment to protecting every child through sustained immunization, strong surveillance and rapid response.
Together, let’s accelerate progress towards a polio-free Africa and world. 🌍
#EndPolio
#VaccinesWork
This #WorldPolioDay and every day, Africa is making progress towards a polio-free future!
🌍 From January to September 2026, 168M+ children were vaccinated, and polio detections in the region have declined by 33% since 2024. But rising detections of poliovirus types 1 and 3 remind us that the fight is not over.
Stronger surveillance, faster response and sustained commitment are essential to protecting every child.
#EndPolio
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Rwanda @FCDOGovUK Development Director, Billy Stewart, met WHO Rep Dr @BrianChirombo to discuss collaboration. They identified #AMR, Emergency Medical Teams, #Ebola preparedness, Emergency Medical Services & #digitization as areas of potential collaboration supporting Rwanda 🇷🇼
How can better data improve #SRHR ? In Musanze, stakeholders are developing a national roadmap through #RAISESRHR initiative, to strengthen health information systems, accountability &evidence-informed action to accelerate progress towards SRHR commitments.
#HealthData
Strong health information systems must do more than capture data from health facilities; they must help address the needs of the communities they serve. Through the #RAISESRHR initiative, Rwanda is working to strengthen SRHR data and accountability.
The national roadmap workshop is bringing together government, civil society, and development partners to identify priorities for strengthening routine health information systems and accelerating progress towards national and global #SRHR commitments.
#HealthData
This #WorldMentalHealthDay, let’s put people with lived experience at the heart of mental health care. In #Rwanda and beyond, we must strengthen community-based services, protect dignity and rights, and ensure everyone can access the support they need.
#MentalHealth
It's #WorldMentalHealthDay
Nearly 1 in 7 people live with a #MentalHealth condition.
People with lived experience can help transform mental health care at every stage: from designing services to delivering and improving them.
By collaborating and working together, experts with lived experience, and people working in mental health systems, policy, and research can design care that is person-centred, rights-based and rooted in dignity.
Make community-based services stronger, support continuity of care and make every conversation count bit.ly/4yJjvBc
ALT Graphic showing seven purple human figures with text stating nearly 1 in 7 people live with a mental health condition, encouraging inclusion.
On #WorldMeningitisDay, let’s raise awareness about meningitis and the importance of prevention, early recognition and timely access to care.
Knowing the facts can help protect ourselves, our families and our communities.
@viralfacts
#Meningitis #HealthForAll
Today is #WorldMeningitisDay.
What is #meningitis, and how does it spread?
Find out more in this video ⬇️
@viralfacts
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Zambia demonstrated how digital health can move from strategy & planning to scale, aligning investments with national architecture. Rwanda showed what scale can deliver: an integrated digital health ecosystem that improves health services and delivers measurable health outcomes
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“Digital transformation requires #leadership, #governance, sustainable financing & national ownership, with capacity to translate #digital investments into quality health services that are equitable, people-centred & resilient”, said @WHORwanda Rep Dr @BrianChirombo, @ #AHTS2026
The meeting agreed that innovators must align with national priorities & support governments to move from pilots to scale & from fragmentation to interoperability. Innovations must be relevant, strengthen health systems & result in better health for the people.
#AHTS2026
“Digital health innovation is not measured by how impressiveness the technology is but how it improves people’s health. Innovators must design for interoperability&scale, protect data privacy&build solutions that health systems can sustain” said @WHORwanda Rep Dr @BrianChirombo
At today’s #AHTSat5 roundtable on Digital Public Infrastructure for Health, the discussion centred on a critical question: how can promising digital health innovations move beyond pilots and become part of national health systems?
Today @ #AHTSat5, WHO is convening a roundtable on Digital Public Infrastructure for Health - bringing together government, innovators &entrepreneurs to explore how digital foundations can help health innovations interoperate, scale & deliver impact
📍 KCC, AD 7 | 🕘 9:00–10:30
Hon Dr Salako, Nigeria Health Minister, closed the WHO-led round table by urging countries to take practical steps to move from strategy to implementation, take pilots to scale & transform individual digital solutions to integrated national ecosystems that improve people's health
“Digital transformation requires #leadership, #governance, sustainable financing & national ownership, with capacity to translate #digital investments into quality health services that are equitable, people-centred & resilient”, said @WHORwanda Rep Dr @BrianChirombo, @ #AHTS2026
Day 1 of #AHTSat5 set the tone: bold ideas, strong partnerships & a shared commitment to action.
At @WHO, we’re committed to working with countries & partners to turn tech innovation into health impact—and build health systems that work better for the people they serve. 🌍
Kigali came alive for Day 1 of #AHTSat5.
More than 5,600 delegates gathered with one shared purpose: to shape health systems that are intelligent, connected and capable of delivering wellness for all.
The opening ceremony marked five years of the @AfricaHTSummit and five years of building a community that now brings together ministers, health leaders, innovators, investors, implementers and partners from across Africa and beyond.
Throughout the day, one question sharpened every conversation: Does the innovation work for the people who need it most?
From AI and health data to financing, workforce development, medical equipment and digital infrastructure, the focus was firmly on implementation. Solutions must respond to African realities, strengthen public systems, earn trust and reach people wherever they are.
The exhibition brought that ambition to life, while the conversations in the rooms made the next step clear: move from pilots to scale, from fragmented tools to connected systems, and from promising ideas to measurable health impact.
We closed Day 1 celebrating the culture, creativity and connections that make this community powerful.
Five years brought us here. The work we do now will define what comes next.
#AHTS2026 #AHTSat5 #5YearsOfImpact #WellnessForAll #AfricaHealthTech #IntelligentHealthSystems
During the Rwanda Country Spotlight session at #AHTSat5, UN Resident Coordinator a.i. & @WHORwanda Rep. @BrianChirombo reaffirmed UN support for Rwanda’s efforts to build stronger, connected health systems where every provider has the tools, skills & data to deliver quality care.
@BrianChirombo stressed that technology and AI are not the destination. The goal is healthier people, stronger communities and resilient health systems - built on equity, trust and impact.
#AHTS2026 #DigitalHealth
