Enabel supports Maternal and Child Health Week 2025

  • Enabel supports Maternal and Child Health Week 2025

Enabel proudly participated in Rwanda’s Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Week, held from January 13–17, 2025. This important initiative, led by the Ministry of Health and its partners, plays a significant role in addressing maternal and child health challenges that remain in the country. While Rwanda has made great strides in improving maternal and child health, issues such as neonatal mortality, high stunting rates, and limited access to family planning services remain.

During the campaign, Enabel focused on two critical health interventions: screening for malnutrition (with 63,676 children under 2 years old screened) and providing family planning services (serving 1,840 women with modern contraceptive methods), in the districts of Gisagara, Karongi, Nyamasheke, and Rusizi. These services aim to reduce malnutrition and ensure that women and men have access to the information and resources needed for healthier families.

Enabel’s involvement is part of the Belgium-Rwanda cooperation programme 2024-2029 in the health sector, aiming to strengthening access to quality healthcare, with a particular emphasis on sexual and reproductive health and combating gender-based violence.

The bi-annual MCH Week offers an essential platform for decentralised health services, reaching out to communities with vital interventions like vitamin A supplementation (administering 212,320 doses to children under five) deworming, nutrition screening, family planning services and immunisation catch-ups for children who have missed doses.

By addressing gaps in maternal and child health services, MCH Week plays a vital role in promoting behaviour change, raising health awareness, and improving health outcomes for women and children across the country.
 

  • Enabel supports Maternal and Child Health Week 2025
  • Enabel supports Maternal and Child Health Week 2025
  • Enabel supports Maternal and Child Health Week 2025
  • Enabel supports Maternal and Child Health Week 2025

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