National Strategic Framework

The National Strategic Framework (2002-2006) is being implemented, and the Ministries of Youth and Sports, Defence, and Education have developed HIV/AIDS programmes.

Ministry of Health

Dr Ben Karenzi
PO Box 84 Kigali
Tel: +250 577 458
Fax: +250 577 458
Email: [email protected]

National Commission against HIV/AIDS (CNLS)
Contact person: Agnes Binagwaho
Tel: +250 582 018
Fax: +250 583 325
Email: [email protected]

HIV/AIDS Organisations:

1. Africare
   Contact person: Jean-Baptiste Ntakirutimana
   B.P. 137 Kigali
   Tel: +250 577 484
   Fax: +250 585 196
   Email: [email protected]
2. Association of Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS (ANSP+)
   Contact person: Dorothy Wibabara
   PO Box 6384 Kigali
   Tel: +250 08521671
   Email: [email protected]
3. Protection and Care of Families Against HIV/AIDS (PACFA) Project
   Tel: +250 59062048
   Fax: +250 511 620
   Email: [email protected]
   Website: www.pacfa.rw
   · Prevention campaigns; family support - PMTCT; advocacy and resource mobilisation.
4. Population Services International - Rwanda
   B.P. 3040 Kigali
   Tel: +250 503 481 / +250 503 482
   Fax: +250 503 478
   Email: [email protected]
   · Prevention campaigns, condom distribution, advocacy.
5. Society for Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA) Rwanda
   Contact person: Christine Kibiriti
   BP 5196 Kigali
   Tel: +250 501 303
   Fax: +250 501 303
   Email: [email protected]
   Website: www.swaainternational.org
6. Treatment and Research AIDS Centre (TRAC)
   Contact person: Dr Etienne Karita
   Tel: +250 578 472
   Fax: +250 576 853
   Email: [email protected]
7. UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS
   Contact person: Bintou Keita
   Tel: +250 590 405
   Fax: +250 573 024
   Email: [email protected]
8. UNAIDS Country Coordinator
   Contact person: Dirk Van Hove
   Tel: +250 510 623
   Fax: +250 510 622
   Email: [email protected]

For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications

For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications

Source: WHO/UNAIDS epidemiological fact sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2004 Update.
Email: [email protected]

Assessment of the epidemiological situation (2004)

HIV information among antenatal clinic attendees is available from Rwanda since the late 1980s. In Kigali, the major urban area, 32 percent of antenatal clinic attendees tested in 1988 were HIV positive. HIV prevalence has ranged between 25 and 33 percent among antenatal clinic attendees in Kigali through 1995. In 2002, the sentinel surveillance program expanded to 5 urban sites. In 2003, HIV prevalence in Kigali among antenatal clinic women tested was 16 percent. Median prevalence in the other urban sites was 6.2

Outside of the major urban areas, HIV prevalence among antenatal clinic attendees ranged from 3 to 9 percent between 1991 and 1996. In 2002, sentinel surveillance was expanded to 12 rural sites. In 2003 median prevalence among pregnant women tested was 2.8 percent, ranging from 1.1 percent to 5.5 percent.

There is no information on HIV prevalence among sex workers in Rwanda.

Information on HIV prevalence among male STD clinic patients is available from Kigali since 1985. HIV prevalence reached 56 percent among male STD clinic patients tested in 1990 and 74 percent among female patients. In 1996, 42 percent of STD clinic patients tested at two sites in Kigali were HIV positive. Outside major urban areas, 42 percent of STD clinic patients tested in Kabgayi and 13 percent in Ruli were HIV positive.