{"id":186,"date":"2025-10-13T17:31:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/?p=186"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:31:58","slug":"president-kagame-meets-au-health-commissioner-ama-chief-to-advance-africas-health-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame Meets AU Health Commissioner, AMA Chief to Advance Africa\u2019s Health Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President <strong>Paul Kagame<\/strong>, in his capacity as the <strong>African Union\u2019s Special Envoy for Health Financing and Investment<\/strong>, met with <strong>Ambassador Amma Twum-Amoah<\/strong>, AU Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs, and Social Development, and <strong>Dr. Delese Mimi Darko<\/strong>, Director-General of the <strong>African Medicines Agency (AMA)<\/strong>, at <strong>Village Urugwiro<\/strong> in Kigali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The discussions focused on the progress made toward making the AMA fully operational and on expanding collaboration to strengthen Africa\u2019s healthcare infrastructure and systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With its <strong>headquarters in Kigali<\/strong>, the African Medicines Agency plays a vital role in promoting high standards of medicine regulation across the continent. It seeks to coordinate efforts to ensure that Africans have access to safe, effective, and affordable medical products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Kagame highlighted <strong>Rwanda\u2019s continued leadership in public health<\/strong>, stressing that sustainable progress depends on <strong>investing national resources into domestic health financing<\/strong> rather than relying solely on external aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meeting reflected a strong commitment to reinforcing partnerships between <strong>Rwanda and the African Union<\/strong>, aimed at improving healthcare delivery, promoting innovation, and advancing human development throughout Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame, in his capacity as the African Union\u2019s Special Envoy for Health Financing and Investment, met with Ambassador Amma Twum-Amoah, AU Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs, and Social Development, and Dr. Delese Mimi Darko, Director-General of the African Medicines Agency (AMA), at Village Urugwiro in Kigali. The discussions focused on the progress made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}