🇷🇼 - Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, KG 176 Street, Gasabo District, Rwanda

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#RabbitHole

Okay, I know I'm dumb so I'll spare you the agony by relating my entirely wasted afternoon.

It started with a simple student survey in my introduction to #PublicHealth class. We gave the students five potential topics for a debate day event. Vaccines, MCH stuff and the last one "is public health intrinsically global". That idea wasn't fleshed out in our minds and I thought it wouldn't get many votes because it wasn't very specific. It won (of course).

Now I get to make this learning module work. Sigh. We'll need readings and I'm good at the "of course public health is intrinsically global!" side of things so WHO it is and the Pandemic Agreement where;

"Article 12 establishes the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) System, which governs the rapid sharing of pathogens with pandemic potential and their genetic sequence data, while ensuring the equitable distribution of resulting benefits and medical countermeasures."

But the US withdrew from WHO and also ended USAID which is being replaced with an #AmericaFirstGlobalHealthStrategy;
https://www.state.gov/america-first-global-health-strategy

Which involves negotiating bilateral agreements that are specific for how US money is spent in each county, as an example I read the agreement with #Rwanda;

"United States-Rwanda Bilateral Health Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding"

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/12/continuing-to-deliver-on-the-america-first-global-health-strategy-with-the-signing-of-the-united-states-rwanda-bilateral-health-cooperation-memorandum-of-understanding/

Which includes language that's pretty durn specific language.

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Rwanda
Population: 13,623,302
GDP per capita: $3,300
Capital: Kigali

🌍 https://openfactbook.org/countries/rwanda/

#Rwanda #Data #OpenData #Statistics #DataViz

A cuisine you've probably never tried: Rwanda 🇷🇼

Isombe — cassava leaves pounded with ground peanuts
Brochettes — charcoal-grilled meat skewers
Ubugali — stiff porridge, torn by hand to scoop stews
Mizuzu — deep-fried plantains, caramelized at the edges

Beans provide 30%+ of dietary protein. Rwandan coffee has earned global recognition — bright acidity, floral notes, grown at altitude.

Simple ingredients. Deeply satisfying food.

https://www.worldfoodwine.com/food-in-rwanda

#food #Rwanda #AfricanFood #coffee