Rwanda's national malaria control program, organized as the Malaria and Other Parasitic Diseases Division within the Rwanda Biomedical Center, a public health agency under the Ministry of Health. The division coordinates decentralized nationwide activities against malaria and other neglected tropical and parasitic diseases, including indoor residual spraying and insecticide resistance monitoring, procurement and distribution of insecticide-treated nets targeted especially at pregnant women and children under one year old, and data collection and surveillance used to guide the program's response. The division states a goal of ending malaria and neglected tropical diseases in Rwanda by 2030, and its work has been credited in published research with measurably reducing pediatric hospitalizations for malaria and febrile illness in areas where community-based components of the program have been implemented.
Facts
Sponsoring BodyRwanda Biomedical Centre 1 Health GoalEnd malaria and neglected tropical diseases in Rwanda by 2030 2 Geographic Scope Classification
Program Kind Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Africa, found in there.
Sources
1. Half-decade of scaling up malaria control in Rwanda, Malaria Journal 2025
Background section
The Malaria and Other Parasitic Diseases Division (MOPDD) within the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) oversees malaria control efforts, which are decentralized through referral and district hospitals, health centres, health posts and integrated community based management by trained health workers countrywide.
Program classification, entity description sentence
The division coordinates decentralized nationwide activities against malaria and other neglected tropical and parasitic diseases, including indoor residual spraying and insecticide resistance monitoring, procurement and distribution of insecticide-treated nets targeted especially at pregnant women and children under one year old, and data collection and surveillance used to guide the program's response.
View the Source2. RBC: Malaria and Other Parasitic Diseases
Division page, closing call to action
Together, we can end malaria and neglected tropical diseases by 2030. It is possible.
Division page, about section
The Malaria, Neglected Tropical Diseases and Other Parasitic Diseases Division (MOPDD) is a technical division with key role in Malaria, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and Other Parasitic Diseases (OPDs) Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment countrywide.
Division page, responsibilities
We are responsible for malaria prevention, vector control and case management, as well as addressing morbidity and mortality from neglected tropical diseases and other parasitic diseases.
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