Nyacyonga Clinic

                                  

                                       Nyacyonga Clinic

    Located about a 40 minute drive outside Kigali (per private car), we sped past the dwindling villages until we reached this clinic perched upon a hill.  The nurse was very relaxed as patients passed their HIV tracking books (Kubonana Na Muganga) through the metal grates of the open windows and the social worker-in-training typed their names into the Rwandan National Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to check their insurance and registration.  They then passed whichever combination of meds the patient needed back through the window along with their little tracking books.

Here are some of the materials (aside from the computer and EMR) that the clinic used to ARV info:

List and explanation of dosing of ARV's for children under 15yo

Book to track discordant couples, or couples with one
HIV+ partner and one HIV negative partner

Book of Patient records (Dossier) plus a prescription pad

See a brief video of the scenic drive here: