• Brice Poreau.
• Institut Santé Publique Relations Internationales (ISPRI) / International Studies Public Health Institute (ISPHI) Rue E. Pons 69004 Lyon - France poreau_brice@yahoo.fr Tel: +33 45 65 20 753.
• Afr Health Sci. 2014 Dec 1; 14 (4): 107810841078-84.

BackgroundSince the genocide occurred in 1994, Rwanda has faced up to the challenge of rebuilding. Public health is a main field to understand this rebuilding.ObjectivesIn this paper, the aim was to map the scientific research on public health in Rwanda after the genocide and to present the links between different financing systems.MethodsWe used bibliographic analyses with Web of Science of papers published during the period 1975-2014. We performed analyses on journals, most cited articles, authors, publication years, organizations, funding companies, countries, and keywords.ResultsWe obtained 86 articles between 1975 and 2014. Most articles were published after 2007. The main countries of research laboratories were the United States of America, Rwanda, England and Belgium and represented the main network collaboration. The relevant keywords were: HIV, woman, child, program, rural and violence.ConclusionsPublic health research on Rwanda appeared 14 years after the genocide. A main field was emerging: the spread of HIV with mother-child transmission, and the policies to take this subject into account in rural zones. The network of institutions developing these studies was USA-Rwanda.

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