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Global Health Economics and
Sustainability
Sustainability of Rwanda’s UHC: 2011–2021 and vision 2050

Acknowledgments School of Public Health (Ref: 037/UR/CHMS/SPH/2013)
on January 11, 2014. Ethical approval (Ref.: 001/UR/
We would like to thank the Ministry of Health, the Ministry CMHS/SPH/2014) was obtained from the UR/CMHS/
of Finance and Economic Planning, the National Bank of SPH Institutional Review Board on February 11, 2014.
Rwanda, and the RSSB/CBHI for providing secondary data Authorization of research was provided by the Rwanda
for this study. We are grateful to Mr. Jean Louis Mukunzi and Ministry of Health (letter no. 20/1522/PHIS/ME&R/2014).
Mrs. Denise Ingeri, the Head of MOH and the Head of the Finally, all participants signed the informed consent form
Health Financing Unit/CTAMS, respectively, and one of the before their enrolment.
CTAMS staff for their valuable support in survey preparation,
organization, and co-supervision in collaboration with the Consent for publication
principal investigator. We would like to thank Mr. Guy Elvis
Rowena and Mr. Aimable Ruhumuliza for their valuable Authors consented to the publication of their data.
support in the template conception, online survey, and data Availability of data
entry coordination. We would also like to thank the CBHI
district directors and CBHI section managers from different The survey questionnaire, the informed consent form, the
CBHI structures who have participated in the survey from datasets, and detailed data supporting the findings of the
the beginning up to the transmission of all data requested study are available and can be shared upon contact with
for the two FYs, 2011/2012 and 2012/2013. We are also the corresponding author.
grateful to Dr. Alexis Rulisa, the Head of the RSSB/CBHI
department, for his continuous availability and willingness References
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